Sunday, January 25

We slept late, and I skipped my exercises again this morning. As I was getting ready for the day, I noticed that it was sleeting. Predictions were that we could have wintry weather, including sleet and ice, but I thought it wouldn't come until late Monday evening orTuesday morning. So I was surprised to hear the sleet on the roof. It stopped later, but the day remained uncomfortably cold.

Mother came over mid-morning, and while I started a load of laundry, and made a menu for this week, she sorted beans for two recipes of 11-bean soup, which we'll cook tomorrow.

Then she read the Sunday paper, while I programmed the DVR for this week's favorite TV shows and movies. Hubbie took care of his usual morning chores...walking Shih Tzu, and feeding the cats and birds.

For lunch, we settled for leftover shrimp pasta and green beans. After lunch, Mother and I watched "Cyrano de Bergerac," a 2008, two-and-a-half-hour stage play starring Kevin Kline, that I recorded on DVR from the public television channel. We enjoyed this classic swashbuckling romantic tale about a poet with a long nose who not only writes, but speaks, in rhyme. He loves his cousin, Roxane, but agrees to pen poetic love letters to her for a rival, whom Roxane fancies.

While we were watching the movie, our neighbor came over and asked to speak with Hubbie, who was on the computer upstairs. He came down and went out onto the porch to talk with the man. The neighbor wanted to know if we'd seen anyone around his house last night about 7 p.m.

We'd been home from the other town only a few minutes at that time, and noticed no one at our neighbor's house. The man said while he was gone from home for a little while, someone broke down the back door, entered his house, and stole some rifles and a good amount of cash, which was his rent money. The police are investigating, but it's disturbing to think a thief is in the neighborhood. Chances are, though, the culprit is probably someone this man (who lives alone) knows...someone who has been in his house and knew about the guns, if not the cash.