Hooray for president's birthdays!

I don't have to go ANYWHERE or do ANYTHING tomorrow on President's Day!  I love it!  We actually got some unexpected free time Friday afternoon because this fell....

.....and it impacted our planned temple visit which closed early that afternoon.  We were planning on having Elise here for a weekend visit but she had to turn back twice because of a blocked interstate - once Friday evening and again Saturday morning - thanks to ice and snow.  Had Elise been here, we would have gone to the Southerlands for Saturday dinner and fun.  So, having almost five inches of snowfall was a mixed blessing.  We really need the snow and it was very pretty but we are sad Elise couldn't be with us.  

Speaking of being with us - only one more day of dog-watching Stacy.  She has behaved just fine and Sally has tolerated her.  Her feeling the need to bark at EVERYONE - including us when one of us comes home from somewhere - has been annoying.  She barks at my in-person cello students so much that she has to be shut into a separate room.  I guess that is the German Shepherd in her? 

Having no Fred to walk with in the mornings this past week has meant that Steve got to walk with me all five days and that has been nice.  We also spent time together going to Culver's for Valentine's Day dinner.  We have watched two television shows and two movies (see below) together this past week.  And, he came along with me Thursday afternoon to run stuff to the Habitat ReStore, to redeem aluminum cans, and to do a quick shop at Schnucks that turned out to take a bit longer thanks to post-Valentine candy sales :)

All Creatures Great and Small and an episode of Bull were the television shows.  Steve has hooked me on Bull - a crime type drama showing on Paramount Plus. Buck is a documentary about a "horse whisperer".  And we have watched about 3/4 of the epic 1963 film Cleopatra.  It is kind of a tedious film with a story that didn't need four hours to tell.  Elizabeth Taylor is not a great actress, in my opinion, and the costume department really pushed the boundaries with the censors of that era with the risqué clothes she wore. I can remember when the movie came out - it was quite a big deal. So, when I heard the soundtrack on our local classical radio station while driving home a week or so back, I thought I might check it out from the library these sixty years later.

Before the snow fell, we had unseasonably warm weather for February and I was actually able to do a teeny bit of work in the yard which was enjoyable.  Temperatures are supposed to climb again next week.  Welcome to Missouri weather....

I close with some Gary Larson President's Day humor...