Battlestar Galactica (1978)

Forest inspired this post!

The original Battlestar Galactica was only on TV for 1 season in 1978. It was a great show! Glen A. Larson was the creator/writer behind the series.

This is what Wikipedia says about him and Battlestar:

"Larson later secured a then-unprecedented $1 million per episode budget for Battlestar Galactica. Originally, the series was intended to be called Adama's Ark, and the show incorporated many themes from Mormon theology, such as marriage for "time and eternity" and a "council of twelve." Larson is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[1] Larson had been working on it since 1968, and Gene L. Coon had been providing guidance and mentoring to him through the writing of its earliest incarnations. Larson is credited with coining the word "battlestar," a contraction of the phrase "line-of-battle starship," after being convinced to rename Adama's Ark to include the word "star" in the title in some way."

Here is one version of the narration from the beginning of the show:

"There are those who believe... that life here... began out there. Far across the universe. With tribes of humans... who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians... or the Toltecs... or the Mayans... that they may have been the architects of the Great Pyramids... or the lost civilizations of Lemuria... or Atlantis... Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man... who even now fight to survive... far, far away amongst the stars..."

You can purchase the whole series from Amazon for a crazy price! I have I think the first episode on DVD.

A Tribute to Yoda!

Today, Eddie and I were watching Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith. The original trilogy is still better than the others, but you do get to see more of Yoda. He was nicer in Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi though.

Yoda is probably my favorite Star Wars character. He's cute and loveable in the originals and he's fiesty and wise in the newer ones.

I heard a faith promoting rumor once that when George Lucas was coming up with the character of Yoda, he asked someone who the wisest man in the world was at the time and this person told him, "Spencer W. Kimball." Granted at the time of Star Wars, President Kimball was the President of the Church, but I really doubted this story. I did see a resemblance though.

Sometime in the 90's when my nieces and nephews were watching Empire Strikes Back, I told them that Pres. Kimball was the model for Yoda. They didn't believe me so I grabbed "The Biography of Spencer W. Kimball" off their book shelf and held it next to the TV when Yoda was on. It was hilarious. Their eyes got very big!!!!

Of course if you google Yoda you will find out that President Kimball was not the model for Yoda. Yoda was created mostly to look like the make-up artist, Stuart Freeborn, who invented him and Albert Einstein.

This is Stuart Freeborn and he does look like Yoda!!!!

I still think Yoda looks like Pres. Kimball and he was the wisest man in the world when Empire Strikes Back was made.

The Insane Garden

So here are some more pictures of the garden. They are upclose and personal shots!

This is a zuccini! I'm going to wait at least one more day before picking it. I'm afraid if I wait any longer I'll have a torpedo!

This is a crooked-neck squash. I'm beginning to like them more than I like zuccini! They both taste good! The zuccini plant is pushing this plant over. It's growing more out of the box than in the box!

These are I think Yellow pear tomatoes. My grandparents used to grow these. I love them!!!

This is a big beef steak tomato! They're actually a couple of them. They will be DE-LI-CIOUS!!!!

This is a lady bug on the cilantro! The cilantro is as out-of-control as the whole garden!!! Pretty flowers though!

Here is another crooked-neck squash in the middle of the yellow pear tomatoes!!!! There may be some in-breeding going on. I may create a squashto or a tomuash!!!

These are the purple peppers! I didn't even know they existed. We're planning to grill shish-ka-bobs on the 4th with these and the zuccini and whatever else is ripe!! Mmm Good!

You Reap What You Sow!

Woo Hoo!!! We picked our first two zuccinis today!

Yes, I'm standing behind our jungle we call a garden.

This is what it looked like just 2 1/2 weeks ago.

Our garden is insane. We can't even find our green peppers. The cherry tomatoes have taken over. We have 3 cute little purple peppers!!! We may harvest them tomorrow. One of our grape tomatoes is turning red!!!! There are so many crooked neck squash, but they're still little. The tomatoes are just outrageous!!!

You'll have to let me know if you'd like any of our harvest! Eddie doesn't eat most vegetables and the rest of us can only eat so much!!!!

It's fun to grow stuff. I just need to take better care of the garden, it gets out of control way too quick! I think I need to go find my gardening for dummies book!

Our 2nd Anniversary Trip

Here we are on our 2nd Anniversary, outside of the St. George Temple

where we were married on June 24, 2006

Now I'll tell you about our trip!

It started off with one night at the Las Vegas Hilton.

Eddie had never stayed at this hotel, but I have several times.

Because of all our travels we have reached Gold Member status with the Hilton Honors program. Our room was upgraded to a premium room. They have just been remodeled and the room was beautiful!

