Tuesday, January 20

We spent most of this living-history day glued to the TV, watching the Barack Obama inauguration ceremonies.

Before that began, though, I got on the treadmill, while Hubbie and Mother took Snoops to the vet's office to be spayed.

When Hubbie returned, he put the flag out in honor of Inauguration Day, but the wind was so high that later he found it had blown off the pole. The same happened in the high winds yesterday, when he put it out in recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr., day.

Mother came over and joined us for lunch and stayed to watch inauguration events. About 2 p.m., one of the members of the scrapbook club stopped by to visit and pay her share of a plant we ordered as a club for the funeral of another member's husband.

At 3 p.m., Hubbie and Mother went to the vet's office to pick up Snoops. After that, Mother stayed home to tend to the groggy cat.

I cooked a little more spaghetti to go with what was leftover from last night, and we had this for supper with whole kernel corn and cottage cheese. Hubbie took a microwave dish of the meal to Mother.

Today is notable not only because of the inauguration and Snoops surgery, but because it is also Sis's birthday. Sis formally celebrated her birthday on my birthday, January 10, while she was visiting here that weekend, but we still want her to know we're thinking about her on her special day today.

We watched a couple of good movies last night. One was "Miss Potter," a PG movie starring Renee Zelweger. The film is about Beatrix Potter, who wrote childrens' books, like Peter Rabbit, that are still popular today.

The other one was "Miracle," starring Kurt Russell, about the coach who took the USA hockey team to victory against the Soviet Union team in the 1980 Winter Olympics.