1) What an unexpectedly heavenly day! The predictions of the weathermen were for nought; instead, I took advantage of sunny, breezy, unusually temperate day by hiking through the arboretum.
1a) I did at least stick to the culinary part of my plan: to boil up a cauldron of soup this evening. That’s usually a cold-weather activity, but I’m still pleased with the results.
2) An unoriginal observation: My temper sometimes gets the better of me when political topics come up online. That doesn’t mean I’ve stopped hating myself for it, but there it is.
3) If there were two things my family enjoyed they were the comic strip For Better or For Worse, and the TV series Perry Mason. I grew up on the latter, which played as reruns at 12 noon every day during the summers. This Christmas I gave myself the first two seasons on DVD, and it has been an absolute delight going through them. Of course for me one of the great pleasures is recognizing character actors from earlier movies and shows. Shoot, Aunt Bea from Mayberry is almost a murder suspect herself in one episode! Karen Sharpe, Nancy Kulp (well before her cries of “Chief, chief!” on The Beverly Hillbillies), the actor who played the navigator with the drunk wife in The High and the Mighty, the actress who played the gorgeous blonde wife of the two-timing artist staying at Katharine Hepburn’s pensione in Summertime. Just fantastic.