AHS - Another Season Over......

Gentle Friends, last night we watched the Finale of American Horror Story - Hotel.  It was the last episode this Season and it wrapped up many of the lingering story lines and opened the way for season 6.... which I read than Ryan Murphy has already started talks with the actors about upcoming characters... now, Horror, is a genre I steer clear of on most occasions, but for some reason I am totally obsessed with this show.  I especially enjoyed this season, and Lady Gaga's performance along with her costuming couldn't have been more over the top and flawless!!  Angle Bassett also brought it every second she was on screen and her final warning to "Billie Dean" was over the top!!!  

I found this little teaser video of Lady Gaga for AHS on YouTube...it was a foreshadowing of her superlative acting and Golden Globe win the other night!!!!

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I can't wait for this to come out on BluRay and re-watch the season from start to finish without adverts!  Thanks for stopping by, have a super weekend!!!  It's going to be a wet and cold here by the Bay!

Take care,

edgar

A Little Baking and a New Horror Story

Gentle Friends, over the weekend I got to rattling the pots and pans and baked up a fresh strawberry coffee cake....

....  and I looked and looked and the cookbook this came from has gone missing from my house.  Where it is is beyond me, and I looked for that sucker and came up with nada! So, if it ever turns up I'll post the recipe.  it was pretty easy to do, a basic yellow cake base, 3 cups of sliced fresh strawberries, some walnut crumbly topping, and there you go.

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.... here's a little tid bit that I read yesterday that got me going about the upcoming new Season 4 of American Horror Story: Freak Show.....  "Set in Jupiter, Florida, in 1950, Freak Show finds Jessica Lange playing a German ex-pat who is managing one of the last freak shows in the U.S. Her group of “unusuals”? Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, and Frances Conroy all play performers whom Lange’s character has rescued; Denis O’Hare and Emma Roberts are also in talks to return. Freak Show’s 13 episodes will track this group as they do anything to keep their business around."  ........how super does that sound????  I can't wait!!

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That's about it for today sports fans.  Thanks for stopping by, do stop again!!

Take care,

edgar

Thrifty Thursday

Gentle Friends its once again Thrift Thursday and I did find a little something Saturday at one of the Goodwill's I visit.... and here's a snaperoo....

....  it is a lovely, heavy, SP well and tree platter.  Made by Reed and Barton c. 1940 or so, it's in really superior condition with no silver loss at all and only the few knife marks.  I would love to know the pattern, but have been unable to figure it out or find it on the Internet, it is similar to "Victorian" a very popular R&B pattern - but like I like to say - "Close but no cigar!"

You would think that I buy every silver, shiny thing I run up against, but in fact I pass on loads of stuff.  The story of this platter and how it came to my house......... it appeared at the Goodwill back at the beginning of December, and I have been circling it for over a month.  I felt the price, good, but not a bargain, and unless it is something I can't live without - it's got to be a bargain or deal.  Especially for silver plate, and if it's EPNS, the silver has got to be perfect, without flaw or loss.  Because with plated pieces any flaw or loss in the silver will lead to other problems and even for a few dollars, not worth the effort.

So like I said I have been circling this platter for over a month. Kind of like a silver vulture waiting to swoop in on the kill. I would visit it every Saturday and find it in the pile of SP platters of questionable quality and sort of shuffle it back to the bottom of the stack. This past Saturday they had marked all the silver things that had been around for a while 1/2 or more off and that made this piece a real bargain - so I snatched it up and bought it - leaving with my prize!!  It was of course in a really bad tarnished state, which is why I think so much lovely silver goes unbought, either people can't see past the tarnish or they don't want to polish off the black - either way, this lovely thing now lives at my house and will grace many a dinner to come.

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How about last night's......

 "Coven", slam bang, it was a winner Episode if ever there was one!!  With only a couple more episodes I will certainly miss in until next Season.

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That's about it for today sports fans, thanks again for stopping by do stop again!!

Take care,

edgar