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This young woman is a skilled photographer, and she has promised to post more photographs. I believe she is deserving of being followed! What do you think?

@maddow.msnbc.com: It's difficult for me to imagine that @nicollewallace.bsky.social would need to add to her massive audience, but regardless of her motivation, she and her team executed this brief commercial - featuring two of her standout guests - with a note of brilliant disclosure!

The way I see it, you are not alone in your appreciation of these beautiful photographs! Rather, you are privileged to be singled out with your unique ability to appreciate them.

#HallmarkHaven: (9/9) Having never written a PostScript, here goes! There is one scene in this lovely movie that might be confusing. Eloise has expressed the love she had for her mother, and there is an embrace on top of a seaside cliff, between two similarly clad women, including her mom's spirit.

#HallmarkHaven: (8/9) I won't spoil the movie's precise ending (and in this case, I forgive Hallmark for not departing from its formula), but rest assured the literary festival is a big success thanks to Eloise, the farm is saved, and if you don't watch another Hallmark movie, this is the one! 100%!

#HallmarkHaven: (7/9) There's an important subplot between Julian and his mother, who is resisting the wind turbines Julian has arranged to increase the farm's income. It's actually quite touching when this hard-bitten mom eventually comes around to Julian's point of view, a key plot device.

#HallmarkHaven: (6/9) This emotional vulnerability is actually why Eloise, a literature PhD who loves poetry, recognizes that Julian's daughter suffers from dyslexia. She offers to help the daughter prepare for a poetry reading at the town's literary festival, and of course, a bond begins to form.

#HallmarkHaven: (5/9) Her mother actually grew up in the farmhouse Eloise is visiting. It's a kind of homecoming for our sweet professor, who suffers from anxiety attacks. She is there to revise a paper she's about to submit to her university's tenure committee, hence her emotional distress!

#HallmarkHaven: (4/9) However, I would be doing my readers a disservice (assuming anyone actually reads this review), if I did not discuss the part Julian's daughter and mother play in this film. Our leading lady, Eloise, is a professor, on a last minute trip to Cornwall, gifted by her dying mother.

#HallmarkHaven: (3/9) I will do both in this case, because Julian's adorable preteen daughter and his crusty mother, who melts your heart toward the end of the movie, play such critical roles in the movie's plot development. Unfortunately, the website IMDb doesn't list their names or publish photos!

#HallmarkHaven: (2/9) Maybe on one occasion have I mentioned one of the preteen children who are so popular in Hallmark scripts, and I've literally never mentioned any adult other than the leading man or lady, primarily because those two are the exclusive focus of virtually all Hallmark productions!

#HallmarkHaven: (1/9) I was introduced to the Hallmark Channel by this movie, though I didn't save it at the time. It features probably my all-time favorite Hallmark actress, the exquisitely luminous Eloise Mumford, along with the charmingly diffident actor, apparently from Cornwall, Julian Morris.

@maddow.msnbc.com: I don't know the exact percentage, but I feel fairly confident that way less than 5% of the population of this country lives on a farm and produces vegetables like soybeans. The beginning of this clip is a little funky, but it explains why China is buying NONE of our soybeans!

@maddow.msnbc.com: Here's the former Budget Director under President Biden to detail what's wrong with the approach to budgeting by Trump and the Republicans. The problem is that getting this kind of current lawless behavior in front of the Supremes is a fool's errand, or at least it has been!

@maddow.msnbc.com: I used to live in Pennsylvania, so I have a soft spot in my heart for @repdean.bsky.social, who isn't afraid to tell it like it is, even if it means endangering the relationships she has with House leadership. The effortless lies told by Trump and the Republicans are appalling!

@maddow.msnbc.com: I think it's completely ridiculous that some unelected, glorified bookkeeper is allowed to make decisions about the size and scope of the Federal government! That's Congress's job, and it's only because we have a demented president that our legislators aren't doing THEIR jobs!P

@lianakuzik.bsky.social: ...asked me if I would donate "SDI" to his small art museum, and I was happy to say yes!

@lianakuzik.bsky.social: Here's the artwork I mentioned to you previously. That's my old friend Curtis, who helped me transport the sculpture to an art show in Grand Junction called "Art On the Corner." After the show, the director of the Western Colorado Center for the Arts...

What do the colors in your flag symbolize? I see fields of golden grain, underneath a midnight blue sky. Slava Ukraine!

Also, the freezing process works faster if you refrigerate the bottles before putting them in the freezer. If you're exceptionally thirsty, you can use a bottle of such refrigerated water to refresh the one that you took out of the freezer and nuked. My system really works!

#HallmarkHaven: (5/5) As much as I have a rooting interest in these seemingly inevitable true love matches, and as engaging as Bethany Joy Lenz is, the script writer needed to spend a little more time justifying how in the world the prince's father would accept a commoner as the future Queen! 48%!

#HallmarkHaven: (4/5) ...it's completely implausible that the King abandons his own 30-year Jubilee to find Bethany and bring her back to the royal ball just as our prince is breaking up with the leading lady, who was supposed to be the love of his life! Instead, he proposes to Bethany, who accepts.

#HallmarkHaven: (3/5) I've seen enough of these royal-meets-commoner plots (a subgenre of the Hallmark brand) to know that it's a problem and always causes a crisis. As likable as our leading lady is, and as sincere as the King turns out to be, when he sees that his son loves our matchmaker...

#HallmarkHaven: (2/5) The film begins awkwardly, with our matchmaker being hired by the prince's father, the King. Bethany's job is to get to know her subject, the prince, and she proceeds to set him up with several eligible ladies of noble lineage, since it's essential that he not marry a commoner.

#HallmarkHaven: (1/5) The title role of this movie is played by one of my favorite actresses, Bethany Joy Lenz, who plays opposite the regally handsome Will Kemp. She has started a very successful business, which has a track record of introducing celebrity matches. He's prince of a European kingdom.

I forgot to mention that you probably don't want to completely fill these bottles! Leave two or three inches of air at the top so the ice can expand without blowing up the plastic. The bottles are pretty tough and reusable, but why tempt fate?

@maddow.msnbc.com: (2/2) I don't think the exact times matter, but these work for me. What results is a bottle half full of solid ice with maybe a cup or two of super-cold water! Wrapping it in a plastic grocery bag like this keeps it cold for 2 or 3 hours, and that second bottle will be ready then.

@maddow.msnbc.com: (1/2) Here's a hack for always having ice cold water. (I can't explain it, but the taste of super-cold water's simply more refreshing!) Take two quart-sized Gatorade bottles and put them in your freezer. After a few hours, take one out and nuke it for 66 seconds, and again for 55.

#HallmarkHaven: (5/5) It's an extremely well-known song and I just can't remember a movie NOT crediting the authors of a song like this! Lauren needed to have a deep relationship with her grandfather, but it just left me with a weird impression, though I STILL GIVE THIS FILM A SOLID GRADE OF 86%!

#HallmarkHaven: (4/5) Just before the "happily ever after" moment at the end of the movie, she sings what is supposed to be a song her grandfather wrote and sang, but in fact, it's a song written by Paul Overstreet and Dan Schlitz, with the lyric "you say it best when you say nothing at all."