Soul Surfer

A couple weeks ago we had a 2 for 1 movie pass so went to see "Paul".  It was a funny movie and could have been very good, but why does Hollywood think that movies are better when there's lots of swearing and leud sexual comments in it???? 

We still had another 2 for 1 pass which will expire tomorrow and since the Canucks are playing; and we can't miss the game, so we decided to go to the movies tonight.  We opted to see "Soul Surfer".  What a great movie!!!  Based on a true story of a teenager who loses her arm to a shark while surfing and how she deals with it and makes a comeback to the surfing that she loves so much.  Guess what???...no swearing, no great sex scenes...just a very heartfelt story!  We were at the early show so there was only one other family of four in the theater...when we were camping on the weekend there 8 of us in our daughter and son-in-law's trailer watching a movie, and again the next day watching the hockey game...quite a difference!

Happy Easter Everyone

Hope everyone is having a great Easter Sunday.  We're at Cultus Lake.  Our daughter, son-in-law and grandkids are parked a couple sites away from us so we've been spending some quality time with them...it's been great!  Weather has been great the until this afternoon when it started to rain...but it's not raining that hard.  We will get together tonight and have Easter dinner together.

Nature's Remedy...Chicken Soup

There's been so many colds going around and we've both been feeling sluggish and not up to par lately so the other day I took a stewing chicken out of the freezer and made a big pot of chicken broth, then used the meat to make chicken chow mein, then put some meat in the broth along with some veggies and maccaroni...soup and chow mein was supper last night.  Tonight I took the rest of the chicken, some onions and celery and cooked that up in alfredo sauce and served it on noodles...yummy!  The only problem with all this cooking is the MESS IT MAKES!!!  I've washed more pots and pans in the last couple of days!!!  But at least I've got enough so I don't have to do much cooking for a couple more days!

One of the motion sensors on our alarm system has been giving off false signals.  This invariably happens when we're away and our daughter has to come down and check things out.  I finally got around to contacting the alarm company and today the technician came down and replaced all three motion sensors...hopefully they'll work properly now!

It was sure nice to see the sun today.  B even cut the grass yesterday and today for the first time this year.

Where are you???

No, I didn't drop off the face of the earth!  After the episode with the alarm system and the hot water tank we took the trailer and left town.  We were away for a couple of days when Japan was hit with the earthquake and there were tsumani warnings for the coast here.  We were on our way to Seaside, Oregon so I ended up phoning the park to see if they were still operational...they were, so we went and met our friends R&F there.  For a week we got to do all sorts of touristy things.  There was no damage there from the tsumaini.  We had a great time.  From there we went to La Conner and met up with our daughter, son-in-law and 4 grandkids...the kids were on Spring break.  Came home on the Monday and our youngest granddaughter's Spring break was for 2 weeks so we ended up daycaring her Tues, Wed & Thurs.  That was so much fun!  Her and I played card games and read stories and looked up things in the dictionary, encyclopedia and on the globe.  Today our son was coming over and we were going to work on income tax but my aunt and uncle are in town so I decided to make lunch for all of us and Mom.  Had a lovely visit then tackled the income tax...almost got it finished!

Quiet, relaxing weekend???

Yesterday when I was cooking supper the smoke detector went off...and I wasn't even burning anything!!!  We opened doors and windows and were busy fanning it, but it still wouldn't stop.  So... it's squawking away, the microwave is beeping and the alarm system (our smoke detectors are monitored) goes off, so I punch the code in for that.  Finally got everything quiet when the phone rings...it's the monitoring station letting us know they'd called the fire department.  I got them to cancel that, which they did in a matter of 30 seconds.  Next thing we know the fire truck is in front of the house so we go out to talk to them...apparently they have to respond once they get the call...even if they get a call cancelling...I think they were bored...then the fireman very smuggly asked me if supper was ruined!!!  On my "to do" list for Monday is phone tech support and see why that fire detector is so sensitive.

This morning B had his shower, then I had mine.  I sat down for a bit and heard a funny whooshing sound.  Is that water running?...no sounds funny...looked around and discovered it was our hot water tank...it had sprung a leak.  Quickly called B and we shut of the water and pilot light.  Thankfully the last time our water tank went we had a 5" deep pan built for under the tank and it drains outside.  It wouldn't hold all the water in the tank, but it caught enough that we didn't have a mop up job to do!  Thank you for that!!!!  "Call a plumber" is now added to Monday's "to do" list.

After we got home from church, we drained the hot water tank then decided to see if we could do something with the smoke detectors...how do you get those covers off???  B also looked at the one downstairs and couldn't figure it out.  Ringggg...it's the phone....the montering company phoned to tell me that they're noticing some "irregularities" with our smoke detectors.  She couldn't give me much info so I asked if Tech Support was working today.  She transferred me, so now someone is coming down on Wednesday to check out the smoke detectors.

Ken Follett's Fall of Giants

I've read "Pillars of the Earth" and "World Without End" and really enjoyed them so when #1 daughter gave her Dad "Fall of Giants" for Chritmas, I was looking forward to reading it. I started it when we were down at Mt. Vernon (I do most of my reading when we're away and not too much when I'm at home). I finished it tonight. It was good. I'm not a very "political" type of person but Ken Follett has a way of intertwining historical and political events with fiction to make the book more readable. Now I can't wait till his next one comes out. I have a hard time putting a good book down so I must say I'm glad to have finished reading it...now maybe I can get some work done!!!

The King's Speech

I really like Fiber 1 cereal so when it came on sale last month I bought 3 boxes. Inside the box was printed a free admission colupon to the Cineplex Theater. Last night, armed with two of our coupons we went to the Cineplex and said we wanted to see "The King's Speech". No problem, they took our coupons and gave us 2 tickets!! A free show...WOW!!!

I found the film rather interesting. The whole time I was watching I kept reminding myself who was who and how they are related to the present Royal family. I had never heard before that King George VI had a stuttering problem so when I came home I looked it up in the encyclopedia (I know, I'm old fashioned, but that's how I was taught!). I was specifically looking for reference to the stuttering and to how he died...I do remember he died quite young and that Princess Elizabeth became Queen, but there wasn't much info in the encyclopedia...so now I'm going to look it up on the internet and see what I find.