Cherry Nation
Those green orbs you see are CHERRIES! Cherries. Year 2 and I have cherries on my Rainier tree already! Wow. The Rainier is not self-fertile so I had to take a paintbrush out there and transfer pollen by hand, from the White Gold tree to the Rainier. I did the work of many bees and apparently, I did it well. Now the war with the squirrels and birds can begin.
The cattle book said that I could see a small yield in year 3. Well, here it is year 2 and thank you very much. I’ve also added a 4th tree out in back: One of the new “Gold” cherry trees on the Gisela-5 rootstock. The thing is so new and experimental, it is called simply “518 New York” on the band. The Gold will produce cherries that have absolutely NO red in them whatsoever. That way, the birds tend to leave them alone.
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Been watching my boxed set of “The Night Stalker” before bed lately. Great show with Darren McGavin and Simon Oakland. Those two had such great chemistry. McGavin is my favorite actor. Nobody like him. He could take ordinary lines and deliver them and make you believe that he was just speaking off the cuff. He could act. You bought it.
The shows are pretty bad though. The monster budget was not so big. And every hokey monster in the world, always seemed to show up right where Kolchak did his thing. Big TV coincidence. Chris Carter said that Kokchak inspired the dopey x-files. The show had no plot and no conclusion but the fans loved it because Mulder and Scully MIGHT kiss one day: just imagine. It was hard to watch. There was never a payoff to the viewer. Give me Carl Kochak, INS, anytime.
I remmber watching that show as a kid OH THE TERROR when he has to fill the zombies mouth full of salt and sew it shut in the back of that wrcked ambulance in a junk yard YIKES
that was terror to a kid at the time
Comment by Tim — May 10, 2008 @ 9:08 am
Tim, once again, you hit it right on the head. That moment defines Kolchak. That is the scariest moment where he pours the salt in the mouth and attempts to sew it up. It is a hearse rather than an ambulance, I believe, but I could have it wrong.
Coolest moment is in The Night Strangler, when Kolchak goes in the trap door under Dr. Malcom Richard’s clinic in Seattle and finds the lost section of the underground.
Another defining moment is in “Horror in the Heights”, when a monster kills you by becoming someone you trust. And Kolchak tells the old Indian guy, “…but I don’t trust anyone…” and then the moster appears in a back alley as Miss Emily and Kolchak shoots her with the crossbow and kills the henious monster. The acting that McGavin does as he is about to shoot her is amazing. Right on. Kind of laughing nervously but firmly and disbelievingly telling the faux-Miss Emily, “…I’m going to have to shoot you”.
Comment by mcgonnigle — May 11, 2008 @ 8:07 am