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A couple of years ago I joined the Disney Movie Club and was able to get 9 Disney Blu-ray movies for about $90, so $10 each on average. The next time I enrolled I got a little smarter and got 9 movies for $80 (about $9 each on average) by pre-ordering new releases for my two commitment titles while the prices were marked down from $29.99 to $24.99 temporarily, saving $10 total. Now they have loosened up the rules a little more and will count titles priced as low as $19.95 as a commitment. However, they don’t have many titles for that price, mostly older titles, often older editions that don’t include a digital copy of the movie.

After my third enrollment, I started to run out of movies I wanted to own, but Disney is also making new movies and releasing new editions of old ones, so I just have to be patient. After my third enrollment I stayed a member for a year until Disney released two new titles I wanted as commitments to complete my obligation. During that time I was lucky someone used my Refer a Friend link and I got two additional movies for the cost of shipping only. So that time around I got 11 movies for $85. Plus all of these movies come with Disney Movie Reward points that you can save up and get an older Blu-ray title. I have gotten 9 more movies for free using those points, most of which come from the movies I am getting at the club (also other movies, movie tickets, and little bonuses Disney gives away).
Continue reading “Disney Movie Club, Part 4”

Last year I planted some Gloriosa Daisy seeds I got from the Disney Movie Club. I was able to get at least three plants from the containers where I planted the seeds, but only got one flower, which was cool looking, with autumn colors. After planting them in my front yard garden, the plants died back a little during winter, but never completely, even when it got really cold. So this Spring they made a quick comeback and were soon a couple of feet high with tons of flowers coming up. A storm blew the yellow ones down, but even lying on the ground, they seem to be doing okay. The yellow ones seem to be black eyed susans, but the one with autumn colors also has a lot of flowers. Continue reading “Daisies Part 2”

Last year I got a membership to the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Of course they have all kinds of plants there and right now they have a collection of living sculptures scattered throughout that were kind of neat to go looking for. But they also have a plot of pitcher plants that were just really cool. There are different kinds, but they all looked pretty neat.

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On my website I publish movie reviews I write. I started writing these on the Macintosh User Group bulletin board in the 1990’s and eventually started saving them, and then eventually published them to my website. While I had written reviews earlier than 1998, I only saved what I wrote from 1998 onward, so my website only goes back to that year. Because I write reviews whenever I watch a movie (not just new releases, but older movies too), I often will go ahead and write a review for pre-1998 movies as well, with no way of publishing them, but keeping them in my Access database where all of the reviews live. When I joined the Disney Movie Club, I wrote reviews of a lot of the older Disney animated features that I was buying, but my list of rankings couldn’t link to those reviews since they were not on the web.
Continue reading “The Movie Review Vault”

Just in the last couple of days my irises started blooming. I took this picture today.I love all the different things going on with irises: the spiky yellow caterpillars, the weird map markings, and that some petals go up and some go down.