SwairFest. =)

It's SwairFest time! No, no, don't worry, take a second look at the spelling. ;) South West Air Fest!! If you remember last year, the Blue Angels were here. This year we've got the Thunderbirds, Snowbirds, a pair of F-16's, two F-18's, some biplanes & stunt planes, and the Golden Knights (parachute team). =D I love SwairFest. I especially like telling people "My brother's volunteering at Swairfest this year." and hearing them go "He's volunteering where? At swear fest??" ;)
Bro and I went down to the place we were last year, where you can see everything that's happening there and have planes fly right over ya, but you don't have to pay. We watched the F-18 in our front yard for a while, then high-tailed it down there and arrived right after the Snowbirds took off.

If you want some REALLY good pictures of them, wait 'til Monday or so. Dad took pics with my camera last night, and some of them are amazing!

They made the biggest heart I've ever seen. =) Awwww...

Those are all Snowbirds. One waggled his wings at us. =) He was flying inverted behind another inverted plane, and my brother & I were waving at them. The first flipped right-side-up and kept on going nice an' smooth, but the second righted itself, wiggled his wings, and followed the first. =D My brother was so excited at that!! And my little brother waved at them once, and one did several barrel rolls right after he waved. Now he's convinced that the pilot made the plane do that because he waved....

Thunderbirds took off after we were there a while. They're cool. And fast. And loud. But not as fast and loud as the Blue Angels are. =)
Oh, and just out of curiosity, what would you say is the best home remedy for sunburn? Like for on your nose--the one place you forgot to put sunscreen on?
~Kiwi~
P.S. You'll have to come up here for this next year, Grandpa!

I have declared today to be..

"Write A Random Poem That Doesn't Rhyme, Has No Meter, And Has About As Much Meaning To It As It Does Meter" Day. Please join me as I celebrate this wonderful local (VERY local) holiday. =)

I just noticed
No one's suggested
A good way for a pumpkin
To meet it's demise.

No one, that is
Except Kristen, my friend;
"Make it into
A Pumpcano!"

While a pumpcano,
I admit,
Would be a fine thing,
Could it totally obliterate this small, striped squash?

And also, I don't know
That I'd want to cut open this thing--
I've had it since September,
So it may be a bit ripe.

I'll give y'all another chance
To give me a good idea,
And then head on over to guitargirl's blog
'Cause she's doing a giveaway!

What's your poem today?
~Kiwi~

Happy Anniversary!/Pumpkin contest

Happy Anniversary to my grandparents! They were married 46 years ago today. =)

Okay, I'm havin' a contest today, ends sometime next week. You need to tell me the most creative way you can think of to get rid of a pumpkin.

As in "totally mangle and destroy" the pumpkin. I've had it for a while, and I keep meaning to get rid of it, but it would be a shame to just toss a perfectly good pumpkin in the trash! I have to do something Creative. Interesting. Epic.

I will choose a method of destroying it proposed by one of you, and make a video showing its demise. That's what you win. =) 

So, start thinking! Be creative & weird. Be unique. No pumpkin cannons or catapults--they've already been done. Oh, and please do it with common household items, I don't want to have to buy stuff just to get rid of a pumpkin! =D

~Kiwi~

Ho-Hum. I'm behind my posting schedule on here, and my poor Old Movie Blog hasn't been visited by me in months! That and my posts on here apparently have not been the most interesting.
I hope you find this one more to your liking, and voice your opinion of it. I shall tell about a couple of mini-parties I've had, then at the end I shall tell a deep, dark secret.
But you have to read the entire post, don't just skip to the end!

A couple of weeks ago I had my dear friend Reba (Queen Lucy, please don't mention to her the fact that I called her "Reba." She may not like it much...) here for a sleepover, and it was one of the best times I've had in a while! We watched some old silent movies (Buster Keaton is officially a genius. Some of the effects he used look rather simple now, but at the time these were New and Innovative! No one else had used them yet! And you know how in the '30s, '40s, and '50s, if the people were shown in a car they were actually in front of a movie screen to make it look like they were really driving? Buster Keaton didn't do that! Back in the 'teens and early '20s, even, if he was shown driving he was actually driving the car outside. So admit it. He was pretty much the best silent actor.) watched some silent movies, played FARKLE and UNO, and talked.
One of the highlights was sitting in the kitchen with a candle, a pair of forks, and a bag of marshmallows. C= I've always wanted to roast shmallows over a candle, and now I have. It's a little different because there's so little flame--you have to burn it to get it melted. Oh, and we also roasted apple slices over the candle, too. They weren't spectacular. Just warmed. Kinda boring, really.
Reba left the next morning, but not until we talked more and placed some imaginary bets on the outcome of the Uno Tournament. Now I wish they hadn't been imaginary! (I beat her with me three zeros and one 48. :) Adn now she's in Florida until I-don't-know-when (do you know when they get back, Queen Lucy?), and I can't wait for her to return!

