Oscar Weekend

This weekend was Elweed Saturday and Oscar Weekend.

Friday DJ and I watched The Favourite (obviously they do not know how to spell as well as I do)  and afterwards I had to do some reading on Queen Anne, who ruled between  1702 to 1717.  Its certainly a dark comedy.

It stars Olivia Colman who won best female actor for her role and Emma Stone who seems to be in EVERYTHING I am watching lately (Maniac for one).  The term "Favourite" comes from the influences of whoever her "favorite"  . . . . . . girlfriend was at the time.

ANYWAY - what a bazaar intriguing movie with a weird ending.  It's done in chapters so while the plot is linear it's chunked up in 8 chapters.   BEAUTIFULLY filmed and . . odd.   Very . . enjoyable for a weirdo comedy.

Then Saturday I pick up Elweed for a day.  We have a thing where we grade the weather each visit.  Been doing this since he was stuck here on Grinders Island for 2 days when the flood hit and when he was stuck here for a blizzard . . which put him in the Columbus hospital for a week when he blew a lung.  (He never received a bill for a $50,000 stay . . .no insurance so you and I paid the bill with higher insurance rates - Obamacare fixed that  . . . but it's gone now and we still have higher rates NOW).  This was before Badger Care.

ANYWAY - on a scale of 1-10 Saturday was a "2".   The BEST day so far this year was an 8.5 on 1/5/19.  The average this year is 5.3.  When you are forced to huddle in the garage during cigar and cigarette time the rating goes down drastically  LOL 

Sunday DJ and I watched BLACKkKLANSMEN.

This should be mandatory watching.  It's funny, it's poignant, it's shocking, it's humorous, and the ending will completely, 100% floor you.  BRAVO!  I clapped (not that they could hear me).

https://youtu.be/pFc6I0rgmgY



The ending.  DJ says  "WOW - That shit just got real".   Double BRAVO!

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So Micheal Simon builders in their weekly update says "we're halfway down".  Shingles go on this week and the floor goes in and we are introduced to a new carpenter and what he has been doing before he starts on our place.  !00% impressed with Micheal Simon builders.

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This was Saturday night as we huddled in the garage away from wind and slush falling from the sky.

and Sunday morning we had these tracks in the snow.

The first guess were Raccoon but they are possum.  You can tell with the front paws showing 5 wide fingers but the back paws look like tiny child's hands. Back feet normally step where the front food stepped but the upper left side you can see some separation.

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The draft is down to picking up stars of tomorrow in MY last 9 rounds.  Two picks this morning already.     

Me - playing Strat-o-matic in 1969  (X-Chart leaning against the wall)

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We are done with polar vortexes - WHOO HOO!!!!   See you next January bitches.

I take that back - we should hit 50 on Thursday at least.  I still think the snow cover will cool things down.  It's going to be a windy week that will help evaporate the snow and a good size amount of rain so get ready for some flooding.   

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OH ONE LAST THING

We were playing some virtual golf and one one of the finalists for the World Cup TGCTours Course Design contest.

I was golfing GREAT.  I had never seen a double eagle much less hit one.    sort of a boring shot - 238 yards uphill by about 8 feet.  I was actually between clubs so was ready to go off the green.

https://youtu.be/FL0Il0qN27g