More Christmas pleasures - Movies that you enjoy!
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Do you enjoy your garden, or do you just enjoy gardening?
Comments (22)Well, the party line answer is clearly both, and obviously for me too, there is enjoyment of the process and the results. I think that must be true for any gardener who is involved in the making of their own garden space and who isn't getting paid for doing it. But I find that as I get older and farther down the garden path, I would like to enjoy the results more, and I find that the process itself can sometimes be tedious, expensive, require too much patience, and overwhelming. So I am going to be brutally honest here -- while I enjoy the work of gardening to some extent, if I could hire more people to do more things for me and just enjoy the results myself, I would do it. The problem is that, for the most part, if you are a real plant geek like I am (and a whole lot of others who responded above), you can't really hire people to arrange plants for you in the way you want them. So there is a certain amount that you have to be involved with yourself. Being involved again in the creation of a new garden, and having left a mature one, I have to say that so far, I enjoyed the mature one more. The last few years I spent there I did work a lot in the garden still, of course, but the proportion of time spent just enjoying the garden was greater. That doesn't mean that I was sitting when I enjoyed it. It doesn't mean that I didn't pull a weed or two when I walked with a glass of wine in the evening. But after 20 years working on that space, the garden felt "finished" to a great extent. That doesn't mean that there would never be anything new. But the garden had a certain cohesiveness that is certainly lacking in my new garden. It also had as much seasonal interest as I could pack into 2/3 acre in my rotten climate. So, weather permitting, the garden always had moments of great beauty and enjoyment for me. But then again, I know that one of the reasons the garden meant so much to me is that I had spent 20 years making it. I had watched the trees, shrubs, perennials that I had planted get moved from one place to anohter (NAY he says, "I MOVED them from one place to another"...) until they finally found a place that they (and I) liked. Still garden making takes patience, and it is hard in the early stages not to want more results, with less work at garden making. I think that's one reason why, relatively speaking, I did not take many pictures of the new garden this year -- in the last year I was at my old place I took over a thousand, this year less than 100. A reflection that the garden was more about process than results, so far. One of the greatest times of garden enjoyment I ever remember in my old garden was after a big garden tour. The weeds were all pulled, the plants all relatively pristine (it was mid-June), the crowds were gone, my family and the dog were gone, the walks and drives all neat and clean, no cars or other distractions to be seen. Then I walked through and enjoyed my own garden, for a couple of hours, nobody but me and the hummingbirds and butterflies. One of the best times of garden enjoyment I ever had, along with very early foggy mornings and late summer evenings. Give me more of those, and less back-breaking work, any day.......See MoreChristmas movies
Comments (34)Good Thread!! My favorite movie that I must watch every year, since I saw it on T.V. when I was really little, was "Santa Clause the Movie" It has Dudley Moore in it, as well as John Lithgow. My tape is getting pretty old, but I love that movie soooo much. Has anyone seen the Wookie Christmas Special? It's absolutely hysterical. My BIL is a Star Wars fan and just happened to get his hands on a copy of this. Harrison Ford doesn't even like to awknowledge this film, that's how "bad" it really is. Think about a half hour of wookies "talking". Hehe, Happy Holidays!!...See MoreChristmas movie schedule
Comments (4)Thanks for sharing the site swest2. Yesterday afternoon I was browsing tv channels and happened upon "Miracle on 34th Street" an old time favorite of mine. It will be nice to know when the different movies will be on. Two of my very favorite movies that don't seem to be on any of our local channels any longer (Peter Pan with Mary Martin & Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland) are now in my DVD collection....See MoreLet's Play a Game - Christmas Movies!
Comments (39)The one I was thinking of with the Christmas rose of was called Gift of Love, A Christmas story. Angela Lansbury, Lee Remick and Polly Holliday (who played Flo in tv show) Alice starred in it. I sat and bawled when I watched it and now might watch it again if I can find it on DVD. I love The House Without a Christmas Tree too. Kathy...See More
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2 months agolast modified: 2 months agoWe just watched this one with Freddie Prinze Jr. last night. A nice one with a definite Hispanic flavor to it. Which feels familiar to me living here in New Mexico. Freddie has definitely grown up, playing the widowed father of a teenager in this movie. Oh my gosh, I still remember when he used to hang out next door with our neighbors’ son!
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