Monday, February 9

Started the day at water aerobics, where the pool was nice and warm. Since it was also sunny and mild this morning, 22 showed up for the session. By the time I got back home, it was overcast and windy, but still mild. Predictions were for possible thunderstorms later in the
evening.

Hubbie spent time in the yard this morning cleaning up around Mother's house and trimming some of her plants. After lunch, he ran errands. He returned with an electric rice cooker. I expressed a desire for one yesterday, when we had trouble getting a recipe of brown rice to cook properly on the electric stove.

I stayed home while Hubbie ran errands, but didn't accomplish anything. I just couldn't get motivated. There is no lack of things I could do around the house, but I don't want to get involved in a major project this week, since I have two big events to get ready for...the Go Red Luncheon and fashion show Thursday, and the family birthday party in another town on Saturday.


I got an e-mail from the Go Red Luncheon coordinator, who has set 4 p.m. Wednesday to do a run-through of the fashion show. So tomorrow I will need to pick up the outfits I'll be modeling from the store that is supplying them.


Otherwise, the afternoon was as uneventful as the morning. Mother came over around 3:30 p.m., and we tried a new recipe...a chicken and rice casserole. We had a problem getting the white rice we used to cook properly, though, in a recipe that called for it to be cooked with tomatoes and other vegetables and the chicken in a pan on top of the stove. We should have used the new rice cooker to pre-cook it and then add it to the recipe. The dish was tasty, though, once the rice finally did cook.

Later, Hubbie and I watched Presdent Obama's address to the nation.

After that, we watched the 1985 Encore movie, "Ladyhawke," starring Mattthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfieffer. This PG-13 fantasy is the tale of the adventures of a 13th Century pickpocket (Broderick), and is based on a 700-year-old classic legend of a woman who is a hawk by day and a woman by night, and a man who is a man by day and a wolf by night.

The wind picked up and it rained this afternoon, but predicted thunderstorms did not come to pass, thank goodness.