Monday Morning Haziness

This is where I get used to going to bed at midnight and waking at 8:00. AHHHH vacation.

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I hope you all have a chance to check out Jenny and Josh's new blog Caring 4 Caydence.

From Laurie up dare in Oshkosh.

Oshkosh is off and running with PE events. The Museum kicked off its PE Exhibit with a sneak peak Friday night. It has something for everyone. Lots of photo displays (including a few non-Oshkosh photos with Columbus); Tommy gun shooting gallery; you can rob and bank and visit a jail cell; view memorabilia from the era and end your tour with a visit to the Speakeasy for a non-alcoholic drink. And on Saturday we were privileged to have Midwest Motorized Bandits perform a bank robbery re-enactments at the Museum. They were truly spectacular.
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BRRRRRRR - IT'S TOO COLD!! Why even have summer if it's going to be below 85!!

I WOULD have flower/garden photos but my camera was in the shop all weekend getting it's sensor cleaned.

WHO KNEW GLOBE THISTLE'S WOULD GET SO BIG. I have maybe 30 death star globes about to emerge.

Also - MILK WEED is slightly invasive. I guess it must have spread seeds. On the bright note I counted 6 Monarch caterpillars on the Milk Weed.

We watched Valkyrie last night and in a lot of ways it was like Public Enemies. Same basic time period and they were happy to get many vehicles and planes from that era, most are owned by collectors. The look and feel is the same as Michale Mann has for PE which many Imdb people whine about. They seem to think people were black and white and grainey back then.

When you lived in that time you did not see black and white, you saw tones of colors, not an old film look. The movie was shot mostly on locations like PE and most were in the actual spot where events happened.

Being a WWII history buff this untold true story on how a large group of Germain people inside the Army were anti-Hitler and how they ALMOST took over the government is amazing and sad. It was the last of 15 attempted Hitler failed murders.

One of the reason the Allies won the war was that Hitler kept killing all the smart Generals other bright people thinking they were against him. Over 30,000 were executed for treason over the last 2 or 3 years. Netflix said I would love the movie (4 of 5 stars) and were right on.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - WOW - second biggest opening in history with a gargantuan $201.2M in its first five days. The only film to beat it was The Dark Knight with $203.8M.

Public Enemies has gotten favorable press as 70% of the reviewers have given it a thumbs up! Of course 20% of the reviewers gave Transformers the thumbs up so take it with a grain of salt. 97% give UP the thumbs up (which if you are in Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq and Thailand you would not want to give anybody the thumbs up).

So have a great COLD day.

Man I am so sick of Micheal Jackson garbage on TV.

Rod