You ever take a photo of something that you like and don’t have a use for it but you never quite forget about it? I took this photo three years ago on the campus of Colorado State University in Fort Collins. My niece Jillian was graduating and I spotted this fence while I was on the campus. Isn’t it just perfect for an Ag College. All about cows, horses, on plate steel and they even have a fence on the top and bottom.
This is my first post on Friday Fences.
The air has been a little smokey lately. You can see the smoke from fires west of Tulsa. We had a mild winter but we need some rain now.
Those that know me know that G to me is for geocaching.http://www.geocaching.com/
I love hiding containers hidden in the woods.
And seeing what they contain!
They come in all shapes and sizes.
Some even have hair.
Some are pretty fancy.
Geocaching has taken to places with breathtaking sights.
And down long abandoned stretches of Route 66.
I’ve even climbed a few trees.
And has taken me to lighthouses in the middle of Oklahoma’s tallgrass prairies.
I get to play with gadgets that read satellite signals.
It’s great fun for families
and coworkers.
and sharing with people of all ages who have never done it before.
Yep, G is for Geocaching for me.
SuperPizzaBoy has an hour and a half comedy improv class every Saturday.
I took advantage of the situation to get my very dirty Kia Soul cleaned up.
It’s my car’s first official bath. I got the car in July or so. You can tell I”m really OCD about keeping it clean.
Look close for a reflection of the photographer.
You know what the vehicle above and the vehicle below share?
A $2 surcharge for being over sized!
Believe it or not!!
Son and I went geocaching Saturday afternoon on Turkey Mountain here in Tulsa.
The plan was to find several caches, but we only found one, and it was a great one. It was “The Adventure Continues to Continue – RGZ.” It is near the site of an another cache that has since been archived. I’m not going to show you the container nor it’s placement. I don’t want to give away the secret to this tricky cache. It is placed by a cacher who goes by the name M5. Finding one of his caches makes for a great day. Do you think he would sue me if told everybody that he has a twisted mind? Such a mind makes for great geocaches.
Anyway there was a lot of old man style grunting and cussing going on the mountain yesterday. I dropped my walking stick and it slid a long ways down the mountain. So I had to get my big ole butt down there and back to retrieve it. SuperPizzaBoy thought it was pretty funny.
Anyway, four mile round trip, one cache, but a great walk in the woods.
What did you do Saturday?
Friends of ours that have some acreage close to town have various critters including sheep.
My favorite is “Baby” so named because her mother rejected her and so she was raised in the house. She doesn’t know that she is not human. She has always been very trusting, maybe too much so.
Recently Baby was attacked by another animal. They don’t know what. Baby survived and is being treated but has changed.
She is miserable with her injuries and she is no longer trusting. She is fearful.
Hopefully she’ll get better.
Not a hundred feet away a lamb is resting. Mom is checking me out, I kept my distance, I didn’t want to stress them.
Safe House is a great guy movie. It has everything a guy movie needs. Guns, lots of guns of all types, handguns, sniper rifles, machine guns, machine pistols. They had everything but shotguns. They may have had shotguns and I missed it, happens you know. So if your weapon of choice is a shotgun, you may want to think twice about this movie.
Safe House has some great chase scenes. They are not just chase scenes they are more like serial crash scenes. I bet the crashed car budget in this movie was a million dollars. They didn’t crash anything exotic like a Lamborghini or Ferrari. No just your everyday expensive cars like BMW’s and Mercedes. You know they are expensive but they are as cool looking as your niece’s Toyota Camry or your boss’s Lexus, in my opinion
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The movie has great fighting. The fighting is hand to hand, intense, very quick and they use everything from fists, to chains, and even broken pieces of glass. The fighting is filmed in close and in HD. You can see the eyes start to pop out when they are getting strangled. I have no idea how they get a camera in on the action and how they keep somebody from getting hurt during the scenes.
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This movie even has sports. Now the sport is soccer, which everybody knows is not a real sport but still there are some great field goal kickers have come out of soccer, not that a field goal kicker is a real football player and field goals are not that great either. I mean they are proof positive of failure right? I mean it shows you couldn’t score a touchdown so you had to get a soccer player to bail you out. Kind of humiliating when you think about it, right. They had to use soccer in the movie because it is set in South Africa. They don’t play real football in South Africa. I mean how could they play football with a whole team of field goal kickers. Somebody has to block and tackle and carry the ball. Right?
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The movie also has cool dudes. Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds are two very cool dudes. Neither one has any quit in them and they fight, kick, claw, and shoot their way to the very end.
You know what else Safe House has?
A very hot, very sweet, french girlfriend. Meet Nora Anazeder who plays Ana, Ryan Reynold’s girlfriend. She is very sweet, very hot, very clingy, very concerned, and leaves him alone, except when he is showering.
She also does what she is told. In this scene he tells her to get out of town and you know what, she does. She wimpers and cries a little bit but does what she is told. Is that realistic? No, but its every guy’s fantasy. I tell you what is realistic, Reynold’s character occassionally stops his fighting, killing, car crashing, and being a cool guy to call her to check in and see if can pick up anything on his way home and that he is very busy and could be a little late and is that OK. Happens to the best of us. They could have left that out, that’s too realistic.
So, you may be wondering what the movie is about? Who cares its got all the ingredients of a great movie. Go see it. I give it four stars out of five. Tell your wife or girlfriend that it is a romantic comedy. Blame me if they get mad at you.
Sweetie and I went to see The Artist last week. I was a little leery because it was a silent film and well you know it, uh, what’s wrong with a soundtrack?
Well, I’d glad we went. You can check the link above for the plot and all that and what I want to write about was the experience. The acting and the score worked so well together that it was kind of like a ballet. The actors are very expressive. I didn’t feel like I missed a thing but not having sound. Jean Dujardin plays silent movie star George Valentin. Bérénice Bejo plays Peppy Miller the up and coming starlet. The movie is a silent movie about silent movies and the ups and downs of Valentin and the flirting between him and Peppy Miller.
You know something else, the audience in the theater was absolutely silent. Nobody was talking, nobody was making noise, everybody was quiet. That was great but a little unnerving. It just goes to show that people can quit yakking if they want to. I have to admit that one gentleman in the auditorium (not me) started snoring. That gave everybody a good chuckle.
I was glad I went. This one gets five stars out of five. Not just because it is a silent movie but because of the imagination and crativity that went into it. Go see it.
Are you going to watch the Academy Awards? I am. Go to the Academy Awards Site, vote (not that it counts for any of the results). Lots of good movies this year, THE Help, War Horse among others.
I’m going for the The Help. What is your pick?
