Houseful of love

Chaos Theory is proven correct at my house this month. My four granddaughters, age 9, 9, 7 and 4, are visiting for 10 days (from Utah). Their mom is here, too, and their dad will join all of us for the last 4 days. Today we'll spend the day in Port Angeles doing the Marine Science Center and more. Tomorrow, big day in Seattle to the Seattle Children's Museum and later to the Arboretum & Botanical Garden.

The weather just turned gorgeous after being chilly and rainy. You probably saw on national news how it was SNOWING two days ago up on Snoqualmie Pass (where I-90 goes across the Cascades). It's the first time Washington Dept. of Transportation has had to use snowplows in JUNE. Near us, Hurricane Ridge (in the Olympic Mountain Range) had snow, too.

We're not complaining, though!!! It's SO sad about the flooding in the Midwest and the tornadoes all over. My heart goes out to the thousands of people who've lost everything they worked their whole lives to build. Even worse, those who've lost loved ones, like the boy scouts in Iowa. I pray that God will comfort them.
Lynnette

Movies on my mind

I'm not a big movie-goer. I watch Ebert & Roeper every week on TV and ninety percent of the movies they review I DON'T want to see. By that I don't mean I believe whatever they say and adopt it as my own opinion. More often than not, Richard Roeper and his guest reviewer LOVE a movie that I know would be torture for me to sit through. I hate most high-action computer special effects movies. I could never sit through weird superhero movies like "Transformers" or "The Incredible Hulk."
I hate martial arts extravaganzas. One guy kicks and disables 15 guys. Yeah. The bad guys wait in line for their turn to get kicked like bored customers at the post office. And the hero leaps twenty feet into the air. GAG. Bite me.
I also hate extreme violence. I really believe the pervasiveness of gun violence, car chases through crowds of innocent bystanders, and bombs have an effect on young (or older, but unstable!!!) minds. I remember running out of a theater in horror during a McCauley Culkin movie. I think it was called "The Bad Son." The evil boy drops big rocks off a highway overpass causing a multi-car pileup. It was treated with nonchalance, not indicating the horror of the innocent families who would DIE from such evil.
I won't watch any movie (or TV show) where a serial killer is raping and cutting up children and women. I accidentally turned on the TV to "Law & Order: SVU" recently and I was shocked by the language of how the dead woman's body had been mutilated. I shudder to think of the fertile minds they're feeding with such crap.
After saying all that, I'll name some movies I am currently enjoying. The new "Indiana Jones" movie was a lot of fun. Like millions of people, I walked into the theater full of nostalgia for the earlier Indy movies.
I just rented and greatly admired "The Savages" starring Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The ending disappointed me, though. Honestly, I think the screenplay author is still working on it in a garret somewhere, saying, "One more week. I'll have an ending in one more week."
Next week I'll go see "Kung Fu Panda." And in a few days I'll post to the blog about old movies I've been seeing. [I just joined Netflix. A whole new world.]
What movies are YOU seeing?