Middle of the week yard trash day

Last night was a stay indoors night. The weather was grey outside and the rain showers would come and go. Mom had the Turner Classic Movie Channel on which was showing an old Fred McMurray black and white movie. Fred actually played a killer disguised as a cop on a stakeout. His girl friend in the movie Kim Novak played a little beyond middle age lady whom Fred had chosen as a get out of town partner. Fred ends up getting shot twice in the back as he had another squirrel looking lady for a hostage. The other cop on the stakeout was the one who shot Fred.

As Fred laid face down on the ground, his girl friend Kim walks up and Fred says" I thought I told you to get away." Kim turns around and is escorted to the back of a police car. The hostage walks off with the other cop and you assume Fred goes to his eternal reward inside the ambulance on the way to the hospital. The words "The End" pops up and my next response is " I want my money back."

I was mildly surprised Fred could play a bad guy when I associate him as the dad in "My Three Sons." He seemed like such a likable guy. I also remember Uncle Charley from the series. I remember Ernie the youngest. He had so much to prove to fit in with the other guys. The other two sons Chip and I can't think of the oldest were kind of high school yuppie kids. The upper middle class who dated pretty girls in dresses. They even had a lady in part of the series who dated Fred who's stage name was Steve. I also remember the mop of a dog who had the run of the house.

I never expected to be caught up in an old movie. Instead, I have been caught in the "Where is Caylee" soap opera. The reason I call it a soap opera, because something new and dramatic is happening every day. The latest is the Psychics who tell about seeing Caylee's body somewhere along a lake with wild flowers. The Grandfather George refuses to assume Caylee as being dead. Instead, he wants the public to believe she is kidnapped.

At the beach, we had the sixteenth shark bite. The girl from New York went into the water waist deep and was bitten in the leg. The doctors removed a tooth from her leg which she will keep for a souvenir. What a reputation our beach is getting from the sharks. If I did not have a television set, I would not know what was going on in my neighborhood. What a wonderful invention of communication.