Thoughts for the Day?

Mother's Love

The Perfect Cups of Tea

Home Improvement

It's a holiday and guess what, there are sales.  We are looking for new furniture for our living room.  Okay, at least a couple of nice recliners.  While on the search for all the bargains, I came across this poster and wanted to share this with you.  I am making this into a picture to hang in my living room as a gift to my husband for Father's Day.  Since he has a Scottish background, he enjoys a bargain as much as the next guy.   However, I need to tell him this does not count as a piece of furniture.

Happy Father's Day, to my Sweet.

the road less traveled - Amazing photos from Japan

To Mothers and Grandmothers

Happy Mother's Day (and Grandmother's Day) to each one of you. 

My Mother passed away many years ago. 

Now I am Mom (and a Grandmom). 

Enjoy your Day.

 

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Fear or Strength

Favorite Movie Quotes

We were recently talking about famous and favorite movie lines.  Everyone has their own favorite line.  However, here are several that we came up with as our current favorites.  (Also  a couple of our favorite movies are Casablanca and the Godfather movies.)

I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.  Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando)

The Godfather, 1972.

“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”  Michael Corleone  (Al Pacino)  The Godfather, Part II  (1974)

(Be careful of eating an orange around these guys...)

“Go ahead, make my day.”  Harry Callahan  (Clint Eastwood); Sudden Impact, 1983

“Fasten your seatbelts.  It’s going to be a bumpy night.”  Margo Channing  (Bette Davis)

All About Eve, 1950

“You talkin’ to me?”  Travis Bickle  (Robert DeNiro); Taxi Driver, 1976

“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.”  Captain  (Strother Martin)
Cool Hand Luke, 1967

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”  Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore  (Robert Duvall) 

Apocalypse Now, 1979

“I want to be alone.”  Grusinskaya  (Greta Garbo);  Grand Hotel, 1932

“Round up the usual suspects.”  Capt. Louis Renault  (Claude Rains); Casablanca, 1942.

“Here’s looking at you, kid.”  Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart); Casablanca, 1942

“Play it Sam.  Play ‘As Time Goes By.”  Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) Casablanca, 1942.  (Famous misquote “Play it again, Sam.”)

Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

“You know how to whistle, don’t you Steve?  You just put your lips together and blow.” Marie “Slim” Browning (Lauren Bacall), To Have and Have Not, 1944.

"You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”  Martin Brody (Roy Scheider);  Jaws, 1975.

"Badges?  We ain't got no badges.  We don't need no badges.  I don't have to show you any stinking badge."   Gold Hat (Alfonso Bedoya);  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948.

Popularly misquoted as "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!", most likely from Blazing Saddles in which the line was so worded.

“I’ll be back.”  Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger);  The Terminator, 1984

“Houston, we have a problem.”  Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks);  Apollo 13, 1995

“You’ve got to ask yourself one question, ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well do ya, punk?”

Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood);  Dirty Harry, 1971

“Say ‘hello’ to my little friend.”  Tony Montana  (Al Pacino);  Scarface, 1983

 

 "Toto.  I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."  Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland)

The Wizard of Oz, 1939.

“I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too.”  Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) The Wizard of Oz, 1939

"There's no place like home."  Dorothy.  The Wizard of Oz, 1939. 

More Erma Bombeck

"When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway."
 

"I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food"
 

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. "
 

"Housework can kill you if done right."
 

"Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere"
 

The Meaning of Life?!

God created the dog and said:  

'Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past.  For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.'

The dog said: 'That's a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I'll give you back the other ten?'

So God agreed.  

Then God created the monkey and said:

'Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I'll give you a twenty-year life span.'

The monkey said: 'Monkey tricks for twenty years? That's a pretty long time to perform.  How about I give you back ten like the Dog did?'

And God agreed.  

God then created the cow and said:

'You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer's family. For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years.'

The cow said: 'That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years.  How about twenty and I'll give back the other forty?'

And God agreed again.  
   
God finally created humans and said:

'Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I'll give you twenty years.'

But the human said: 'Only twenty years?  Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?'

'Okay,' said God, 'You asked for it.'

So that is why for our first twenty years we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves. For the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family. For the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren. And for the last ten years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.

Life has now been explained to you.

Welcome to Nanabananas new blog

I wanted a blog that I could just write about whatever caught my fancy.  I have been blogging for a while and I enjoy reading other blogs and finding out what they enjoy writing about.  So many topics, so little time.  Hope you will enjoy something off the ol' blog.