Gary: Your dogs are beautiful! My dogs will try to eat the vacuum. The other day my male rottie attacked our ironing board. It squeaks when opening or closing. He doesn't like that sound. I was closing it and he grabbed it and pulled it across the room. Then he got scared of it and ran away.
Slashni: I am so sorry about the coach passing. He was so young.
Operator: I watched the video..it was funny! Did you watch the one with the bird dancing? FUNNY!
I've been trying to get DH to go to Slumdog Millionaire with me since it came out. We've been to the James Bond movie since (the timing didn't work out with a movie for the teenagers at the same time) and now he keeps saying he'd just as soon see it on DVD at home and not go to the theater. And here it's nominated for best picture of the year. It will be in the theater forever and take forever to get to DVD. I may just have to go see it without him.
Angie plays bells today at late service so have about 3 hours before we go.
HATTIE I have one chicken dog....she hides when the vacumm comes out, hid behind the recliner most of last week because Angie was doing scary stuff like painting the bedroom. If I am carrying a ladder from the yard to my truck she books it into the house....now the other one tries to climb it while I carry it. Grab a shovel and the one runs....the other helps dig the hole.
WEB, Angie saw Slumdog and loved it. We haven't been to a movie together in a long time. She usually goes with the daughter's....I watch the game.
Gee, I am way behind again. (thanks everyone for the kind words, by the way!)
Gary: Love the killer dogs. They are beautiful! You must feel very SAFE with that security system! I know I'm not messin' with you anymore!
Web, I was just watching CBS Sunday Morning and they showed where that film was shot and they talked to the residents there. Amazing area. While it is tough to see the level of poverty, they really have quite a community there. The wealthy people of India weren't impressed by the movie because it only showed the poverty in India and made them look like a "developing" country... well, maybe if you helped those people....
I would have liked to have seen Slumdog last week, but I got to see Underworld, Rise of the Lycons with DD instead. Oh well, as long as we did something together.
Came home from taking my Mom to lunch and smelled smoke. It's been a little cool so I assumed it was from people trying to have the last fireplace fire this year. Went in the house for about an hour. Heard sirens but thought they were far off. I even commented that I couldn't remember ever hearing so many sirens.
Big excitement in the neighborhood. Our home backs up to a water management area. It's been so dry (reservoir at 10% of desired minimum) there's no water in the water management area, just dry vegetation. There is so much brush and so many trees that we can't see into it (let alone across it) ever - even now when there are the fewest leaves on the trees.
A neighbor knocked on the door. When we came outside, there were 6-8 fire vehicles on our street, a forestry earth mover vehicle on a trailer, smoke coming up from the brush about 30 yards behind our house, and a neighbor back there with a water house. Apparently there were fires all through the dry brush in the conservation area. There are still at least three firemen back there spraying down the area behind our house. They don't think there's danger to the homes. We should be good as long as the fire doesn't go underground. We've got the backyard sprinklers going, just in case.
Had a Fox News videographer in the neighborhood, so we'll see if there's any coverage on the news tonight. I got some good pictures and will see if I can post one or two after DH gets through uploading them. I haven't been real successful posting pics in the past though.
Thanks. My next door neighbors about had a heart attack when they turned the corner and saw all the trucks in front of THEIR house with the hose running down between the houses!
They're still back there hosing it down. (Firemen, not the neighbors)
