Book suggestion

Gotta love Saturday mornings. I’m sitting here with my coffee, BP’s in Maryland on business, LP is playing an extremely violent Xbox game called "The Godfather" (I hear m-fer and other choice words every so often—not from my angel LP, of course, but from the game) and Nesta is happily playing with her pink straw.

On tap today is laundry. I’m also making LP go around the yard and pick up sticks and other stuff that’s blown around for the last month. He wants to stay all night with Eric, so I told him that if he did everything I asked of him this morning and afternoon with nary a peep or whine, maybe just maybe I’d let him.

Anyway, I got another BN order yesterday. In the carton was a sample package of Starbucks coffee. What arrived: Bleeding Hearts, a China Bayles herbal mystery by Susan Wittig Albert, the complete third season of "Columbo" (one of the best ever television detective characters) and a small, incredibly tasty book titled Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism by Bob Edwards. (I’m three quarters of the way through it already!) It’s part of the “Turning Points” book series published by John Wiley.
Watching the movie "Good Night and Good Luck" fueled my interest in Edward R. Murrow. What a wonderful journalist this man was. The book reprints some of his actual radio news reports from London during the Nazi bombings prior to American participation of WWII. He highlighted how the everyday Londoner was coping with the hailstorm of bombs. Very vivid first-person accounts. The news radio medium was very new back then and Murrow brought the war directly to the American public. After Pearl Harbor when we entered the war, Winston Churchill credited Murrow with educating the American public to Nazi horrors and with showing them they should be interested in what Europe was going through, even though (back then) Europe was so very very much removed from the life of the average American. His first hand account of his visit to the horror that was the concentration camp Buchenwald is extremely moving. $19.95 well spent for this slice of journalistic history.

Michael Buble

Verbie sent me one of those emails that ask you what your favorite this and that is. I completed it and passed it on to several of you. One question was "What CD are you listening to a lot." I had to confess to Michael Buble's (pronounced Booblay) It's Time.
If you don't know him, he's a Canadian crooner in the style of Harry Connick, Jr., Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin. His big hit is a song called "Home" but both of his CDs are filled with old time classics like "I've Got You Under My Skin" He even covered Van Morrison's classic "Moondance."
This is good driving-the-car music. Very soothing.

Evil Red Dot

Here’s the new Nesta story: A laser pointer.
The girl goes absolutely bonkers when LP or BP runs the red dot all over the carpet. Sometimes they run it so it appears to go down into the floor heater vent. The cat will just sit and stare at the vent in case the Evil Red Dot appears. She’s guarding her humans against the ERD. Last night I ran the ERD into her kitty condo, and she took a flying leap and landed inside it. Run the dot alongside the wall near the floor and make it disappear around a corner and she’ll take on her crouched, attack kitty stance mode and fly around the corner. She’s a funny cat. I’m interested to see what she does this summer if a lightning bug gets inside the house.

Not one flake

We were expecting a major snowstorm after midnight last night and of course LP just knew he wouldn't have school today. This morning, not one flake of snow on the ground. Needless to say it was Grumpyville around here this morning. But we are expecting one to three inches of snow sometime today.

As far as winter is concerned, it needs to Shit or Get Off the Pot (as my Grandma used to say.)

Have a perfectly pleasant day.

Busy Weekend

1. Got new tires for the Lexus

2. LP and I stayed Saturday night at my Mom’s. Ordered pizza and salad, washed her dishes, scrubbed her sink, cleaned her toilets, changed her broken wrist bandages and soaked her arm, and watered her houseplants. And yes, Schell, she had a martini.

3. Did some yard work today, but we might get snow overnight tomorrow.

4. Went to Menard’s with BP and bought some gutter downspouts and assorted accoutrements.

5. Did six loads of laundry.

6. Watched a taped biography on Food TV’s Ina “Barefoot Contessa” Garten.

7. Vacuumed the living room.

8. ohh-ohh . . . Meme, guess what? The cat learned something cute to do! I’ll detail it in the next update!

I’m tired. Oops, I forgot to mention that we bought and watched Good NIght and Good Luck. Terrific movie. I was impressed with Dubya, Rummy, and Ashcroft playing the part of Joseph McCarthy. Good job, fellas!