Then the Friday after that, Sis invited three friends over to watch "Arsenic and Old Lace," which is another one of the Best Movies Ever! (Cary Grant was the perfect person for Mortimer, and I loved Teddy and the aunts, and Priscilla Lane was perfect for her part, especially the last scene, and Peter Lorre as Dr. einstein was hilarious, and I loved all the jokes about Jonathan looking like Boris Karlof.) Poor Mr. Hoskins!
In addition to watching the movie, we consumed hundreds of gummy bears and had a deeply scientific discussion on pop, what makes it fizz, what makes it loose or keep its fizz, why raisins act funny in pop, why craisins are even more entertaining in pop, and the chemical make-up of pop. I don't remember even half of what was said & decided on, but it was a half-hour-long-deep-discussion!
That was another highlight of my recent life. =) I like old movies with friends.

And the deep, dark secret I was going to tell you? I like going into (some) caves.



Think about it.

~Kiwi~

Riddle

Force Koran Heaven Yea Sago Hour Force Feathers Brought Fourth Upon Cis Continent Anew Neigh Shun conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives so that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, [I cannot concentrate] we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here [yet I am supposed to memorize what they said there... :], but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

I had to memorize that, so I typed it from memory. I am now thoroughly tired of the Gettysburg Address! Yes, it's a very good speech, but after mumbling it at random times of day and night, I'd like to have a break from it.
I am now finishing week three (I think?) of fourteen for my government curriculum, which means I'm way behind. Again. I should be further. I don't really have time to take all fourteen weeks, so I'm smushing it into seven. Oh, and by week three I don't mean "I'm almost half-way done." By week three, I mean "following the 14 week lesson plan, I'm on week three, but according to my smushedintosevenweekslessonplan, I'm only 1 1/2 weeks in." >=P
Until we remembered I had a government course to do, I was laughing at the people who complain about how busy senior year is. I'm sorry for laughing now.
~Kiwi~

A bunch of quotes

Hello, I had meant to blog Monday, but....it didn't happen. Therefore I shall blog today. =)

I just finished reading Emma by Jane Austen. It's a good book, with lots of interesting quotes in it, such as:

"'It is very pretty,' said Mr. Woodhouse.....'The only thing I do not thoroughly like is, that she seems to be sitting out of doors, with only a little shawl over her shoulders; and it makes one think she must catch cold.'

'But, my dear papa, it is supposed to be summer; a warm day in summer. Look at the tree.'

'But it is never safe to sit out of doors, my dear.'"

(Mr. Woodhouse is always mildly ill, has to sit by a fire even on sweltering days in summer, and is always afraid that his daughter, or "Poor Miss Taylor," or Someone is going to catch cold or get indigestion. He's sort of entertaining that way, but I don't know if I'd be able to handle living with someone that cautious!)

"It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind: but when a beginning is made-when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt-it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more."

"She checked herself, however, and submitted quietly to a little more praise than she deserved."

Those are all from Emma, and this is something Jane Austen said in a letter to someone:

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

And this is from a wonderful movie called "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." (If you haven't seen it, go find it and watch. It's one of the best. =)

"Now Adam, you're my oldest brother. I always looked up to you, tried to ape you, but I just wouldn't feel right if I didn't tell you how I feel. *POW!!*

And lastly, Downhere has a new song!!!! 

Isn't it a good one?!? I can't wait to hear more from them! =D
Goodbye for now, I must leave.
~Kiwi!~

Do You Get It?

Force...........Sago...........Brought........Continent

Koran..........Hour...........Fourth..........Anew

Heaven........Force..........Upon............Neigh

Yea.............Feathers......Cis................Shun

UNO TOURNAMENT!!!!

We had the church-wide Uno Tournament today! It was so much fun. Too bad it's only once a year.
I got...what, 19th place or something? But not bad, and most of the people ahead of me were boys or littler kids (with parents to help them. No, I was not beaten by a bunch of little helpless kids! I'm better than that!), so there were still some nice prizes left when I went up to pick one. I found a very pretty wooden bowl, one that used to be part of a church pew! Someone took the ends of the bench, with crosses carved into them, and made them into bowls with the cross on the bottom. Apparently there's one as a prize every year, and they're usually 'fought' over by the women. :) I'm happy to have gotten one! I'll stick a few pictures up once I get them loaded on.

I had the little kids scared of me by the end of the first round. I'm Ruthless. I piled card after card on a little 5 yr. old and won the first round (Don't worry, she didn't cry! She ended up with only 3 points from that one, even though I had given her so many cards!), then won the second in just a few plays. After that, no one wanted to sit by me. =( And I lost the second two. =( =(
But I still won two. And a nice prize. =)

Bible study the other night was fun. I brought 50 pieces of our Secret Family Recipe Fudge, and 25 were gone in the first 15 minutes, wolfed down by 8 people! If THAT isn't a record, I don't know WHAT is! But, of course, they shouldn't have wolfed them down. The proper way to eat SFR Fudge is slowly, bite by delectable bite, savouring the flavour. O well. =)

Now I'm going to watch a short movie or two, and head for the hay. Toodleoo.

~Kiwi~