Caturday...Book and Movie...Spring Cleaning Begins

 

The grass is greening up...and visions of gray morels are already dancing in my head.

So...it must be time for Spring Cleaning!

Totally Cinderella Day here...with trash bags and brooms and implements of cleanification. And everything clamoring to be scrubbed...polished...dusted...thrown away....laundered or washed.

The Sofi-Cat is staying well away.

The end of today culminating is a long soak in a warm bubble bath.

Making a long-simmered pot of soup from the remains of the steak...asparagus...brown rice...onions...potatoes and various odds and ends that will find their way into the stock-pot.

...I did bone broth long before it became a thing...

Seriously Millennials...when did this even become a thing?

Now for 59.00 to as high as 145.00, you too, can buy pre-made bone broth.

Isn't that cute?

Or...you could just save the bones from good steak, chicken and such...roast them....toss the whole business into a stock-pot with the odds and ends from your veggie drawer and simmer with water until...gasp...you have fine quality bone broth like Grandma used to make.

Oh...and it is free.

sigh

Tomorrow starts DST...again.

 So, anyway, set your sundials ahead one hour.

And try to convince your cat that 7AM is now 8AM...good luck with that.

Just began my new book

Will review it when I am finished....but thus far quite engaging.

This week's movie

An old one..but new-to-me...with Sir Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin.

Very enjoyable, edge of your seat stuff...and a surprise actor that I didn't know was in this:

Bart the Bear

(now deceased)

The photograph is with his handler for scale.

He was 9 feet tall and weighed 1,500 pounds.

Later he was diagnosed with cancer...underwent two surgeries and was euthanized at 23 in 2000.

I was a Bart Groupie through the years...somehow missed this one.

He was amazing and sometimes terrifying.

This intimidation scene out of The Bear is probably some of his best work. He excelled in throwing up clawsful of gravel and jutting that lower lip out while bellowing and displaying a mouthful of Grizzly teeth.

Hopkins and Baldwin played well off each other as they tried to survive a plane crash, being stuck in the freezing wilderness, a rampaging grizzly bear...and each other.

Very highly recommended!

Now back to the cleaning...have a great week!

Love,

Carla and The Sofi-Cat

 

 

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