Saturday morning walk around the lake. It’s so low this year, it’s not really a “lake” but more like a meadow with some water in the middle. It was still really neat to walk all the way around it for the first time (and my parents moved up there three years ago!) We spotted a group of wild turkeys (silly birds), and some pretty white egrets, some fishermen knee deep in the water (apparently there’s still some fish to be caught?!) and we even walked right past the biggest king snake any of us had ever seen. It was also the first snake my dad’s seen this year (they have rattlers up there, and thankfully we didn’t see any of those!) The one good thing about our king snake sighting? He looked a bit plump, and you know, they’re the good kind (as if that exists) that eat rattlesnakes, and so. I’m (semi) okay with seeing them. But still. It’s a snake. So. I was still petrified, please don’t get me wrong.
We went for pizza for lunch, and on the way home dad drove us to Pardee Lake and on the dam road (yes, the jokes with that one were never-ending) and the marina. Isn’t it gorgeous?!
And those were our weekend adventures. We also watched Anna Karenina on friday night, and none of us could get into it. I don’t know, it was boring, I hate to say? My mom really wanted to watch it when it was out in theatres this past December, and we almost went to see it together, and so, I’ve had this urge to watch it lately, since we never did end up going. I just felt this need to watch it and to love it, you know? And so we watched it, and I just kept stubbornly forcing myself to pretend to like it, almost like I was letting my mom down if I didn’t? I really wanted to like it, I did. But I just was really disappointed. And then I felt bad about not liking it. I know, I probably make no sense right now. Anyway, the movie was too confusing- trying too hard but also not trying hard enough to get anything across. And it made me think that maybe I would like it better if I read the book? So it’s on my list of books to read soon. That is definitely something that would make my momma proud.
Have you read Anna Karenina and/or seen the movie? What were your thoughts?
What’d you do this weekend?
Do you like snakes, or are you petrified of them, like me?
xo
Looks like you had a great weekend ! The view looks amazing !
Madeline | Its a Mads Mads World
What a view! Definitely good running motivation :)
If you found the movie boring, good luck with reading the book!
Sounds like you had a fun weekend! I hate snakes. Like I am terribly afraid of them. We don’t have any poisonous snakes where I live, yet I still have a major phobia of them. Like I can’t even handle watching a show on the Discovery channel if they show snakes cause I will have nightmares about them. Sad, but true. My weekend was wonderfully full. I got my tan on at the pool with my bestie on Saturday, then in the evening my hubby and I watched the movie Oblivion and had ice cream sundaes with friends from church. Today included a family birthday party complete with two hand touch football game. Yes. Good times were had by all. :)
I like your motivation..:) I lost my dad to cancer three years ago. And I remember him wanting to see Toy Story 3. But didnt make it was too sick in the hospital. So I bought the dvd and still havent seen it cause we were supposed to watch it together. Anyways I really like your blogs. They inspire me. :)
What a beautiful view! lucky girl. but oh man, I don’t do snakes no matter how nice they are!
Pardee lake is beautiful! I can’t get over how pretty that picture is. I totally get what you’re saying! I think your mom would just be happy you watched it :) You tried, but sometimes not all movies are our favorites. When I don’t like a movie, I start to over analyze it, and figure out the plot and everything about it lol gives me something to do (other than wish it was over), and in the end I for some reason end up appreciating it. Scared to death of snakes!! They will be the death of me!
PETRIFIED OF THOSE THINGS!!! I don’t even like to call them by name, I like to call them “S”‘s. I’ve lived in my house in the country for over 2 years now this is the 3rd summer and I have heard from neighbors that there were alot of them and I’ve only seen one little one dead (THANK YOU JESUS) in the road just this summer. I don’t care if they eat mice and are good to have around even the big black ones that we have around here in Mid Missouri the only good ones are dead ones but I don’t even care to see those. We have cooperhead’s, which I have seen in person (a shiver just ran down my spine typing that word) Yeah I don’t like them at all. I have nightmare’s about them which I will probably have one now that I’m writing about them. LOL :) Your view this weekend was beautiful!! I love walks/runs around lakes and in parks its peaceful and motivating as long as I don’t run into one of those things :)
First love your husbands shirt! Go Giants!! We have seen a lot of rattlers up here in the bay area, I try and avoid the hills this time of year because I don’t want one to bite our pup!
Beautiful pictures!!
I saw the movie without reading the book, too, and also wondered if I might have liked it more if I had read the book first. I know that the style was intentional and unique (with sort of odd pacing and dramatic attention to some details while skimming over things that seemed more important, like conversation), but the effect of that style left me feeling like I was missing something important throughout the entire movie… Good for you for giving it another try and reading the book! :)