Penny Satterwhite

This is the worst time of year for watching TV. There is nothing good on most of the major networks and I had to cut back on the extended cable channels to save some money. So I have been turning to the DVD library and watching some of my favorite movies. Tonight I’m going to watch Terminator 1 and do the whole whole series this week. In fact, I think it will be an Arnold week.

On the USA cable channel they are airing commercials for a new TV show called, Parenthood. It is a Ron Howard production, so I will expect some quality writing and directing, and the actors look like they were well chosen for their roles. I like the way the commercial shows the grandfather expressing himself and the parents seem to have no clue. It is probably a good snapshot of American culture and might even be funny.

The “official” groundhog in Pennsylvania supposedly saw his shadow this morning and ran back to the cozy cover of his den for another 6 weeks of winter.

But around here, the sky was completely overcast with snow clouds. There is no way any critter saw its shadow today. So I’m taking a stand and predicting an early spring for us!

(And yes – I know that is a beaver in my post and not a groundhog. Couldn’t find an actual groundhog in my clip art collection. So it’s going to have to be close enough. But you have to admit he’s a cuddly little critter.)

This New Year is going to be a good one for us. I have big hopes and plans for 2010.

This morning we were watching the news and they were discussing whether it was proper to say “twenty ten” or should we say “two thousand ten”? I think it was only appropriate to say two thousand while they were single digits, but now that we are back to double digits we should go back to saying twenty, just as we were saying nineteen rather than one thousand nine hundred.