Olympic Saturday.

Watched the Vancouver (opening) Olympic Ceremony last night and it was amazing,  Ron had offered to take me to dinner and I got a "rain-check" and  we watched the tube.  I was told scalped tickets for this event were going for $8,000.00.  TV was FREE... How did they get those whales to swim across the field?  I did share a bottle of wine with my date so maybe I was inebriated!)

Well the last time we saw Chicago's Greg he gave us a list of  movies which are:
Greg's Top Ten of the 2000's 
(He may be in grad school but he is still the "Authority" on what to put in the NETFLIX  Q.)
1. Before Sunset
2. North Country for Old Men
3. There Will be Blood
4. The Royal Tenebaums
5. Million Dollar Baby
6. You Can Count on Me
8. Sideways
9. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
10. Inglorious Basterds
RON WAS REALLY PLEASE ABOUT 'SIDEWAYS' GETTING THEE NOMINATION AND I got to write in 'The Secret of Roan Inish' (mindful this was last century.)

Yesterday I amazed myself (and as Ron is always hungry, him too) with a scratch-batch of French Onion Soup! I got my kitchen kinda cleaned (it is never perfect) and after I delivered a "Thank You"  for the great Thursday dinner which we were privileged to be guests of; I made onion porridge.

AND since tomorrow is VD..."Let Mine & Your Love Lights Shine."

I also connected with Meg..."God Bless her little Irish heart and all her other little "now German" parts! She is sounding like she can wait to get her practice started becuz she is assimilating to life.  (Gretchen has told me Meg has signed up for German language classes.)

Reference to Meg's Blog:..Ron didn't have a clue that I gave her his Garmin.  But it was in his Toyota Tundra in MSP (Minneapolis) and when it crashes at high speeds it won't work anyway...and either will the other Toyotas which we hold so dear 'n near.  This will give me an ease into the conversation as he doesn't know he also bought  her the European chip for 'his' Garmin.

Meg did get her two apartment house in Germany... I think it is in Kusel.  She took the whole thing and explained to me it is for us all to visit.  She has a separate apartment for you and I.  That's right.  AMAZING!  She wants company! (Even parents)

I got a "PennyTalk" account when Gretchen went to Germany but I never used it (Meg did to call her sister) becuz  "Skype" is free.  Anyway it is really cheap to call...like 2 cents a minute with a 49 cent connection fee.  Trick I learned is don't go to voice mail if you can help it.

Well, I am off to buy the kid some vegetable seeds cuz she wants to start hybrid tomatoes in her soon to be backyard garden. (See the picture on her Blog)  I have some giant pumpkin seeds.  She will be the hit of Kusel with a 1400 pound Giant Pumpkin from Wisconsin.  Elsie and Tyson can water the pumpkin and hopefully not the tomatoes.

Tschus.