It's only Friday?

How quickly I lose track when all I'm doing is sitting around the house. Watching a collection of old television Westerns from the early 1950s, since I don't have the energy to do much but sit still. The Cisco Kid was played by Duncan Renaldo on radio and he moved into television in the same role, with Leo Carillo as his sidekick Pancho. The stories are formulaic and each one is complete in 30 minutes, with commercial breaks, but they are still good for a laugh. I first saw Cisco and Pancho on black and white television, probably as reruns when I was less than ten years old. I didn't remember them being so cheesy, but 1950s television was that way all over. Most amusing in retrospect is the way they used pretty much the same cast for every episode. A couple of the actors were always bad guys, in a different scheme and with different names each time. And of course, Cisco and Pancho always succeed in trapping them at their own game. Carillo's fake "Mexican malaprops" were one of the trademarks of the show. "Cisco, I thin we better went before we end up dancing on the end of a rope. Without music." Cisco's magnificent black and white overo horse Diablo was the main attraction to the show as I remember it, and he still does look good. Even though sets were all black and white in those days (late 1949 through 1956) the show was filmed in color. They're a bit faded now, but obviously show the natural color rather than "colorization" that has been applied as an afterthought.

Simon's blood tests came back and are encouraging. Kidney and liver activity are just slightly high, thyroid very slightly low. The vet doesn't think we need to worry about that, so he's a go ahead for the arthritis medication. It does look as if stopping the aspirin has increased his discomfort level somewhat, but the temporary painkiller should cut in by tomorrow and we can increase the dosage to two or three times what we started with yesterday if he seems to need it. He can start on the Rimadyl a week from today.

Didn't get the predicted thunderstorms this afternoon, but we had occasional heavy showers, some with slushy blobs of snow mixed in even though the ground air temperature was well above freezing.