I was not going to post today, for I have already made two posts in my private blog this afternoon and largely exhausted my blogging time.
However, Google Photos notified me today that it has created a collage of photos from one of my albums, so I would like to showcase that today.
But I have a few other things I can trot out before doing so.
I have just finished an hour-or-so phone conversation with Sandy, the longtime lady friend of one of my oldest surviving friends whom I have not seen since the 1990s. Bill is 73 years old now, I believe, and has been in a full-time care facility over on Vancouver Island for a few years.
I know he and I are never again to likely see one another, but at least Sandy commutes over to see him a few times a year. She rents an apartment in Vancouver.
I know he and I are never again to likely see one another, but at least Sandy commutes over to see him a few times a year. She rents an apartment in Vancouver.
That conversation with Sandy has also reduced my blogging time.
In addition, I finished watching a 2004 Christmas movie that I began late yesterday afternoon via the YouTube 'app' that I have downloaded into our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box.
I curtailed watching all of it yesterday because I wanted to get away to the Canadian Tire outlet approximately 1½ miles from here ─ I do not drive, so I had to walk.
I had only watched something like 33 minutes into the movie, and resumed it late this afternoon today.
The movie? It was titled Angel in the Family.
I think that I will add it to the list of possibles for rewatching around Christmastime if my younger brother brings his girlfriend Bev here for our usual two-day Christmas movie binge, even though the premise of the movie is one outside of my personal belief system ─ i.e., that anyone who has died can return on a visit to loved ones.
My Biblical understanding is that ─ according to the Bible ─ the dead know not anything. No one who has died will live again ─ even as a spirit ─ until after Christ's return and the subsequent Judgment of everyone who has ever lived.
Nevertheless, it was a pleasant enough 'feel-good' movie.
I was familiar enough with Ronny Cox and Meredith Baxter, but not the two actresses who played the daughters of the older couple that those two actors portrayed.
I'm a little surprised to just now learn that Meredith is something more than two years my senior!
Anyway, the two daughters were portrayed by Tracey Needham, who acted as the older sister; and pert Natasha Gregson Wagner who was so strangely familiar to me, but whom I cannot recognize any reason why that would be so when I scan her numerous acting credits.
It was interesting to me that the latter actress is the daughter of Lana Wood.
Everyone did a good job acting ─ no complaints from me in that regard. My only complaint was some faulty sound with the video itself. A scene where the oldest daughter was driving her father back to the small town and the family home they once had, kept fading right out to silence.
I don't think I missed any conversation between father and daughter, but I can't really know.
Incidentally, I watched the movie while indulging in some Appleton Estate Signature Blend rum. I drank the two or three ounces I poured of this Jamaican product straight ─ I don't bother with anything else as a 'mix' anymore.
There was one further reason that I am so late getting to work on this post today ─ I finally set up the Christmas lights all around the front door. It's too elaborate to explain, but it's always quite a job. I'll get around to posting some photos in a very near future post.
Okay, that Google Photos' collage ─ here it is:
The three photos included in the collage are of my wife, and I apparently took the photos exactly eight years ago on this day in 2011.
I would feel remiss if I did not also post the original three photos, so here they are:
And here we are today.
If only things were better....
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