Tuesday...an Ordinary Day

Since I didn't have to go to Cardiac Rehab this morning, we slept late and then I did 35 minutes of walking on the treadmill, followed by five minutes of stretching and using an elastic band for resistance exercises.



Well, the mama cat and all six of her juvenile kittens are back. They've been here for several days now. We haven't a clue where they went when they left, or why they decided to come back. Hubbie has been able to pet all of them now, whereas before they were too skittish to get near.

They're definitely ready to go to new homes, but we don't know anyone who wants one at the moment. We'll have to start polling our acquaintances to see who might be in the market for a pet. I think Hubbie has fallen in love with one of the two Siamese mix ones, a very friendly buff colored kitten with beautiful blue eyes and dark points on her face, ears, paws and tail. We really hate getting attached to the kittens, since as they grow older, they could be destined (as so many of our cats have) to meet their end on the highway in front of our house.



I had trouble deciding what to have for lunch today, but finally settled on a baked potato, with a fresh orange for dessert. Hubbie opted for a PB&J sandwich and potato chips. After lunch, we ran errands again. The main reason for getting out today was that we wanted sweet potatoes to bake as an accompaniment to pork chops and California mix veggies for supper. As long as we had to be out anyway, we stopped by the post office and the bank, as well as at a dollar store, where I picked up several lint rollers and some boxes of low-salt/low-fat crackers for the trip.



Otherwise, it was an ordinary day. Mother and I strolled the garden later in the afternoon and noticed that the lettuce she planted recently in the raised garden has broken the ground. The butternut squash, growing out of the compost heap, is doing nicely. Mums, zinnias, and clematis are blooming, even as the leaves are falling off the sweet gum trees. Yellow Cloudless Sulphur butterflies are still flitting among the flowers, and as recently as a couple of days ago, I saw a hummingbird feeding at a zinnia blossom.