One of the main reasons we stayed at the Hilton was because I wanted to take Eddie's to Quark's.

It's the restaurant/bar/lounge in the Star Trek the Experience part of the hotel. I ate at Quark's six years ago and it was a good experience and I wanted Eddie to try their RIBS! So, after checking in we went to dinner! The Flaming Ribs of Targ were as good as I remember. They have a Szechuan BBQ sauce with cilantro peanut pesto sauce on them! DE-LI-CIOUS!!! I wasn't sure if Eddie would like them, so he ordered the Steak and then we shared! He LOVED the ribs! We might actually go back there someday on our travels. Who knows!

The next morning we drove up to the Las Vegas temple and looked around and then drove by Nellis Air Force Base. Eddie was happy because there were jets taking off!!!

We arrived in St. George in time to check in for one night at the Fairfield Inn. It was cheaper than the Hilton Garden Inn, but I love the Garden Inn! We were trying to be a little more economical! Eddie always says we can stay at Motel 6, but I say I'm too good for Motel 6. A little prideful, I know!

Our anniversary morning we woke up and walked to Cracker Barrel. My favorite!

Eddie got the Sunrise Sampler and I got the French Toast combo. Their French Toast is so good!

We went to the Temple! It's always wonderful to be back in "our" temple. We had a great time!

We asked a sweet senior missionary to take our picture!
After the temple we ate at Olive Garden and then we checked in to our Honeymoon suite at
This is where we spent the first two days of married life and our anniversary last year!

I love the Melissa suite! Eddie doesn't like the steep narrow stairs that you get to climb to the Melissa Suite, but deep down, he really likes it too!


There were roses, chocolate covered strawberries and sparkling cider waiting for us, and a gift!

Some was part of the romance package and the others were left there by our Best Man/Maid of Honor Julie Clegg! She's the best!!!

These next three pictures I'll let you use your imagination for!
Yes, Eddie gave me permission to post them.
Okay! Calm down! It's not at all what you're thinking!


Well shiver me timbers!

The next day we went for a drive and ended up at Tuacahn! Eddie had never been there and he was impressed with the scenery. Before we left we got tickets for that nights show!

Then we went and saw Kung Foo Panda. The traditional anniversary gift for the 2nd anniversary is China, so that was our China gift!!!! It works!

Tuacahn!!!!!!

Eddie swears he doesn't like Broadway Musicals! Funny thing, he sings songs from Broadway Musicals all the time!!! I knew he liked the movie so I figured he'd live through the play! I was surprised that he said we could go see it!!! We took Julie with us!

We were back at the Fairfield Inn for the rest of our stay! Thursday morning we woke up and we had a completely free day! I asked Eddie what he wanted to do.

His answer about knocked me out of bed!!!

Let's go get tickets to see Le Miz!

So we did! Eddie, Julie and I were back at Tuachan Thursday night for Le Miz! I had never seen it before. I knew some of the music from it, but that's it! It was pretty decent! Eddie even liked it! I said it was a play he could relate too!!!! He did say, once was enough and he didn't need to see it again! I really think he is beyond impressed with the venue more so than the actual productions! Fireworks both nights and when they turn the lights off between scenes the stars, (in the sky) are awesome!!!!

Friday was Sandy's pamper day!!!! Eddie said I had to go to the spa before we went home.

Julie took the day off and we spent a good chunk of the day at:

The Works is the only way to go!

Then we went to lunch and shopping at 7 different stores!

What did Eddie do while we were doing all this....

He did two sessions at the temple and ran an errand for Julie!

We left St. George this morning! Boo hoo!

It is nice to be back home.

A hilarious note:

My anniversary gift to Eddie was tickets to see Wicked!!!!

We saw it March 17, 2007, but he said earlier this year he'd go see it again!

So on the 12th of July, we'll back in Hollywood for Wicked!!

I guess this was our Musical anniversary!!!!

I can't wait to see what this next year will bring!

It's always an adventure!!!!

Tomorrow!!! Woo Hoo!

We are so excited! Tomorrow we leave for St. George!

We get to go away for almost a whole week!

This is a very cool picture of the Temple and Visitor Center!

Tuesday will be our 2nd Anniversary!
We were married on June 24, 2006
Sometime after 4:00 p.m.
In the room directly above us.
Those are our windows!
At night, when we drive by,
we can see our chandelier.

We look so young! It was only 2 years ago!!!
We were very happy then, and are extremely happy now!
Two years has only made us love each other more!
We're still walking the path of life
Hand in Hand!

We plan to continue into our twilight years! And then into eternity! Like we've always said, "Forever isn't long enough!"