I’m not talking about the cat.
My brother got me the book “Marley & Me” for my birthday this year. I tore through it rather quickly. It was nice to read about a dog that was worse than any of the dogs I’ve owned (hard to believe, I know). Of course, the stories were also heartwarming and hilarious. Seeing that the book was about a dog’s life, the ending was, of course, sad. If you like dogs, you’ll probably like this book. If you don’t, you’ll probably want to skip it.
I finally got off my slacking butt and made my 3rd batch of wine for the year. I guess I have the weather to thank for this–it was too hot to go outside to work after supper. This is my 3rd of 5 kits for the year. I’ve never heard of this particular wine, but it sounds pretty good to me. Italian. Red. How can you go wrong with that? As I think I’ve mentioned before, I’ll probably make a 6th batch of wine this year due to my penchant for bottling two batches at a time. At this point, I’m not sure what I’ll make.
I guess I’ve wasted enough of this evening. Time to go outside.
The weather finally got nice. In fact, I think it might be a little too nice tomorrow. We already have plans to get out the slip n slide for Jacob. So much for getting anything done outside tomorrow afternoon. Yesterday was pretty decent, though, so I was able to plant the rest of my garden. Some creature already ate one of my cucumber plants. Argh.
It was pretty hot today, but we went to my parent’s for dinner, so I didn’t have to contend with the weather this afternoon. My brother’s birthday is in May and mine is in June, so we usually end up going to my parent’s Sunday of Memorial Day weekend in order to celebrate the two birthdays. As usual, we had a great meal and I got some nice gifts. After we got home, I sat around for a while and waited for it to cool off a little before I went outside to mulch the garden. Now, I’m sitting around waiting for Brian to get back from a short motorcycle jaunt and then the three of us are going to go outside and celebrate the official start of summer by lighting up the chiminea.
Brian’s manager at work is a bit of a film buff, so every once in a while he throws a DVD our way. Last night, it was Open Water. This was a very low budget movie ($30,000) shot by a husband and wife team over a few year period (as they had the money to finance it).
The movie was about this married couple who went on a scuba-diving trip. Due to a headcount mishap, they missed the boat (or so to speak) and ended up stranded in the middle of the ocean with a bunch of sharks.
I found the acting to be a bit stilted at the beginning, but it improved as the movie went on. The ending was absolutely perfect–it couldn’t have been written any better.
The movie wasn’t quite as good as the Margarita and black bean dip we consumed while watching it, but I’ll be thinking about this one for a while. That’s all I ask for in a movie–one that makes me think.
Brian has been trying to teach Jake how to ride his bike this spring. All of the hard work has finally paid off. This week, Jake was able to go quite a distance without any help from Dad. He still could use some practice using the brakes and turning, though. But, I guess he has the rest of the summer to work that out.