We finally got a break from win­ter and had a nice day, sunny and mid 60’s. As tra­di­tion here at Domus Bog­a­rdi in Dun­bar­ton Oaks, Donna and I raked up the leaves from the back yard. We do the front yard sev­eral times in Novem­ber and Decem­ber to keep up appear­ances in the neigh­bor­hood, but because no one sees the back­yard we hold off until almost all the leaves fall off the trees before rak­ing them up.

What time was not spent doing yard work was spent in front of the TV main­lin­ing the TV show called Jus­ti­fied. This is another FX gem of a show, like Ter­ri­ers, well writ­ten, with inter­est­ing char­ac­ters, adult, intel­li­gent and just the right kind of pac­ing. Some­one told me I should watch it, but didn’t think I would enjoy it from read­ing the descrip­tion, so we never tried it. Big mis­take. We found our­selves with a cof­fee table devoid of red envelopes this Wednes­day, so I cued up the first episode. We watched three that night, two on Thurs­day and the last 8 of sea­son one today. Sea­son 2 starts in February.

The McDonald’s Quar­ter Pounder to Justified’s Fil­let Mignon is Two and a Half Men, which I didn’t think I would like either, but it has become a house­hold sta­ple with us between 7 & 8 PM week­nights. Donna naps through it while I try not to laugh so loud that I wake her, and some­times that’s hard to do. I just love that the theme song, which con­sists of just repeat­ing the words “Men men men men, manly men men men!” over and over, took three peo­ple to write it (Grant Geiss­man, Lee Aron­sohn, and Chuck Lorre.)