Yup... this is how me and a group of 38 individuals spent super bowl sunday... walking and talking! Started by by my friend Maureen, the monthly walk~n~talk is a just that- a group of community members do a 2 1/2 mile or so walk around the community, It is a great way to meet members of the community and get some excercize to boot! Does your community or area have a Walk 'N Talk group?
Well I went to the Empty Bowls event at our community center, and Romeo got a new bowl! I had a great bowl of spicy Habanero Chili from the Elliot Bay Brewery, a local eatery that makes the best chili's and soups. And like I said, I got to keep the bowl, a handcrafted pottery dog bowl, that Romeo got to eat off of Friday night! The Event raised a whole lot of money for our two local food banks- over $8,000 for each food bank last year alone. I figure they did even better since I heard all 1150 bowls were gone, and a number of folks brought their bowls from last year or bypassed the ceramic bowl and had a paper one instead!
Well what do you know. Imagine a T.V. Series that follows the misadventures of a couple who leave's the rat race behind, decides to "homestead" on their land in Surbington, a Suburb of London, and in the meantime drive their Uppercrust Neighbor, Margo Ledbetter, absolutely nuts? Sound like some homesteading bloggers we all know? One of the funniest (IMO) T.V. shows ever, Introduced audiences to some of the best actors Britain ever produced (Penelope Keith, Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal and Paul Eddington) as the Goods and their high class neighbors the Ledbetters. People living in the United Kingdom know this program as The Good Life. This was how it was released and is the original title of the show. However, when it was released in the United States, the title was changed to Good Neighbors. Why the change then? There was an American sitcom called The Good Life starring Larry Hagman and Donna Mills. It ran from September 1971 to January 1972 on NBC. While it was not running when the British version came to The United States, the name was changed so as not to be confused with this earlier American show. Anyway if you are lucky enough to live in the KBTC broadcast area, or have Netflix -get the Good Neighbors, you may thank me later. Great news for Puget Sound residents- KBTC PBS channel 28 (Channel 3 or Channel 12 on comcast cable) Is showing a Marathon of "The Good Neighbor" on Christmas day! from 8:30pm to midnight 5 episodes of this grand import from the BBC.
A snippet from one of the Good Neighbors Christmas Show and their home made "Crackers"
