Happy Mother's Day

Hi all.  Happy Mother's Day.  Today dh is using the Brinkmann Gourmet Charcoal Smoker that daughter #1 found for us at V V a while ago.  We are cooking up a boneless chuck roast.  It looks good so far.

Dh has a ruptured eardrum and cannot hear on the right side.  Now he has an excuse when he says he didn't hear me say something.  Ha!!  It isn't getting better, so hopefully we can get in to see the dr tomorrow.  Looks like he made need surgery to fix things.  Daughter #2 had tubes put in her ears twice when she was very young.  It helped her with her hearing problems, let's hope it will work for DH as well. 

Last night we watched Sweeney Todd.  Hmmmm.  Johnny Depp was a good choice, but I still remember watching Angela Lansbury as Mrs Lovett and I'm not sure Helena BC did as good a job.  Oh well.  Also watched Syriana last night.  I liked the George Clooney character, and I liked the story, but it lacked a certain, dynamic, I think.  Maybe because we had just watched Michael Clayton earlier in the week.  Both excellent films.  We saw Cloverfield (hmmmm) and also watched Donnie Darko again.  I really like this film and wish that some of the deleted scenes had been left in, they explain some of the plot points (like placebos).  Tonight we will watch Juno.  DH has seen it and says it is pretty good.  Oh, we also watched Dan in Real Life.  Pretty good, predictable, but worth it to see Juliette Binoch.  She is such a good actress.  A while back there was a series of 3 films, Red, Blue and White.  She was in Blue.  Great movie.  The whole trilogy was great. 

For Mother's day my lovely daughters sent an hilarious card.  How they got the photo of their dad ( ;-)  is beyond me!!!  But they also sent some lovely pencil roving.  I can't wait to spin it up.  It has lovely long runs of color so I anticipate a Noro type of yarn.  That's about it for now.  Again, Happy Mother's Day.