Last night The Wife and I went to see “The Hobbit, Battle of the Five Armies”.
It was quite good, I need to go re-read the book to check the facts. The third quarter of the movie, I didn’t really remember precisely.
And when the dragon was killed, in the book, the arrow went completely inside the dragon, feathers and all. Didn’t happen in the movie, there was a bit poking out.
But it was very good.
Glad it’s Thursday. Tomorrow’s Friday.
YeeeHaa!
A few weeks ago, I won one of Penelope Marzec’s giveaways, a book and a tote bag! We have been blog buddies for a long time. As I always say: “Blogging is for finding new friends, Facebook is for finding old ones.”
I was very excited to receive her package yesterday! In the giveaway, Penelope said she would send the book of my choice (by her, of course) and I said I wanted her to choose for me. She chose the ‘The Pirates Wraith‘, about a modern day woman who gets strick by lightning and wakes up back in Pirate Days! It sounds like a book I am going to enjoy and an an exceptional beach read!
The bag is very nice too, and very heavy duty material and a velcro closure. We use these bags in The Cayman Islands for groceries as the grocery store charges for each plastic bag. Even though when my wife took the above photo and said the bag looked “Just my speed”, I’m going to give it to her. She likes using a bag like this to go to the beach, and this is by far the best one out of all we have!
Thank you again Penelope!
Have a great Wednesday!
Well, here we are on a Monday. After months of drought, the forces that be chose my vacation to make it rain.
I read some books, Orange Is The New Black, (not like the tv series). I read the Divergent trilogy/ the first two books were good, the third, had to put it down.
It’s cloudy and thundery right now. It’ll get sunny again when I go back to work.
After my heavily political posts for the last two days, I think it’s time to lighten up with a simple photo post. Here’s a couple pictures of a couple birds that I took when I went to see my Wife at lunch yesterday.
We got some new bird books, I could probably look them up and find the type.
Nah!
Have a happy hump day!
I read this book in its entirety yesterday. It is a book I couldn’t put down. It is written through the eyes of Bruno, a 9 year old boy who is the son of a high ranking Nazi in WW2. His father moves his family from Berlin to “Out-With” after getting promoted by the “Fury”. Bruno doesn’t like it because it’s not as nice as Berlin and there is no one to play with. Then he meets a boy exactly his age from the other side of the fence. They develop a very strong friendship, which Bruno keeps secret from his family.There’s no blood and guts in the book, but the overall picture is pretty shocking. It’s an easy read, you will finish in a couple hours. Absolute must-read.