Book Review- A Touch of StarDust

   Julie Crawford heads to California with dreams of being a screenwriter in the early 1930's.  Julie lands a job ( but not as a screenwriter) for a demanding producer David O. Selznick , who is busy directing  "Gone with the Wind". She meets Carol Lombard and then goes to work as her assistant. Carol marries Clark Gable and Julie becomes involved in their lives.
  And Andy. Andy Weinstein works also for David o. Selznick in the fast paced movie environment

 Based on memoirs of Carol Lombard and  Sam Jaffe ( Movie agent & Producer) this novel shows how the movie business was during those early days of big movies.   The story reads easily and is interesting twists and turns  lead to a finally satisfying conclusion .  

Snowing Again!!

 Here on Shady Lane, It is snowing , again!  The birds and squirrels were out again this morning. The squirrel did not get much.

  Yesterday I made Minestrone Soup  which I had wanted to do for a while.  I followed a recipe but then of course , made a few changes.   I use our own tomatoes sauce which was free . We got the tomatoes at the end of the summer at a farm stand. The man said he could not sell them , But we found enough to make 5 jars of tomato sauce.

  The recipe was in in All You  magazine- I did not use kale or escarole ( that was the only item I did not have) I did use some cabbage that I cut up finely- It was the cheapest green I could find.
 So now we have soup for the week for lunches or light dinners, The recipe said it serves six . We got two containers  so I think it will be more like 8 servings.  And the cost was--  around $3.00 total.