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It rained on and off all weekend...
School had ended for Nancy on Wednesday -- and we attended an end-of-school faculty party and had a good time. We had not rented a movie in ages. This school year Nancy had been very busy with lesson plans and homework and tests to grade, etc. but now school was over so we stopped at Holly's Video Source and rented Walk the Line -- which we enjoyed. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon both gave fine performances. I had scheduled a vacation day for Thursday -- we had thoughts of doing some major cleaning and rearranging projects -- but Nancy had twisted her back on Wednesday unloading boxes of classroom stuff from her car and spent the day on her back, alternating between heating pad and ice pack and taking lots of Aleve. (She's all better now -- even played tennis this morning.) So I got in some garden work and a few other odd chores, but we still haven't gotten to the projects we had planned. Friday night we really lived it up -- yes, when we came home from the Mews, we watched another rented movie -- Two for the Money - which we selected because it had Al Pacino and Rene Russo (how can you go wrong with those two?) and they were both good in the movie and (to our surprise) Matthew McConaughey was also quite good. This isn't really a deep movie (although, of course, some of the chatter in the bonus features with screenwriter taking with the guy who was the inspiration for the concept would try to make it so) but it really is a fast paced and entertaining two hours. Yes, this was a wild and crazy weekend -- since we were on a movie roll, on Saturday night we watched Cinderalla Man on HBO. And, amazingly, it was also a good movie. Wow -- three for three. As I noted, this was a wet weekend. It wasn't non-stop rain; there were periods when it slacked off to just a very light rain or even stopped for a while. On Sunday afternoon Nancy and I went out for a walk and covered close to two miles -- but Sunday's rainfall total for our town was about three inches! And today has been bright and sunny -- and very humid.
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