Trouble’s afoot

Bloody Hell.
It is a really warm day today.

Fortunately, our home is equipped with a swimming pool. Unfortunately, our winter cover did not do its job and consequently I have been forced to wage chemical warfare against the army of algae contained therein.

So far the algae is still winning.

As we are now firmly into mid-June, I will emerge victorious but I’ve got some work ahead of me.

Also due to the heat I’m sure, Izzy and puppy Millie are stir-crazy since they don’t want to go outside where all they do is hide in the shade and pant. Millie, the German Shepherd, tries her best to traumatise us all, but especially big sister Izzy. In this photo I can just imagine what she’s thinking, “She’s coming again, isn’t she..? Please make it stop…”

YouTube – Barbershopera – I Could Have Married Kate

YouTube – Barbershopera – I Could Have Married Kate.

The Movies

Have you tried Netflix yet? If not, I recommend that you do. I have spent far too much time watching shows and films that I likely wouldn’t otherwise have seen and it has been thoroughly enjoyable. Some of my favourites so far have been the BBC series ‘Jekyll’ and ‘MI-5’ (known in Britain as ‘Spooks’), and a little known crime movie ‘Dead Man Running’. At this very moment I am watching ‘The X-Files: I Want To Believe’, and I’m not sure where I stand on it. That’s the great thing about Netflix though, is you find absolute gems as well as the mediocre.

Additional Note: I have a little later on started watching ‘Doomsday’ and even just ten minutes in it is amazingly bloody and graphic. I haven’t decided if it’s excessive yet, only time will tell.

This past weekend my sister came up for the weekend and her, Mhar and I had a bit of a Harry Potter marathon, watching all of the six previous films in three days. We filled gaps in between movies by playing with the Xbox Kinect we purchased recently. We just have a few games for it at this point, “Kinect Adventures”, “Kinect Sports” and “Your Shape” and they are all good fun. We finished up the weekend by watching the new ‘Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Pt. 1’ before dropping our visitor back home. The most recent addition to the franchise was very well done and you hardly realize that it was two-and-a-half hours long. It certainly leaves you wanting more, annoyingly ending the movie at a critical juncture like we all knew it was going to. If you liked the others, and particularly the more recent darker tone to them, then you will certainly enjoy this one.

Harvest time!

So today was the first day of our pick up for local foods. Since Lyle is at work starting at 4:30, I had the duty of popping to the local farm to pick it all up.

It was set up like a small farmers market with stuff all in bins, and you would grab a “bundle” or some of it had pounds attached to it, but you could pick which ones you wanted.

We have:

• 1 head lettuce
• 1 bag spinach
• 1 set turnips/greens
• 1 celeriac
• onions
• garlic
• potatoes
• carrots
• squash
• apples
• cherry tomatoes
• 1 bundle rosemary.

Mmmm. Sooo yummy!