Daughters and weddings

My oldest daughter came by this afternoon to talk about "The Wedding".  Tucked inside a plastic shopping bag were three wedding cake magazines and a photo album depicting towering white and ivory cakes decorated with a myriad of roses, weaves, and beading - not to mention water fountains, duck ponds and castles - all topped with multicolored flowers and cheesy bride and groom figurines.  What a complicated process it is for a young girl to chose the wedding cake of her dreams.  She yearns for simplicity, yet she cannot take her eyes off the grandeur of hundreds of tiny handmade roses and delicately place garden gates adorning the more glitzy over-the-top concoctions.   Page after page, we oogled and awed until the choice was down to two or three.  Our favorite, the simple yet elegant, had been printed out from her computer from a wedding site she'd joined online.  The picture was fuzzy, the detail hard to see, and as she searched online for the original, I thought my heart would stop when I suddenly saw the cake of my dreams.  The cake of all cakes, the show-stopper, the most tantalizing thing I'd seen on the Internet in months....a Krispy Kreme Doughnut Cake!  How imaginative!  A masterpiece!  A mountain of mouth-watering, sugar-spun, the-South's-gonna-rise-again Krispy Kreme doughnuts decked out in ribbons and flowers.   I tried.  I really did.  But she wouldn't have it - wouldn't even consider it.  Too bad...my next suggestion was cheesecake ;)

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Sunday musings

Another damp, dreary Sunday and if you could see our backyard, you'd swear we live in Louisiana.   It has turned into a virtual swamp that seems to appeal to no one but the puppy who has found true happiness by wallowing in the mud like a piglet, and digging up long-ago treasures buried by dogs whose ghosts she chases from fencepost to fencepost.  

We've enjoyed a quiet weekend at home, neither of us motivated to do more than eat, nap and watch tv.  Friday evening we rented two movies - City by the Sea with Robert DeNiro and The Caveman's Valentine starring Samuel L. Jackson.  Three stars for first and four for the latter.  The Caveman's Valentine is one of the best films I've seen in a long time.   Jackson's portrayal of Romulus Ledbetter, an inner-city cave-dwelling  paranoid schizophrenic,  was simply brilliant.  The cinematography was elegant and hauntingly beautiful.  Definitely not a film I'll soon forget and highly recommended to anyone looking for something a bit different.

We also watched part of a Three Dog Night special on PBS last night.  In 1970-something, junior high consisted of sneaking whiskey, cigarettes and kisses, while listening to "Jeramiah was a bullfrog".  We loved to have our fun...

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