Month: April 2015

Postcards from Louisana, Texas, and three from Pennsylvania.

Regular commenter Heather sent me a passel of postcards from her travels.  Here they are.

This is from the stopover in New Orleans where the Wolf Pack rode one of these carriages through the French Quarter.

Everyone’s favorite Pennsylvania town: Intercourse.    Heather also lists other dubious names in the area:  Bird-in-hand, Blue Ball, Paradise, Virginville, Smoketown and Mountville.

Here’s a pretty one from Texas.  This is where they celebrated L’s fourth birthday.

I do very much enjoy unusual recipe postcards.  Perhaps someday I will make myself a shoo-fly pie.  I notice that this recipe card makes two pies. That’s a lot of shoe-fly pie.

I love this incredibly long laundry line.  I wonder if they hang their unmentionables somewhere else?

Three sentence movie reviews: 12 Years a Slave

This movie is filled with so much violence, both overt and casual, that I had to distract myself with something else to do while I was watching it.  Excellent performances all around (though I found Mr. Pitt to be annoyingly distracting–how convenient that one of the producers turns up as the savior) .  This wasn’t easy to watch, but worthwhile.

Cost: free from library
Where watched: at home.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2013/twelve_years_a_slave.html

On the way to breakfast.

Here we have an example of how infill affects the neighborhood. In the foreground, we have two small cottages, typical of the street.  The two houses next door are infill, looming over their neighbors. You can also see one in the background.

Sometimes a lilac needs a little help from its next door neighbor.  The neighbor in question is a tall fir tree.

I love this re-do of a frame for an espalier.  New frame is made of 4x4s.  You can see the old 2×2 frame also.  The yard is so often about redoing.

Three sentence movie reviews: Agent Carter Season One

An excellent series that takes place in the post-war 1940s where Agent Peggy Carter has to fight not only crime, but sexism as she is one of the few OSS agents.  It was never explained to my exactly why a British citizen would be a member of the OSS, but that’s my only gripe about this.  And you get to enjoy a fine parade of 40s fashions.

Cost: I think Matt paid $3.00 for the first episode.  The rest we watched on Hulu.  Which has a lot of commercials.  Which was one of the reasons I stopped watching TV.
Where watched: at home with Matt.

poster from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3475734/

Two things found on the way to/from acupuncture.

I appreciate whatever designer came up with the repeating motif for this restaurant. 

This is the still-ugly lot where the house was torn down last year.  Someone has prettied the chain link fence up with some spring blooms and greenery.  I’m guessing this was done by the homeless people who frequent the stoop.  Thank you homeless people!

Things from the paper.

Holly explains to her mother why she could get A’s on her mid-term, but chooses not to.  This was my philosophy in high school also.  Although in college I did a one-eighty and spent a lot of time doing things.

I probably shouldn’t encourage Jeff Baker, but his opening sentences of this review made me laugh.

Later in the same movie review section, Jeff Baker has this call to action came at the end of the review for The Hunting Ground. Hear hear!!!

I enjoyed this picture of protesters because it was such a small number of people and also take a closer look at the woman on the right.

I’m pretty sure she’s taking a picture of the news photographer taking a picture of the protesters.