At The Lunch Table

At the lunch table today, Mom was telling how someone had dropped their phone and it shattered the screen. 

  "He dropped it on the asphalt"...la-de-da-de-da....  I was struggling to keep a straight face because I had heard the 'ass's fault' joke before.

  Then Joni (who hadn't been listening) pipped up, "Who's fault was it?"

  Spiffy replies, "Nobody's.  He dropped it on the asphalt!"

It was too much.  I started choking with laughter and ran to the bathroom where I laughed until I cried.  It was almost as funny as the thought of someone standing in the arctic preaching a sermon to penguins.

Favorite Five

For the last few days I have been reading The Silmarillion for the first time.  So today's quotes are going to be five (I have closer to five hundred) of my favorite from it.


  A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finwë; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin.


  Finrod was with Turgon, his friend; but Galadriel, the only woman of the Noldor to stand that day tall and valiant among the contending princes, was eager to be gone.  No oaths she swore, but the words of Fëanor concerning Middle-earth had kindled in her heart, for she yearned to see the wide unguarded lands and to rule there a realm of her own will.


  The fire of their hearts was young, and led by Fingolfin and his sons, and by Finrod and Galadriel, they dared to pass into the bitterest North; and finding no other way they endured at last the terror of the Helcaraxë and the cruel hills of ice.


  For Maedhros begged forgiveness for the desertion in Araman; and he waived his claim to kingship over all the Noldor, saying to Fingolfin: "If there lay no grievance between us, lord, still the kingship would rightly come to you, the eldest here of the house of Finwë, and not the least wise."


  Melian said nothing to him at that time, but afterwards she said to Galadriel: "Now the world runs on swiftly to great tidings.  And one of Men, even of Bëor's house, shall indeed come, and the Girdle of Melian shall not restrain him, for doom greater than my power shall send him; and the songs that shall spring from that coming shall endure when all Middle-earth is changed."

Guys, this is a quite different Galadriel than the one that we know from Lord of the Rings.  This proud Noldorian princess is not the wise, gentle Lady of Lorien who we are used to!  And she was there from the beginning.  She lived with Thingol and Melian, she watched Lúthien grow up, she was there when Lúthien fell in love with a mortal, she saw the grief it caused Melian, she KNOWS!!!  There is a reason that Arwen was Galadriel's granddaughter, because she alone knows how is has to be.  And she isn't only Elrond's mother-in-law, she is also his cousin by marriage because Nimloth, Dior's wife, is a cousin of Celeborn's, so Aragorn is actually blood related to Celeborn.

So yeah, in case you can't tell, I am completely adoring this book and I can't go above a few chapters without telling Mel once again how amazing Tolkien was!!!!  And no it doesn't annoy her because she did the same thing to me when she was reading it!!!

   

Movies I Watched In February 2016

Titles with nothing before them I watched for the first time.

Titles with ** before them are re-watches.

Titles with # before them I watched with my little siblings.

Kate & Leopold

I thought that this movie would be kind of dumb, but it turned out to be fairly good.  Hugh Jackman is a brilliant actor and he sure can ride a horse!!

The Andy Griffith Show ~ 4 eps

I watched this while crazily knitting and crocheting for my niece.

** The Hunters

I completely adore this movie.  It has Robbie Amell in it and the way Robbie's character goes back and forth with his little brother is too funny!!!

Splash Splash Love

An adorable short drama that Mom, Mel and I watched for Valentine's Day.  You can read more about it HERE.

** You're Beautiful ~ ep 16

This drama is hilarious and I re-watched the last episode to relax after grocery shopping.  I had forgotten how funny Jeremy was, and how many times per episode Tae kyung screwed up his face to look like this:

** Leap Year

I couldn't resist watching this movie on Leap Day.  Even though the whole 'proposing to your boyfriend' tradition (imo) is like Declan says, "The stupidest thing I ever heard of!"

Healer ~ 11 eps

No, I didn't watch all 11 episodes right in a row.  Mom and Mel would never let me do that unless I was sick or injured or something.  This drama is killing me though!!  It has such amazing characters and acting and I just completely adore this drama!!!  And yes, MB, I know what you are thinking as you read this!!

