Pretty fall colors

qwendy and I love a good high-speed chase.  We’re glued to the TV when one starts and like to stay to the bitter end!  The other day qwendy was driving home from work and heard on the news there was one happening.  She called me immediately and I got the feed from the internet and gave her the blow by blow.  Until I slammed the phone down and went to the window to watch it pass right by my building!  He went zooming by with 5 cop cars chasing him.  Such excitement!!

In other news, I’ve been watching The Owl Box the past couple of days.  A guy put a nesting box in his yard and installed cameras.  He said it took a few years but he finally got a barn owl nesting.  Her name is Molly and her mate is McGee; as of this posing 4 owlets have hatched and we’re still waiting on another.  It should hatch, literally, any minute now.

Rabbit is poultry?

Spring is in the air, can you smell it?

I’ve been working on decorating…I’m not really a decorator so it’s a bit of a stretch…  I’ve been working on my bedroom.

New dresser and somewhere for me to hang my artwork

Floating shelves I just put up

I enjoy all kinds of cultural events; movies, theater, concerts, sports, etc.  So when I was invited to see Kiss Me Kate at The Glendale Center Theater last Saturday I agreed.  I sometimes forget that I don’t always like productions at GCT…not because they aren’t good–they always are (okay, usually are)–but because producers/directors there do not know how to edit.  The movie version is only 110 minutes for goodness sake.

At two-and-a-half hours I started to get a little antsy, and bits that were clearly funny became bothersome.  At the three hour mark I wanted to start yelling, “yeah, yeah, we get it…wrap it UP already!!!”  I think the whole production was three hours and fifteen minutes and if you ask me, that is too long.  At that point I think the production so full of themselves that they’re just on stage to be on stage.  It’s a little ridiculous.  Wait…check that; in my opinion, it’s a LOT ridiculous!  I accept that others may disagree, but I think it’s excessive!

We arrived a little later than we usually like because I needed to stop at the mall to get some tennis shoes, which could have been very quick, but…well…it wasn’t (I had a little fright over the price).  Aaaaaaanywho…the point of that is, we rushed to get to the theater before the show started so I was warm from rushing around.  My two friends used the bathroom while I sat down and fanned myself with the program and held the seats.  Now, I don’t really like strangers, I don’t go out of my way to talk to them and I’m not particularly fond of them talking to me, this is the conversation that took place:

cimblog(tm): [fanning]
stranger (a woman of about 70): Does that really help?
cimblog(tm): [taken back] Um, it seems to.
stranger: I just find it distracting.
cimblog(tm): [annoyed] Well, it makes me feel better. [cimblog(tm) fans wildly]

I then made elljaypea sit next to the strange stranger.

Later that evening Strange Stranger popped some chewing gum in and proceeded to smack it loudly for a good 20 minutes.

Even later that evening Strange Stranger loudly shouted at the man in front of her.  We missed what she said exactly, but she was definitely scolding someone.

Yet later that evening (did I mention how LONG this show was?!) the woman in front of us whooped and hollered for a number she particularly enjoyed.  Strange Stranger shot daggers out of her eyes that we had to dodge!

Every time anyone did something she did not approve of she would give them a harsh look.

At the end of the show the woman in front of us was, again, whooping and hollering and Strange Stranger’s face kept contorting until she couldn’t take it another second and she hollered to this woman, “Could you stop doing that, it’s VERY ANNOYING.”  My friends and I did what any rational person in the theater would have done at that point…We whooped and hollered and whistled as loud as we could.

I love taking pictures on my Sunday walk.  I love this picture!