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SHADOW SHOT SUNDAY



Remnants of a Sand Castle [with a moat]. In your imagination, in the shadows of your mind, can you almost hear the clanking of the silversmith readying the knights shining armor for battle; hear the heavy thud of the draw bridge being lowered over the water for the army to go out and protect the king, mounted up on their war-horses? Can you almost picture the guards atop the turrets surveying the forests beyond for the enemy? ---









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SUNDAY'S SUMMARY

Where the heck did the past week go?!! It's Sunday, already? My goodness. Well, yesterday, we went and spent the day at the annual Navy Air Show on the base near Flour Bluff [between Corpus Christi and the island]. It's been years, I tellya, since we've been to one. I think the last time was about 15 years ago, in Tucson at Davis Monthan Airbase. Since it's a 100 year mark for the Naval Aviation, we thought we'd go see if there was anything done in a special way this year. There wasn't anything special. I really enjoyed the walking around the huge tarmac with all the planes and helicopters on review....some very different from the ones that are shown on the Air Force airbase!! But, thing is the winds were so dangerously high throughout most of the day, that a lot of the show was canceled and they 'rigged' up a lot of different stuff to keep us there...didn't work. Eventually the crowds dwindled. I have some photos, but they're still in the camera's chip. I need to get them uploaded. Most of the week was spent outdoors. Other than getting my posts ready for my blog, you wouldn't have found me inside the house much during the early part of the day. I pruned the pomegranate tree from the bottom up. There was quite a lot of root growth...shoots coming from the ground. As I said a few weeks ago, it's now budding. I think I counted 24 blossoms. Last year, the first year planted, there were three fruits. This year, if all goes well and the birds don't get to them before I do...we'll have a gold mine in bearing fruit. Considering it's only year two. A couple of our tomatoes are huge and both are turning color...a pale orange right now. As I like them on the 'green' side of ripeness, I'll be chowing down on the first one of the season in a few days!! Irene received her gift in the mail...she loved it. I can now tell you what I sent her. I found this most adorable salt and pepper shaker set. [she has a small collection] As her favorite movie of all time is Wizard of Oz, the set is of the Wicked Witch of the West and her Ruby Slippers...crushed by Dorothy's house. Irene was thrilled and sent me a text with the photo that I share here. Baseball season is in full swing. Poor Astros. Houston needs help. Seems the only one on that team worth his wage is Hunter Pence. Not to forget the Texas Rangers. Their standings' average is the highest in MLB. [top standing for the AL West =batting .875!!] Way to go. The long time rival with the American League, right now, with the series for the Yankees against the Red Sox, I'm watching. The other two teams of 'mine'....the Rockies [top in NL West!!!] and Diamondbacks...they're mediocre; next to bottom on the standings for the Western Division. Time will tell. I love this season. The farm team for Houston Astros here in town has begun playing. I think I'll try and convince Bud to take me to a game or two. I finally finished getting the house decorated for Easter. It's not much. I brought out my egg cups and placed a few plastic eggs and a couple of rabbits here and there. That's all. Oh and speaking of fruits and veggies and gardening....this is the peak of blackberry season, so I purchased some fresh pints and made a blackberry pie. It's delicious!!! One evening this past week, after dinner was complete and dishes were done, Bud and I finally sat down and watched Despicable Me. In so many ways, it was not at all what I expected. In fact, I think the movie title was misnamed. I feel the main character played by Steve Carell was supposed to be the 'despicable' one?!! Am I right? He was supposed to be the criminal mastermind of the whole story? But, throughout the movie I didn't 'see' any characteristics of him being all that nasty. In fact, I saw him as a scorned child with his flashbacks, and his sweet demeanor with the Minions and the adopted girls of his. The son of the banker, "V" was more vile. Completely wrong with the movie's title. Sweet movie, cute in so many places [the girls and the genetically altered Corn Pops™, the Minions, were sweet]...but still, all in all, not what I had pictured in my mind. Just a one time viewing movie. Oh, and it's my understanding that you can get a Minionator/translator app from Best Buy so you can know what the Corn Pops™ are saying!! My opinion still stands with this tho....it's a typical, redundant Hollywood flick with no variation in storyline.


poster graphic of NAS air show courtesy of NAS.