I just looked out at my Custard Candy thats blooming after a rain this evening and it still looks as good as it did before the rain.The rain was a hard sprinkle for about 45 minutes,but didn't bother this DL at all. Jean

Monster in law is on tonight on TNT at 8 E. That was a really funny movie. Kathy G in MI

Good Morning! I always feel so good after reading all of your posts! Everyone is so busy and so full of energy. But like Luvs....I do things is a slow manner now, work 5 minutes and rest 15...but then isn't that the way we are supposed to do it? This is the one time of the year I wish we lived in town....we usually get 0 - that's zero - kids on Halloween. How fondly I remember living in Calif and getting hundreds of kids each year, and how excited they were, and how kids seemed to get so tall and still be kids. We are getting ready to take a trip to Hauser, Idaho for several days. I am hand delivering the ornies this year. Our friends there just finished their new home and this is our first trip there. So I have been very busy and she just asked that I make her a flag like mine only bigger so I have been extra busy finishing the ornies and making the flag and trying to keep up with life. DH had an appointment with his sleep apnea Dr., which is about 75 miles away, the nice part is I went cloths shopping and hit the jackpot. Don't think I have purchased so many cloths at one time and the jackpot part is that they were all on sale! It was a great day and we had a lot of fun. It was also our first trip in our new van, we finally traded in the "big beast" of a truck and WoW! It is wonderful! I am hoping that while in Hauser we get to do a shopping trip to Spokane....they have thrift store, and even though my friend will want to wear a mask to hide her identity, I know she will have fun once we get started as she loves to shop...any kind of shopping! So....calling it a day and you all take care! Belle

Vee, thanks for the link to the Gallup poll. Whew! It will take me a while to assimilate it. As for "the sad state of affairs": I understand now. I tied it to the wrong paragraph. :-) Woodnymph, yeah, I realize that I'm in the minority about the film of To Kill a Mockingbird. I figure my love of the whole book makes me too critical of the adaptation, which picks out and gives emphasis to a particular part. Which reminds me: June, if you watch the Olivier/Oberon Wuthering Heights, don't expect to see the whole story -- you will only get part of it. Otherwise, it's a quite fascinating interpretation: telling, I think, of what adaptors of the 1930s thought was important and what subsequent audiences have taken in. Woodnymph, I saw The English Patient film first, and then read the book. While the "essence" of the book might have been captured in the film, the two are so different! I like the film better. Another essence capturer, I think, is The French Lieutenant's Woman. Oh gosh, yes, the Polanski-directed Tess is superb, I think, and very faithful. Actually I like nearly all of the film versions of Hardy's books, particularly Tess and Far from the Madding Crowd -- Alan Bates will always be my Gabriel Oak. I also liked most of the Merchant-Ivory productions. I certainly like their adaptations of Forster, though I find Forster's writing insufferably Edwardian. I do like some Edwardian writing but Forster's was even more uptight than most. Knowing his bio and the times, I can understand why he wrote the way he did but the priggishness still exasperates me. Speaking of another Forster -- Margaret Forster, that is -- and Alan Bates: I adore the 1966 adaptation of Forster's Georgy Girl. I loved that book so much as a teenager that I determined I was to live in London. When this subject comes up, I always have to mention two of my favorite short story adaptations: John Huston's "The Dead" (from Joyce's Dubliners) and "Babette's Feast" (from Dinesen's Anecdotes of Destiny). June, you're right: there are so many good films that owe their genesis to a book.