We had a busy weekend; Borders Rewards had 30 percent off coupons, so we took advantage of it to buy some books. James even got the book by Dick Winters, from Band of Brothers.

Saturday night was spent at the "drive in." Or maybe it should be called a "sit in." :-) Our friends the Kiernans have a projection DVD player and an inflatable screen (it looks like an Aero bed set on its side), and occasionally they invite folks over for a movie after dark, the outfit set up on the driveway with us behind it, and the screen against the garage door. The last time we went to one of these it was very cold, so we didn't have to worry about mosquitoes. This time we hadn't as much arrived and partaken of the hot dogs and chips supplied when the blood-suckers landed on my hands. Ouch! Good thing Off! was to be had or I would have come home looking like a braille reader.

The enjoyable bill was truly old-fashioned: a cartoon, a short subject, and the movie. All we needed was the newsreel. We saw "What's Opera, Doc?" followed by the Wallace and Gromit short "A Close Shave" and finally The Incredibles.

Yesterday while we were bopping around (JoAnn, Borders, Walmart, Hobbytown), we had occasion to observe the most beautiful cloud formations overhead most of the day as the cold front approached. These were pale grey shading all the way to steel grey in towering billows, mesas, and precipices. The contrast was sharply defined and the shapes and the colors very arresting.

The front itself didn't come through until about five o'clock when the skies exploded. The wind shifted from the southwest (our hot winds) and veered to out of the northwest, making it very pleasant this morning. The extraordinary shapes were gone, but the cloud cover stayed overhead like a grey cap until just a few minutes ago, with a bright blue edge all around the horizon. The sky is now washed clean.

Labels: books, friends, movies, weather

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