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CallieOK · September 15, 2024, 10:32:32 AM

Marilyne, Thank you for asking! All is well with my family and me. However, the past several weeks I've had too many things coming at me - business decisions, various appointments and various helpers and visitors coming by. It seems like a long time since I've had a "leisurely" day.

The twins with who (whom?) Miss Ellen nannies have started pre-kindergarten and so she's working more shifts at Loft and takes care of them in the afternoon until parents get home - sometimes overnight on weekends. She has a nice group of friends to socialize with. One works for the NYC Metro Library system and Ellen is part of a book group connected with that. No auditions that I've heard about.

Miss Emily (well - really "Mrs. Emily" since she's been married for over a year) hopes to open her own chiropractic clinic by the first of the year. She specializes in pre-natal and pediatric treatments, so is including a game/reading room.

Sir Carson and Brittany are parents of my now 4 months old Great Grandson. I have seen him twice but gets lots of pictures. He's a big boy (15 pounds and long legs) and is beginning to really react to people.
Have I mentioned that they moved back from Texas a year ago and live in the same area as their parents and Emily? He is an assistant superintendent with a big local construction company and is just finishing up a project. He may have to commute to the next one but doesn't have to move out of the area.

Dil is feeling good and all recent tests have been great. She/#1 son are baby-sitting during the day while Brittany finishes on-line classes and a paper she needs to get her degree.

I did have somewhat of a "leisurely" day yesterday. Watched the Oklahoma State football game at 11:00 and the University of Oklahoma game at 2:00. Both teams won!!!
The local PBS station had a really interesting movie on last night. "The Woman In Gold" was a BBC movie from 2015 and was based on a true story of an Austrian Jewish woman who had escaped to America during WW2 and who was trying to get a painting of a relative back that the Nazis had stolen. Helen Mirren was the lead and she - and the story - were very good.

I'll watch church service on tv this morning and then plan on trying to finish at least one of the several e-books I have checked out.

MarsGal · September 15, 2024, 01:25:45 PM

Yes! I remember the movie being mentioned a while back. The formal name of the painting is Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, but I didn't know it's history before the sale or much of anything about Klimt until I read Edmund de Waal's book The Hare with Amber Eyes. The book is about a 264 piece collection of Netsuke carvings and how it came to be in Vienna, was hidden away during the war, and how it finally made its way back to Japan. But, it also had quite a bit to say about the Vienna art scene and artists before and during the war. Klimt was the most prominent among those discussed in the book.

Finally got my eyedrops, BTW.

Marilyne · September 15, 2024, 02:46:21 PM

Callie and Mars - I plan to check my PBS channel, and see if "The Woman in Gold", is available on-demand? If so, I'll start watching it this afternoon or tomorrow.

Callie - Happy to hear that your dil is doing so well! Wonderful that she and your son are helping with baby-sitting chores. Also wonderful news that Mrs. Emily will soon be opening her own pediatric clinic. Miss Ellen still sounds happy, living in NYC.

Mars - Glad the elusive eye drops prescription has finally been filled! My husband will have minor eye surgery this Friday, for a problem called Ptosis. This is an eyelid that has lost the ability to open and close correctly, and "droops" down and covers the eye. A common problem for older folks.

Oops, just remember that today is Sunday, not Monday, so football will be on TV all afternoon. I'll have to wait to for the PBS movie.

CallieOK · September 15, 2024, 03:45:24 PM

Marilyne,movie was on my local PBS channel. My TV Guide magazine didn't list it.

Marsgal, PBS guide says movie is "...the true story of Maria Altmann...who battles the Austrian government to recover her valuable artwork". She talks a lot about Aunt Adele.
(#2 son/dil walked in and I didn't have time to finish...)
Apparently, Maria and and Adele were very close when Maria was a child. The painting was shown, too; frankly , I thought it was ugly. Notes at the end said a billionaire named Lauder bought it and it's "currently" (2015) in a gallery in New York.

Marilyne · Reply #23614 - Re: Norms Bait and Tackle

Callie: Thanks for the review of "The Woman in Gold". Interesting subject, and I plan to put it on my long list of things to watch. Many others on my list that have been there for a long time, that I would like to see first. So many movies - so little time! I admit that I do enjoy watching some of the trashier oldies! I saw "Written on The Wind", a couple of days ago on TCM. That movie, from 1956, has it all! If you haven't seen it in recent years - sit back and enjoy! Robert Stack, Lauren Bacall, Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone . . . who won Best Supporting Actress, that year.

Mars: Hope your eye surgery was a success, and that you're on the road to recovery? Are you able to read yet, or just enjoying your audio books? Bring us up to date on anything else of interest in your life?

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