Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
tv

dark

If you like time-travel, alternate worlds, and a complicated plot, this one is for you. It is an amazing German-language series on Netflix, and if you watch it, I highly recommend tuning the audio to German and turning on the subtitles. The audio defaults to overdubbed English and I found this to be highly distracting.

I took three years of German in high school and was pleased to recognize some of the words and phrases on my own. “Was ist das?” kept coming up in the conversation. Was ist das, indeed.

Spoiler alert: if you are anything like me, you might want to read this article when you’re done with the series. It gives a great summary and fills in a couple of the blanks. I might need to watch this one again.

My rating: 4.5/5

movies

doctor sleep (movie)

I watched this one last night. It was ok. I can’t remember if I liked it more or less than the book, but it’s definitely not one of my favorite adaptations.

My rating: 3/5

do-it-yourself, gardening & landscaping

it’s happening

The sun is setting at 8pm today! This is really hampering my evening outdoors progress. I’m in the middle of a bunch of projects (patching the other side porch, caulking windows, planting grass in the dog area, plus my usual gardening and landscaping tasks). Oh well, if I don’t get done with everything, there’s always next year.

I have some real concerns about the side porch. The block and brick has developed some significant cracks/gaps over time. My goal this year is to fill the cracks and monitor any additional gaps because I’m not sure how quickly things are happening. I don’t even know who could fix something like this, assuming it can even be fixed, but I guess that’s a problem for the future. I mean, I’ve read stuff about hiring structural engineers and other crazy things, but I’ll tear the damned thing down before I spend all of that money.

It’s also harvest time, so I’ve started canning each week. Luckily I stocked up on canning lids for the year when the pandemic hit because they are apparently in short supply. Some of the things that haven’t been available are surprising. I guess canning lids shouldn’t be all that surprising, but are that many people learning how to can or is the canners who are hoarding? I mean, canning is not that common of a thing to do.

So, in case you’ve been wondering what I’ve been doing, this is it.

do-it-yourself, gardening & landscaping

in a rush

In the slowest moving year ever, how is it the middle of August already? I’ve been spending the evenings and weekends trying to tackle some outside (both yard and house) projects. Hopefully we’ll have a nice September so I can continue working for a bit. Of course, there won’t be as much daylight next month…

movies

the irishman

This movie has been in my queue for a long time, mostly because it clocked in at 3.5 hours. Who has time for that? But, I bit the bullet the other day and started watching it. It took me 4 days to complete. Anyway, it was basically a mob movie that tied in with Jimmy Hoffa’s story (and gave one possible conclusion to his death). Every Italian actor (and some not-so-Italian-actors) was in this film (DeNiro, Pacino, Pesci, Romano, etc.). Also, it was directed by Martin Scorsese, who is one of my favorites.

My rating 3.5/5