Dinner and a Movie

This was a happy day that just happened. First, I got a decent sleep. I was just tinkering with stuff. Came a knock at the door and it was my good Jehovahs. We talked and laughed for 30 minutes easily. The "lad" Witness looks young for his age. He said he was a senior-I would have guessed freshman on the outside. Honey must have very sensitive antennae because she did not harrass these missionaries at all.

It was just a laid back day. Reading on the deck, being with the pups, beautiful fall weather and a certain stillness about the landscape.

I have been collecting some Foreign movies on DVD. Some are my favorites, a couple of new ones-surprisingly inexpensive. If I can arrange equipment, perhaps there will be an outdoor Foreign Film Festival at John Prince Park this winter. Curiously, a lot of them revolve around food-old person porn. I-re-watched Babette's Feast, winner of the 1987 Oscar for Best Foreign Fim. It is a Danish film thought-provoking and a stunner. While I was watching the preparation and consumption of Babette's feast, I enjoyed my own. A nice little pork loin, applesauce, Janet's new potatoes, and her corn, oven roasted in the shucks. Mighty tasty. A really nice time.

Memory Hook: Paul Newman died at age 83 of Cancer. Nothing to be sad about after a long and rich life but a whole lot to be grateful for. I'm glad we walked the planet together. He, charmingly discounted his beauty-he just didn't see it, and didn't take credit for his genetic or Providential gifts. There are probably a lot of men like me who wondered what it would have been like to be inside his skin looking out. Not really envy but admiration and a keen sense of the power of those looks. He was a prince of a fellow in later life.