Movie Tuesday

Today we saw Gangster Squad about a special, under the table, squad of LA police whose purpose was to rid 1949 Los Angeles of the plague of Chicago mobster, Mickey Cohen. Cohen was ruthless in his pursuit of owning L.A. and controlling crime in the west.

It was a lot better than expected, probably due to the quality of the actors...Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling. Lots of shooting and blood, but a good story, too, based on a novel of the same name.

Is it cold or am I just too old?

It was freezing, then it warmed up a little and we had rain (an inch) a couple days ago, then more rain, then hail, snow and more rain all in about 10 minutes. And now it's freezing again--no rain in sight. Was it this cold last year? Or does it just feel colder?

For Next Christmas

My Mom made this Christmas stocking for the newest member of the family, Monkey...I mean Morgan Brown, son of Danielle and Bryan. Mom has made a stocking for everyone in the family. They are all as elaborate and beautiful as this one.

Sunrise

We had a very pretty sunrise this morning.

Garage

The garage is coming along fairly quickly. All the doors and windows are in, the roof is on, and yesterday workers started to prep the building for stucco. There's a little more to be done today, then they'll put on the "primer," which I guess is called brown and scratch or something. Anyway, it's getting close. They're installing the bathtub today, too.

Movie Tuesday

Today we saw Zero Dark Thirty. I know people who walked out in the beginning during the torturing scenes and I fully understand. However, the movie got better and then a lot better and was pretty exciting at the end. So, although I didn't particularly want to see the movie, I'm not sorry I did now.

Meet our new kitty, Precious. That's right, we have another Precious, a black one. The vet's office called to see if we could give her a home. She's about a year old, is spade and has all her shots. I picked her up on Monday, but she still is hiding by Tuesday night. We're going to give her another couple of days, but if she's unhappy, I'm going to take her back.