There is chocolate flavored calcium.
SUN thing to feel good about
what are the calc. suppliments that are like caramels.
I just watched The Girl with thePearlEarring.
too bad that painting was stolen
Didnt you just love that movie! The book was great too. I have it on my mantle. (not the stolen one:-)
Sorry for hijacking :-0
The painting was in a small museum gallery and was stollen, cant remember might have been in the seventies.
This is as much a general discussion as solstice topic. Feel free.
OK I went to Google to see what date the painting was stolen. I couldNOT find any refrence to the theft, so forget it.
I must have it confused with another masterpiece in the Gardner collection.
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I thought it was very imaginative that someone could write a book about a painting. That they could just think up a whole life story about this person, who noone knows, just by the look on the painted face. She should write one about the Mona Lisa :-)
Too bad about it being stolen. I would have loved to see it.
Have to revise the stolen myth.
I was wrong.
Its not the first time a book was based on a painting.
There was a huge tomb writtin about Michael Angelo.
"The Agony and the Extacy" Starred Charlton Heston.
I think it was a book first also
I saw the A& E. Didnt know it was fiction. Love Charlton Heston.
When they go that far back in history there arent many records and the ones that there are are prey to insects and dekay.
Modern times are easier to research.
I liked the Vann Gogh one too. Lust For Life. And the one about Frieda Kahlo. Shoot, I just love movies. The older the better.
Yes I have seen all of them and there is a new movie for TV about Georgia Okeefe
Really? I'll do a search for it.
Jo Ann and Jada - I read the book, The Girl with the Pearl Earring, but didn't know there was a movie version. I liked the book. Glad to know there's a movie!
Louise (who also takes D and the Bs)
Never saw or even heard of that The Girl With The Pearl Earring, JoAnn.
Speaking of chocolate, I'm having chocolate ice cream right now. It's Cumberland Farms Chocolate Lover's Passion. Has really yummy chocolate truffles in it. Now that's what I'm talking about! Oh, and couple it with peanut butter and you've really got a winning combo.
Karen
Oh that sounds good Karen.
They make chocolate flavored vitamins for kids.
Wouldnt you think a healthfood company wouldnt use chocolate on its vitamins?
Just one way to start a bad habit,
Cocoa is very healthy
no supplements here only the little baby asprin in the morning if i remember - wife takes enough supplements for the two of us.
No chocolate vitamins for me---I take gummy fruit ones---yes, I do! I have a hard time swallowing meds, so I chew those yummy vitamins every morn---makes me smile---Karen, The Girl with the Pearl Earring is a great book---couldn't put it down---I'm now starting Three Cups of Tea, about a mountain climber starting schools in Afghanistan.
They make so many kinds of vitamins now, kids have the gummy ones..Disney Princesses and Toy Story
My calcium pills can be chewed. That is good as they are horse pill size. Other meds except the B6 are small, including tha anti-b I have started because of the tick bite. Good because it is for 3 months. Better than lymne disease although the dentist told me this morning he got lymne anyway & had to be on it for 3 more months.
All joking aside, chocolate, especially the dark kind, is full of antioxidants. It's some of the other stuff they put into it that's not good for you.
Oh, Marilyn, I have that book, Three Cups Of Tea. I have to start reading it. It sounded very good. Have you ever read The Kite Runner? I couldn't put that one down. Then there's another book by the same author called. A Thousand Splendid Suns. Both are great, about life in Afghanistan, written by and Afghani writer.
Who got Lyme? Your dentist? It's a terrible disease if you don't get the antibiotics started soon enough.
Karen
I'm making notes to get these books. I have A Thousand Splendid Suns but havent started it yet. The Kite Runner is now a movie, saw the previews and it looked very good. Three Cups of Tea, going on my list. We should start a book thread.
I can't swallow big pills either. Doc gave me some liquid vitamins. When I got them, they were the same kind Mom used to give me as a child. Taste like candy. yum.
Nuts4DL-Yes. Chocolate is good. Its the common brands that are not so healthy cause they put wax in it. A higher end brand of dark chocolate has the most nutrition. The one I used to buy they don't sell here anymore so I'm looking for something else.
I spent a few years in Iceland where there were long days of night -sunlight only between 11am-2pm and then switching to long days of sunlight without it ever getting really dark, just a twilight like dusk from 11pm-2am. Both are very taxing on the psyche and body. They offered free sun booth sessions. I never had one but some said it seemed to lift the spirits somewhat.
Re Lymne dentist was put on the anti biotics which in his case didn't do the job so had to have another session. there was 'daylight' time during WWII and as a kid I didn't even notice it. But then I walked to school which was only a block away.
Karen ,I've read both books---did not like A Thousand Splendid Suns---just too violent--Kite Runner was better. Good luck with the Lyme, Iris---I have bacterial arthritis, caused when I was bitten by a tick 15 years ago---the rheumatologist never called it Lyme---just said the tick triggered the arthritis!
DH had it as a boy (before it got its current name). He lost a grade in school & his parents were told that he had 'infectious arthitis'. The anti-biotics I am taking are an attempt to ward it off. Get there first with those before the disease hits. TS suns not my book either. 3 cups of tea is marvelous.
Earlier sunsets hit me in August & September. The dog insists on supper at her time not standard time, lol.
I have skylights, they're great except for the hot summer and the one in the bedroom wakes me in heavy storms.
I hear you about changing the clocks and dinnertime. The crazy ole cat will be in a snit until Christmas.
LOL Andy & Dnut---my dale starts pawing me at 4pm---his stomach is still on daylight savings, too---hard to explain to him he must wait another hour to eat, he's not hearing it.
Wow - August is pretty early, Andy. You must be really sensitive. I really recommend the full-spectrum lights. Made a big difference for me. Also, the vit D.
Sarah knows the words 6 O'Clock almost as well as Hungry?. She's catching on now, lol.
Victor, I notice the shorter days but they don't depress me. It's more the loss of time outdoors. The house faces south with plenty of light all day. The bougainvillea and hibiscus are blooming.
The crazy ole cat knows 'not time' not that it keeps him from expressing that it's 'always time' though.
Oh, yes---my 2 pooches like to camp out in front of the fridge! Aren't tropicals nice this time of year, Andy? I've brought my hibiscus in----my amaryllis, too.
The Amaryllis come in around Halloween. They rest on the basement floor until the new year when they get re-potted.
The Bougainvillea is looking good. It's been in the kitchen sky light for decades, kinda bonsai.
Pretty!
Very prettiful!
What a great idea!
Love your bougie, Andy! I just fertilized mine here and can't wait until the blooms start. I am going to buy a purple trellis type bougie next week while my son is visiting, because he gave us a gift certificate for one last Christmas. I'd like for him to be with us when we pick it out.
What a beautiful bougainvillea!
I bought six tropical hibiscus in a co-op this year. They had gotten huge out by the pond in pots, and a frost was predicted, so I bought them in the bathroom and put them under the skylight, just to see if I could keep them going for awhile. They have flourished in there, so I guess they will stay the winter. Blooming like mad. I'd never actually seen the really pretty tropical ones before, only the grocery store types which are not nearly as lovely.
I would love a lavender one.
Polly, your bathroom must be huge and gorgeous with the skylight and hibiscus.