(August Break Day 5)
Tag: summer (page 10 of 14)
Getting ready, washing our apples…
passing a cottage garden
the “bunny tree”:
(August Break Day 4)
Peeked into a church on our walk today, one of my favorite things to do, and the sunshine was beautifully streaming in.
(August Break Day 3)
Fresh eggs and homemade jams were being sold at a house on our walk this morning…
(August Break Day 2)
We went on a walk this morning and came back to find this little fellow hiding behind a candlestick holder in the cottage. I don’t know where he will pop up next!
(August Break Day 1)
I’ve got my wellies on today, because it hasn’t stopped raining since about 4 this morning, when I was up watching it pour down.
It is nice though, to just have everything get refreshed, cool down a little and take a breather.
(Image by: Rifle Paper Co.)
I have been doing a little travelling on my own at the moment. One of the places I ended up going to, is a personal favourite of mine: Pittsburgh, PA.
I checked in on some family I have there, went to Soergel’s Farm one of my most cherished places to go and see. I am a farm girl myself and I feel it is truly important to support your local farmers. Eat with each harvest and taste the best of the season. I drank some apple cider, picked up a pie from their bakery counter and had my picture taken on the wheel of an old Amish buggy.
It was pretty hot while I was there visiting and one night after dinner we headed out for a drive and ended up going to Dairy Queen. There is nothing better than a Dairy Queen dipped cone. I prefer getting mine in a cup, that way you get more “dip”. I decided to get the cherry flavour, it matched my apron and is one of my favourites! It was delicious and definitely cooled me down.
I also had the chance to do a little antiquing. I went to a store that I had been dying to visit and boy, did I have fun! I must have spent 3 hours in there wandering around. I came back with a few surprises, one in particular! I think she will fit right in to our little home. I will be introducing you soon, but at the moment, she is getting over her jet lag…
Summer is a time to indulge in guilty pleasures. Be it eating dessert every day while on vacation, or going back for that second helping even though you wouldn’t normally, or sleeping in till noon…
Last Summer in the heat wave, when we could barely bring ourselves to get off the couch to get more ice water/sweet tea we started discussing old movies we watched when we were little. Some of these movies were true guilty pleasure movies, because they are so bad they are good!
There always seemed to be a slew of B-movies on, when I came home late at night from babysitting in the Summer and no matter how bad they were, I just couldn’t look away, I would watch them as I unwound from the night. Mr. Michie, an ocean away would also stay up late to watch “bad” movies when he was growing up. We kicked some titles back and forth and decided to get a few and watch them to share our teenager memories with each other.
Mr. Michie decided we should make a tradition of this and got the ball rolling this week by showing me: Fright Night. Now, this is a big thing for me, when he suggested this, as I don’t watch horror movies, I can take the old cheesey scary movies, but I don’t watch real horror, it just doesn’t do it for me. Lucky for me this was just a cheesey scary movie!
We sat in the dark, eating popcorn and watching this movie. The 80’s music was just to die for. It was too good. Chris Sarandon as a vampire? I couldn’t stop laughing when I first saw it, how could Prince Humperdinck be a vampire?
In looking the movie up we discovered that it had been remade and was coming out this fall. That seems to be a running theme for us, in that after I showed Mr. Michie the original Piranha film last year, we found out they were remaking it, of course we went, 3D glasses and all and had a whale (or should I say Piranha) of a time!
Mr. Michie also showed me Highlander last Summer. I don’t know how I could have missed out on this one? Scotsmen, Queen singing the theme music, Sean Connery! There can be only ONE! What is there not to like?
I thought that I would compile a list of some of our guilty pleasure movies (some aren’t guilty pleasures at all, in the sense that they aren’t bad, they are just movies that one of us was shocked to hear the other hadn’t seen). What are your memorable movies, the ones you love because they are so bad that they are good? Here is some of ours:
1. Critters
2. Piranha
3. The Monster Squad
4. Fright Night
5. Tremors
6. Mr. Boogedy (an old disney favorite of mine, though it used to scare my sister and I to death!)
7. The Canterville Ghost (the good one, with John Gielgud)
8. Return to Oz
9. The Last Starfighter
10. Highlander
As we neared the end of the school year this Summer, I decided to start putting together our Summer list. Just a few things that we wanted to do over the the coming weeks. We have each added in our own little things to the list as time has gone on and I decided to share a few snippets of it with you. Do you create a Summer list in your house?
1. Go to the Vintage Hemingway Fair in Southbank
2. See the Glamour of the Gods Exhibition
3. Start a crochet project-working on a scarf (✓ I have started working on it)
4. Watch The Goonies on a hot Summer night and eat lots of popcorn
5. Go to the BP Portrait Awards
6. Take a walk through the woods
7. Have plenty of picnics
8. Go to the movies to see Super 8
9. Pick a new cookie recipe out of the Betty Crocker Cooky Book to make
10. Read The Help (the first book on my Summer Reading List, it is by my bedside)
11. Lay in the sunshine and soak in its goodness
12. Take lots of pictures of our adventures
(Image: of Grace Kelly)
On Saturday we headed out with the Michie’s to the Vintage Fair in Southend. What a delightful day we had. GiGi & I spied the map as we were approaching and ran over to have a look. I knew for sure I wanted to go on the Carousel!
We looked around from stall to stall. GiGi was on the hunt for a new kerchief, but she couldn’t find one she liked. I, as you know, love collecting all things “foxy” and spotted a great little plastic treasure. It was a vintage fox toy from the 60’s. So, I am adding him to my collection.
We got very hot walking around, all my fur didn’t help, so, we decided it would be best if we went for a stroll. Jennifer and GiGi wanted to go to Laduree, so happily, we men obliged them. What a delightful event that was, I couldn’t wait to get through the door, I was licking my whiskers just thinking about it.
GiGi had an iced chocolate and I enjoyed 2 lemon & thyme and 1 vanilla macaroon. They were to die for. After that we headed over to the National Portrait Gallery to take in the BP Portrait Awards and then home on the late afternoon train. What a lovely day spent in good company!