Jeanie and I enjoyed a pretty lazy weekend...
We spent most of Saturday and Sunday just lazing about the house.
We did take a nice walk through Park West with the doggies on Saturday. It was a beautiful day, and we really enjoyed the large naturalized plantings of daffodils that are at peak bloom. Every time I see a large planting of daffodils, I am reminded of the spring scene in Dr. Zhivago - which is one of Jeanie's all time favorites - and that makes me happy.
I also got started mending a number of drywall cracks that have re-surfaced. I believe that most, if not all, of them existed before we had the house painted last summer. I think the painters just did a shoddy job of repairing them. Rather than just slap a little more spackle into the cracks, I used a utility knife to cut a "v" out of the wall around the crack, then filled the void with Durham's Rock Hard Water Putty - one of my all-time favorites.
In the evening, we watched the movie "Cellular," which was an entertaining suspense / family in peril / unlikely hero formula movie. We also watched "Shark Tale," but I fell asleep in the middle (due to tiredness, not boredom) and ended up finishing it on Sunday. The animation and music in Shark Tale were fantastic, and its underlying theme of tolerance and acceptance is one which we all would do well to embrace.
On Sunday, I applied a finish coat of spackle to each of the repairs first thing in the morning, and then sanded them in the late afternoon.
We spent the middle of the day mostly reading and napping.
Sunday night, we watched "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow," which we both enjoyed. The movie was cool in its Flash Gordon retro style. I think I enjoyed the DVD bonus materials even more than the movie. I still can't quite get my head around just how much of the movie is CG effects, but the bonus materials definitely helped to illustrate just how little of the final product was "real." It is amazing to ponder how hard it must have been for the actors to create believable characters and situations when they had almost nothing real around them - just a giant blue screen stage. I also found the story of the Conran brothers to be extremely compelling. It is amazing to see the dedication some people have to achieve their dream, and I found myself somewhat envious of the passion that each member of the cast and crew had about their project.
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Posted by David at March 14, 2005 10:47 AM