So long folks!!  Thanks for reading!

Books I Read In February 2016

Titles that have nothing before them are books that I read for the first time.

Titles with this ** before them, are books that I re-read.

 Titles with # before them, are books that I read out loud to my little siblings.

** Naya Nuki by Kenneth Thomasma

** Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Widow of Larkspur Inn by Lawana Blackwell

Tea With Emma by Diane Moody

Mayfair Maiden by Lawana Blackwell

** Water Princess, Fire Prince by Kendra E. Ardnek

**The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

** A Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis

** Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis

Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis

Her Prairie Knight by B. M. Bower

Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch by Eleanor Porter

The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge by Margaret Vandercook

The Ranch Girl's Pot of Gold by Margaret Vandercook

The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis

The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis

Two Little Pilgrims Progress by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Young Vigilantes by Samuel Adams Drake

Rose of Prophecy by Hope Ann

# ** Boy Scouts in the Saddle by Robert Shaler

Leap Day

  Happy Leap Day folks!!  Have you seen today's Google Doodle?  It is perfectly adorable!!  Although it is only the last day of February, it is already feeling like spring here!  Most of the snow is gone and the robins are back.  I am waiting for it to dry up a bit before digging out and weeding the Rhubarb beds.  I am hoping for a big crop of Rhubarb this year because you can make so many delicious things with it.
   Since it is Leap Day, I am going to watch Leap Year tonight.  I know that it is rather cheesy and has a few major mess ups, but it is still amusing.
   I am also counting down the hours until I can watch episode 14 of Healer tomorrow night.  I am currently bleeding all over the place because at the end of episode 13 (last night) my second favorite guy was poisoned and I don't think that he lives.  It is sooooo sad!!  Especially how his death is going to hurt the Hero. 
  I know that this has been a really rambling post, but what did/are you all doing for Leap Day?

Favorite Five

This week I am going to post five of my favorite quotes from Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  The book.


  "It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy.  "It's you.  We shan't meet you there.  And how can we live, never meeting you?"


  "Caspian, dear," said Lucy.  "You knew that we'd have to go back to our own world sooner or later."
"Yes," said Caspian with a sob, "but this is sooner."


  Lucy leaned her head on the edge of the fighting top and whispered, "Aslan, Aslan, if ever you loved us at all, send us help now."  The darkness did not grow any less, but she began to feel a little - a very, very little - better.  "After all, nothing has really happened to us yet," she thought.


  But know one except Lucy knew that as it circled the it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.


  "That's alright," said Edmund.  "Between ourselves, you haven't been as bad as I was on my first trip to Narnia.  You were only and ass, but I was a traitor."


  Then someone else, whose face was vaguely familiar, had slipped an arm under her from the other side.  There was a lot of shouting going on from the ship, heads crowding together above the bulworks, ropes being thrown.  Edmund and the stranger were fastening ropes around her.

                         ~                                 

  Last of all came the stranger - a golden-headed boy some years older then herself.
"Ca - Ca - Caspian!" gasped Lucy as soon as she had breath enough.

Books I Turn To: When I Want A Light, Amusing Read

The other day I was reading a story, and I thought that I would share with you all, a list of books that I turn to when I want a light amusing read.  

All books in B.M. Bower's The Flying U Ranch series.
Daddy Long Legs and
Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
Aunt Crete's Emancipation by Grace Livingston Hill
A Cathedral Courtship by Kate Douglas Wiggins
Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Wiggins
The Railway Children by E. Nesbitt
The Range Dwellers by B.M. Bower  (Romeo & Juliet on a 1930's Montana cattle ranch)
A Soldier's Daughter by G.A. Henty
Rustler Roundup by Louis L'Amour
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
The Golden Stallion series by Rutherford Montgomery
Her Prairie Knight by B. M. Bower
And pretty much any Love Inspired.

Note:  This is not all of the books that I turn too, but it is a good portion of them.  I hope that they may help you all.  So long!

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