March Recap and the Academy Awards Best Picture nominees

Hey guys!  I'm going to do a quick March recap even though March isn't quite over yet!  And then I'm going to quickly go over the Best Picture nominees because Kevin and I are going to try to watch at least some of them.  

Our March was mostly uneventful, so this recap shouldn't take long.  One fun thing I've been doing this month is growing some salad greens in the AeroGarden I got for Christmas!  It's been pretty fun to watch the progress, because salad greens grow FAST!  Here's some photos of the progress: 

After about 3 days I could start to see some little leaves if I looked down into the holes of the pods

After a few more days, the lettuces were pushing through and almost touching the plastic domes!

Then it was time to take the plastic domes off 4 of them because they were really starting to grow! 

Then they really started to go nuts!  

And here's pretty much where we are now!  I've been eating some already, and it's delicious. 

Our St. Patrick's Day was pretty uneventful this year.  We had a few Guinness beers, and watched a few episodes of this old travel show called The Getaway that had some Ireland episodes.  Oh and I put out our little St. Patrick's Day decorations! 

We've had some lovely Spring weather in March!  Guinness has been looooving it, and I think he is super over the Winter weather this year too. We've been going for a lot of walks on any nice days, and we've also just been hanging out outside, including in our screened room in our backyard. We bought Guinness a little platform bed for the screened room to get him up off the gross floor out there for his napping, and he was hesitant about it at first but now he's loving it! 

Here's Guinness napping on his platform bed! 

And now for the list of the Academy Awards Best Picture nominees, with what I know about them so far (not a lot...).  We haven't seen any of them yet, and I don't think we'll even try to see them all this year, but probably most of them. 

1. Nomadland - I know this one stars Frances McDormand, and she's nominated for Best Actress, and she plays a nomad.  Oh and it's on Hulu I think. I've heard it's good?  So I think we'll definitely try to see this one. 

2. Mank - I know this has something to do with Citizen Kane, it stars Gary Oldman (who is nominated for Best Actor), and it's on Netflix.  That's pretty much all I know about this one, and honestly I'm not super excited for it, but maybe I will be if I watch a trailer or something. 

3. Promising Young Woman - I know almost nothing about this movie, except that it's supposed to be AMAZING.  I kinda want to go in blind for this one, so I don't really want to find out more about it or see a trailer or anything.  I do know that it stars Carey Mulligan, and she's just amazing in everything she's in (and she's nominated for Best Actress!). 

4. The Trial of the Chicago 7 - I know that this one is based on a true story of the trial for some anti-Vietnam War protestors in Chicago in the 1960s. I know this one is on Netflix, and quite a few people have told me it's amazing and I need to see it.  So, I'm excited to see it! 

5. The Father - I don't think I'm up for watching this one.  I know it stars Anthony Hopkins, and I know it's about his character suffering from dementia.  I'm sure it's great and I'm sure Anthony Hopkins is amazing in it, but I just don't think I'm up for it. 

6. Minari - I know that this one stars Glenn from The Walking Dead (and he's nominated for Best Actor! Yay!), and it's about a Korean family that moves to a farm in America.  That's all I know, but I've heard it's AMAZING so I'm excited to see this one!!!

7. Judas and the Black Messiah - I don't know anything about this one except that it stars the lead actor from Get Out (and he was amaaaazing in Get Out).  I definitely want to watch a trailer for it to get an idea of what it's about!  

8. Sound of Metal - I know this is about a heavy metal musician that loses his hearing, and I've heard nothing but great things about this movie!  Quite excited to see this one too.  And it stars one of the guys that was in Rogue One (loved his character in Rogue One!), and he's nominated for Best Actor too!  Yay! Oh and I think this one is on Amazon Prime?

So, that's all 8 of the Best Picture nominees!  I think I want to aim for at least 5 of the movies, but we'll see what happens! 

I hope you're all doing really well!  Happy Spring!  Get ready for tons of flower and bird pictures coming soon!!  :) 

February recap

Hey guys!  I didn't post at all in February so I wanted to make sure to get in a post before March was over!  I'll do a separate post about March.  Our February was pretty uneventful except for a whole lot of Winter weather, and Valentine's Day.  This Winter was insaaaaane, and we had so much snow.  And it was so cold for so long that the snow really just stuck around for a super long time.  Usually it'll kinda melt and go away, but it just stayed and stayed.  There are many yards in our neighborhood that still have a bit of snow.  Here are some pictures from our Winter weather in February, and then I'll talk about our Valentine's Day! 

Look at how deep the snow is!  Guinness was having trouble running in it to play frisbee. 

But, he thought it was SUPER fun to dig in the snow and bury his frisbee! 

Here he is on a different day running for a frisbee!  Look at that focus! 

Leaping to catch a frisbee! 

Jumping up to try to catch a snowball! Look at how deep the snow is! 

He was loving the snowballs! 

Look at all of these crazy icicles!  They were all over our house, and some were HUGE!

And now for our Valentine's Day!  We wanted to get out of the house but still be super safe, so we drove to Hershey, PA to Troegs Brewery because they have been GREAT about curbside pickup, and they had some really great Valentine's Day specials.  So, we drove there and picked up our curbside order, and then we drove to a picnic area to eat it!  It was FREEZING on Valentine's Day (the high was in the 20s), so we ate pretty fast, but it was still really fun!  And then we drove back home and watched The Thing (the 1982 version OF COURSE.  It's so amazing). 

It was braised short ribs, cheesy polenta, and roasted parsnips. It was SO delicious! 

And we brought paper plates to eat on, and we split a beer!  It was freezing, but still lovely.

The Thing!  Kurt Russell just being amazing. If you haven't seen this movie, you should definitely watch it as soon as you possibly can.  

So, that was our February!  Tons of snow and winter weather all month, and we had some fun celebrating Valentine's Day.  I'll do another post very soon about our March, and also talk about some of the Academy Awards Best Picture nominees because we're going to try to watch at least some of those!  I hope you've all been doing really well!  Talk to you soon!