Lazy Sunday and a Movie

Yesterday turned a bit cool after an afternoon rain, but today is warm and humid. The air conditioner felt good for a session on the treadmill this morning. I usually skip exercising on Sunday, but since I didn't get a session in yesterday, I felt I needed to make up for it today.



Others, I'm sure, will be engaged in Memorial Day activities all weekend, but we studiously avoid the crowded parks and lakes favored by young families on patriotic holidays. We do hang the flag, and our thoughts and prayers go out to those currently serving our country, just as we honor those who have gone before, including members of both my and Hubbie's families. We are very proud to be Americans.


We made only one short outing today...to the farmer's market after lunch to pick up more strawberries and tomatoes. I enjoyed the wildflowers growing along the roadside to the market, where red clover has been replaced by purple vetch, black eyed Susans, and Queen Anne's lace.



We spent the rest of the afternoon leisurely playing on the computer, reading the Sunday newspaper, and watching TV.


We were scheduled to go to an outdoor movie sponsored by the local arts council and held on the campus of one of the colleges, but TV weathermen kept predicting thunderstorms for our area at the hour the movie was to be shown, so we opted to stay home. Right at 8:30 p.m., just as the movie was to begin, lightening split the sky and thunder boomed loud enough to startle me and Shih Tzu. I hope those in charge of the movie ("Grease") either cancelled it, or moved it indoors before the storm began.


"Grease," is not a movie we were lathered up to go see, anyway, but we would have gone to support the cause. Instead, we enjoyed a more satisfying five-hour movie I'd recorded from the public television channel...a Masterpiece Theatre production of "Cranford," written by Elizabeth Gaskell and starring Judi Dench. We didn't mean to watch all five hours of it in one sitting, but we got so interested in it that we just kept watching, right up to midnight!