Grammys Corgi Country

Today was cold and wet. We got more rain and a lot of mist, which will be very good for the grain we had planted in the pasture last week. I hope that this will keep up, off and on, for the next month or two, and we should get a very nice harvest.

Unfortunately, for the Corgis, we weren’t able to take them out to the park as we had planned. Corgis are a bit on the short side (very little ground clearance) and running in wet grass leaves about half of their body wet, and, like I said, it was COLD out here today.

We ended up staying at home and watching the first season of “Eureka” DVD’s that I had gotten Hubby for Christmas. It’s a pretty interesting show, I think. We like Sci-Fi books, movies, and TV shows, and this one has all of the things we like in it… good character interaction, humor, new and interesting story concepts. That last is one thing that is often lacking in so many of today’s shows. Too many are sort of “reruns” of other shows with different people playing the same parts and having the same basic storyline.

That is also a BIG part of the problem with so many of the movies they make today. Half the time, the producers seem to think that making an old movie over and just making it bloodier, sexier, or scarier is a good thing. We don’t go to the show very often anymore, and THAT is one of the main reasons.

Another problem is that someone will decide that some book is good enough to make into a movie… often an old classic book that is really well loved, with a great storyline and message, but then they decide to “change” it until it hardly resembles the original story! THAT is very irritating! For instance, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” was done very well and followed the storyline almost perfectly. We, and everyone else that I heard that saw it, were thrilled with it. THEN, they decided to make a sequel, and they DID NOT follow the storyline nearly as well, and made it more of a war story. The original storyline had a really good message to it, but that barely came through in the “Prince Caspian” movie.

At least it wasn’t as bad as the second Batman movie with the Penguin… I think there were a BUNCH of parents that were upset with that movie, as it had been advertised through McDonald’s and most thought it was supposed to be a family movie… I grabbed my kids and WALKED OUT about a quarter of the way through that trash!

We NEED more good family movies with storylines that are encouraging to people who go and pay good money to watch them… things like “Sea Biscuit,” “The Incredibles,” “Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” all of the Veggie Tales Movies, and “Cars.” Movies that older kids and families can watch like, “Ironman,” “Spiderman,” etc. are also great… They didn’t use a lot of blood and guts or foul language in them, but they had great action scenes and stories that weren’t far off the original mark.

That’s the main reason we get movies that we can rent on DVD. WE can pick and choose what WE want instead of having to listen to so much garbage that is on the TV or in so many movies. It’s another example, I guess, of making wise choices of what we put in our brains, as I mentioned a couple of blogs ago.

Have a great weekend…