Weekly Round Up: Christmas Recap

 

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  Let's talk Christmas plus all of the other stuff that we usually talk about.

Weekly Round Up: Christmas Countdown Edition

 

A weekly round up: early retirement life, eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's edition I'm gearing up to make all the cookies, and living large.

Let's Go Places: Postcards from Ottawa - Toronto - Richmond, Virginia - Tallahassee, Florida

 

Friends, this is what I've been up to so far in my early retirement travels.  Four locations, three trips, two countries. 

I enjoyed all of these trips very much, but when I went to write them up as stand alone posts, something didn't feel right.  The highlights of the capitol/legislature buildings are going to get their own posts in the future, so that part already felt like repeated information.  I went to a lot of museums, and no matter how great a museum is, it's pretty tedious blogging content.  And yet I still had things that I wanted to say about these places, so let's try a postcard style write up.

The Great Alfred Hitchcock Rewatch: From Shadow of a Doubt to The Paradine Case

Welcome back to The Great Alfred Hitchcock rewatch!  We've left the experimental period that we explored last time and we're in classic Hollywood of the 40s and back in a Greatest Hits Era.

Weekly Round Up: Snow and SANta

 

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, reads, and early retirement life.  In this week's edition the boys wrapped up the fall semester and came home, I made some beautiful shortbread cookies, Doggo played in the snow, and SANta came to town.

Weekly Round Up: Fireworks and a Snowman

 

A weekly round up: early retirement life, eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  This week I lived my best early retirement life and went on a four day road trip, there were fireworks, and Doggo encountered a giant snowman.

The Great Alfred Hitchcock Rewatch: From Rope to I Confess

Hello and welcome to the fifth installment of the Great Alfred Hitchcock rewatch!  Today we are finishing out the 1950s and headed into the 1940s.  The movies that we're talking about today are four movies that you might not have heard of and one that you probably have.