Archive for July, 2011

How to Train Your Dragon

At he behest of my college age daughter, I watched this movie the other night — another cutsie animated movie appealing to kids.  Well, I must say, I thoroughly enjoyed it!  Yes, it was cute…and animated…but it was a good story! The setting is viking land and the vikings are fierce fighting people so they [...]

First Real Job

My daughter got her first real job this summer.  She has worked here and there at temp jobs, but this is her first REAL job.  She is a server at a local restaurant.  She has never been a server before, so we were all surprised she was hired with no experience at such a busy [...]

Some Like it Hot!

I’m sure you’re all aware of the Eastern 2/3 of the United States being under a record heat wave.  Well, Central PA is no exception.  Thursday was over 100 degrees and  Friday set a new record of 103.  However, it was really 107 at my house.  The last time we had temperatures like this was [...]

Pacific (the movie)

I just finished watching PACIFIC, the HBO miniseries produced by Tom Hanks. What an epic! The special effects are great! It is rather graphic, but to me, that adds to the reality of the situation. I liked that it showed some of the Japanese as people, not just the enemy. I’m sure it did depict [...]

The Last Harry Potter Movie

Well, the last Harry Potter movie is in theaters now.  What will we all do next?  I haven’t read the books and I haven’t seen the movies, but my kids have read and re-read the books many times.  And of course they have watched the movies many times.  It’s hard to believe the first Harry [...]

Learning how to work online

I’m really excited about my new venture!  I’ve been playing around with earning money online for a number of years now.  I heard that was the way to make lots of money FAST!  Everyone is doing it!  Well, I know nothing about computers and am really not good at making them do what I want.  [...]

Exciting Moonlight Sail

Welcome to my blog! I want to tell you about my exciting weekend… I was invited to go sailing on a MOONLIGHT cruise on my friend’s 31 foot sailboat. We sailed across the Chesapeake Bay from Middle River to Tolchester, where we met up with others from our sailing group. We enjoyed socializing while slaking [...]

Rock Climbing With the Dogs

We have three dogs — a black lab named Misty, a German sheperd named Bandit, and a little terrier mix named Scruffy.  Misty is loving and easy going,  Bandit is afraid of everything and everyone, and Scruffy attacks everything and is suspicious of everyone.  Since Misty loves the water and the other two hate it, we [...]