The Leprechaun Apocalypse

That name is the first thing I thought of when we saw this paint scheme on out dining room walls. Fortunately it's what was under the last bit of dated wallpaper that survived the eight years we have been in this house and was recently removed last week. The wallpaper was dark teal with pink and purple flowers, probably part of some dixie-belle Dolly Parton line of wall treatments.

We are back on our list of house projects, since we have a few guests in late October we are focused on getting some rooms done. The dining room will be a light mossy green on top and a "coffee with cream" color on the bottom. We have a few other rooms amidst the painting process, and will put up a few photos when they are done, the one we focused on today is best described as a key lime color probably inspired by our Key West trip a few years back.

Movies to think about

Yesterday's seventh anniversary of the terrorist attack on America was another evening where Sheila and I watched yet another documentary about the troubled world we live in. It reflects on some hard truths that we have to face about the Iraq war. The title is " No End in Sight", which fortunately there does seem to be an end in sight in Iraq currently.

The politicians who beat there chest about "the surge is working" need only answer one question for me. "What took so long for you to listen to the guys with the "Stars and Bars" instead of the hapless civilian leadership that miscalculated this war from its inception. The soldiers who had to beg for armour and protection only to be answered by Rumsfeld's arrogance. Not wanting to go off on a tangent , but 18 months of success is incredible considering the five years of prevailing ignorance by Bremer's leadership.

We have watched many documentaries in recent years. It's amazing how hindsight can expose the depth of an event. My next suggestion we saw in 2002, it is not of hindsight, but rather a movie that tells the tale of a trainee firefighter in 2001. It subsequently is a first-hand account of the bravery on that dark September day. 9/11 the documentary made by Jules and Gedeon Naudet. Save me the " I have a hard time watching that stuff", it's very different than the day of broadcast the networks were covering, it memorializes the 343 firefighters who were lost, along with giving us just a glimmer of what it may have been like to be there.

"Recount" was another good dramatized histroy lesson staring Kevin Spacey and Dennis Leary.