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Kathleen (lludwig) posted an update Tuesday, Sep 17, 2013, 2:10pm EDT, 12 years ago
Good Afternoon from Penn's Woods,
Finally got the food and camping stuff list done and sent to my two brothers and cousin. We are going camping (cabins by a lake) "back home" and will be having a picnic one of the afternoons with a number of our uncles, aunts and a couple of cousins joining us. Hope it warms up a little. Nights have been really cool recently. The cabins are heated but rain or very cold would really put a damper on things, especially cooking on an open fire! It will be so nice to see some of the relatives. Last August was the last time that almost everyone of the 80+ were together but that was for a funeral of my oldest uncle. It is going to be so hard losing more (Mom was oldest of 10). So this mini-reunion will be fun to talk about old times and to create new memories.
jude51 & Jim(dainisjg) We also watch the TV shows on On Demand. Nice to be able to fast forward.
jude51 Both DH and I LOL while watching Big Bang and we all know that laughter is the best medicine. For us, there is something special when we both laugh at the same time.
Jim(dainisjg) DH watches Breaking Bad. He suggested it to me but I didn't think that I would like it. Maybe I'll have to see if the first ones are still on and see if it is something that I would like to watch more of. You must have caught a 'bad' episode of The Big Bang Theory when you first watched it as you discovered when you watched more. Most of the ones that I have seen, and I have watched many of them, were not as you described in the initial one that you saw, but it has been on for 6 seasons so either it was different writers that week or the writers were having a bad week! September 26 starts the 7th season so they must be doing something right. I've been amazed that the quality has stayed as good imo as it has over so many seasons. Hard to believe they keep coming up with new story lines.
Bob Newhart will be appearing in more episodes this season. Nice to hear that he received an Emmy for it. I agree about being a bit disappointed in his performance, but it was still great to see him back on the screen. The ending to his show when he was the Innkeeper in Vermont ranks right up there with Carol Burnett coming down the stairs with the drapery rod still attached to the drapes!
I forgot to mention yesterday that two of the actors in "Newsroom" are Jane Fonda, who owns the network (shades of Ted Turner) and the Sam Waterstone, who played the head Asst DA on Law & Order, and he is the head honco of the Newsroom. Excellent actors all around in the series.
Oh and one of the BBC shows that I have been wanting to mention for awhile in addition to the ones that I listed yesterday is "Monarch of the Glen" We have watched quite a few seasons of it but recently slacked off. The later seasons are not as good as the first ones. A lot of the original characters are gone and it doesn't have the zip it once did, but we plan on watching more when nothing else is one. It is a light comedy and is another one that DH and I would LOL together so it is a good one to watch esp from the beginning if you like to be amused and entertained. All the episodes are available on DVD.
From Wikipedia:
" Monarch of the Glen is a British drama television series produced by Ecosse Films for BBC Scotland and broadcast on BBC One for seven series between 2000 and 2005.
The Monarch of the Glen television series is loosely based on Sir Compton Mackenzie's Highland Novels, which are set in the same location but in the 1930s and 1940s. The first book in that series is called The Monarch of the Glen which was a reference to the famous painting by Landseer. The first five series of Monarch of the Glen told the story of young restaurateur, Archie MacDonald, trying to restore his childhood home in the Scottish Highlands, starring Alastair Mackenzie, Richard Briers, Susan Hampshire, and Dawn Steele, whilst the final two series of the show focused on new Laird Paul Bowman trying to modernise the estate, primarily starring Lloyd Owen, Tom Baker, Alexander Morton, and Susan Hampshire."
It is interesting that they don't list Julian Fellowes in that list of actors. He not only played a great part but he is the creator of Downton Abby Interesting that the Wiki page gave about the same review as I did with the first 5 seasons bringing in high ratings but then dropping as actors left (better offers or lousy contract?). It does appear that it will be worth watching it to the end however as they bring some of the originals back. DH and I thought they were trying to let the show die a slow death as they kept getting rid of some of the best. We have noticed that on some other BBC shows. The best actors leave either killed off or moving while the American shows keep running until everyone is sick to death of watching them! LOL
In looking up Monarch of the Glen, I found out that the Highland estate made famous in the TV series goes on the market for the first time in 200 years for £7 million. It is not the one where the Monarch of the Glen lived but rather the one where the character that Julian Fellows lived. These estates are huge, the one that is for sale has 7,000 acres and the one where the Monarch lived was said to have 20,000 at least in the story it did.
Below is the article with pixs of both homes/castles as well as the owners of the one for sale and the characters in front of the one on the program.
Considering what people pay in Beverly Hills and other parts of the US, this seems to be a great deal!