The weatherman was right: it’s cold. When I went to bed last night, it was 16°. Right now it’s 27°, the high for the day. Earlier this morning we had snow flurries, but the sun appeared and chased the flurries away. The sun, though, is really just an ornament, something pretty but useless.

I still think of Sunday as a day of rest. After breakfast, I came home, got comfy, grabbed another cup of coffee and finished reading the papers. An early afternoon nap is on my to do list. I’m already yawning.

I am not fond of westerns. High Noon and She Wears a Yellow Ribbon are the only two I’ll always watch. There are a few others I might watch like Shane or Butch Cassidy but only if nothing better is on TV. Mostly I shy away from westerns. I blame my childhood for this. For years all I watched were western TV shows. On Saturday morning, when I was young, it was The Cisco Kid, Roy and Dale, Sky King, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy, Annie Oakley and my personal favorite, The Lone Ranger, to name just a few. At night, it seemed as if every station aired a western or two. If I started a list here, it would extend for most of the page. I was westerned out by the time I reached high school.

Some of my favorite movies are old ones in B&W. I will always watch Gunga Din, Arsenic and Old Lace, Psycho (though I still hate the shower scene), To Kill a Mockingbird and my personal favorite, Casablanca. There are more, but these are the ones which popped into my head. Oops, Dr. Strangelove just popped in.

I will watch any of the old science fiction movies. Some are quite good though they are far outweighed by the bad ones, the ones  I also love to watch. The good ones include The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Thing, Them and all the classics made in the 30’s.

I own several of these movies, but I still always watch them when they appear on TV. Most times they’re on Turner Classic Movies, one of my favorite channels. If I notice one of them is listed, I make sure I have plenty of popcorn. Every now and then I add Good & Plenty, my favorite matinee candy when I was a kid.