Snowy Puzzle

The day I started this puzzle, it snowed. Not a huge snow, just enough to cover the ground. No problem with electricity or heat or water pipes. Just a nice, pleasant snow. Today, a few days later, it's bright sunny and almost warm.

This is the third puzzle I've done this year. I should be spending the time they take in the sewing room. I just don't seem to be in the mood to sew lately. I'll get it back. Just needed a break.

At the recommendation of a friend, I started watching "Last Tango in Halifax" last night. Got through three episodes. At first I didn't think I would like it. I'm not an huge fan of British entertaiment, "Downton Abbey" notwithstanding. Also Monty Python. But I was pretty quickly hooked on Halifax. I have to use the closed captions, though. Yorkshire accents aren't easily understood, at least not for me.

I once met a man, through a friend, who lived in Yorkshire. He visited the United States several times a year. He attempted to "court" me, but I told him that the communication problem was just too big. It would never work. We wouldn't always have my friend around to translate. (This was several years before I married Vann.)

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On 02/25/2021, Barbara Anne said ...

Love the puzzle and will consider giving "Last Tango in Halifax" a try although I don't much like using subtitles. Have you watched "The Yorkshire Vet" programs? I can understand those accents fairly well.
Am late reading your post because the box that houses our Verizon service died Tuesday evening and the tech came today to replace it. It was so very odd to live life without email or the internet for 36 hours but I got a table runner top made.

Hugs!

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On 03/02/2021, Trudy Abernathy-Neill said ...

Enjoying seeing your puzzles, Susan. I had an uncle from Yorkshire, Uncle Alec and grew up hearing the lilt in his voice. When we lived in England and drove up to and thru Yorkshire, I felt quite at home. The new version of "All Creatures Great and Small" on Pbs is very good and already finished for the first season. Second season is in the works, Barbara! Been busy here handsewing a simple 9 patch quilt for my granddaughter...some days I get more done on it than others but moving right along on it. Take care and welcome March with Spring soon here.
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A Birthday Sunday

Yesterday was daughter Andy's birthday. We had a very scaled-down celebration, but it was still fun. Andy came over and we had her traditional favorite, spaghetti with my meat sauce, salad, and rolls. Cupcakes and brownies for dessert. Sister Ramey, who would normally have been in on the fun, called to say Happy Birthday.

After lunch, Andy and I settled in to watch a movie while Jesse went to his room to do whatever he does there. We watched "Premonition" with one of my faves, Sandra Bullock. I've always thought that Sandra and Andy look enough alike to be sisters. Andy says she doesn't see it, but I do.

Andy

Sandra

Anyhoo, they're both beautiful. The movie, however, left us both a little nonplussed. It's about a woman who has premonitions of her husband's death in an automobile accident. It switches back and forth so many times between premonition and reality that, in the end, we weren't quite sure if the husband was dead or alive.

I'd like to sew today. But I would also like to read. And I have a jigsaw puzzle in process. A snow scene. So it remains to be decided what I'll spend the day doing. I'm going to make a shepherd's pie for dinner, requested by Jesse.

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On 02/22/2021, Barbara Anne said ...

A belated Happy Birthday to Andy! Her birthday dinner menu sounds delicious and methinks that movie isn't one for me.

Like you, I see the resemblance between Andy and Sandra. Both are beautiful

Hope you enjoy the many options that are before you in how to best spend your day (after the meat is thawed!). I'll be continuing the reorganizing of my sewing room, so heaven help me.

Hugs!

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On 02/22/2021, Denise in PA said ...

Happy Birthday, Andy! She is very beautiful...and looks so very much like you (also beautiful!) I see the resemblance to SB also. o:)
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Book Reviews

For those who follow my book reviews, I've added the new list for 2021 and posted the books I've read so far this year. See left sidebar.

 

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On 02/09/2021, Barbara Anne said ...

Thanks!

Hugs :)
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TA DA!

The mystery puzzle is finally finished. It was a challenge, but quite enjoyable. I don't think it would taken so long to finish, but I could sit at the puzzle table for only short periods before my back pain demanded that I recline on the couch.

I finally was able to get my first Covid vaccine shot on Thursday. The whole process from drive up to drive away took less than 20 minutes, and I never got out of my car. It would have been shorter, but they were holding people for observation for 15 minutes after the vaccination to make sure you didn't have any adverse reactions. I didn't. I did have a lot of pain and fatigue that afternoon and evening. Didn't sleep much. But that probably had nothing to do with the vaccination. It's certainly not the first time that has happened.

I'll get a call or an email later telling me when I'm to come back for the second shot in about three weeks.

I haven't done any sewing this week. I just haven't felt up to it. In fact, I haven't even been up the stairs (where my sewing room is located) all week. Climbing stairs is no fun these days.

I'm making shepherd's pie for our Super Bowl supper this evening. I don't think I'll be watching the game. I know nothing about either one of the teams. I probably wouldn't know Tom Brady if I met him on the sidewalk. I've never been an NFL fan. In fact, the only football I've ever followed is college football, and I've pretty much narrowed that down in the last few years to just Alabama and whoever plays for the championship games.

I have always enjoyed the Super Bowl commercials (about the only time I can say I like commercials), especially the Budweiser ads. But I've heard Budweiser want be taking part this year. So I'll probably just continue streaming season 3 of "The Sinner" on Netflix.

If you haven't had a chance to watch "The Dig" (Netflix), I can highly recommend it. I think it and "The Queen's Gambit" (also Netflix) are the best movies I've seen in quite a while.

I'm off to the kitchen to prepare the ingredients for our shepherd's pie. It takes a while these days.

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On 02/08/2021, Bonnie said ...

I enjoyed both of those movies, as well. "The Dig" was so understated for such a remarkable, history-changing discovery.
Bonnie in Minneapolis

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On 02/09/2021, Barbara Anne said ...

What a lovely and charming puzzle and well done in finishing it. Sorry your back has limited the time you could work on it.

I loved The Dig and will certainly watch The Queen's Gambit soon. We recently watched our DVDs of the old Walter Matthau and the 1991 movie "The Commitments".

Hugs!

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On 02/09/2021, Barbara Anne said ...

Oops! The Walter Matthau movie is Hopscotch.

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On 02/10/2021, Wendy Schwerin said ...

...also check out "The English Game." Ranks up there with "Queen's Gambit" and "the Dig."
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