Wednesday, March 18

Since this was water aerobics day, we got up at 6:30 a.m. I like water aerobics, but we are not fond of getting up at this early hour, when it is still dark outside.

By the time I left for the pool, though, the sun was just above the horizon, glaring into my eyes as I tried to exit the driveway onto the highway. It was a beautiful morning. Ribbons of fog weaved through the trees on the hill leading up to the college campus, and a large powder-puff of fog lay on the meadow at the foot of the hill.

The pool was nice and warm today, too, making the workout a real pleasure. Usually, though, when the pool is warm one day, we can expect it to be quite a bit cooler the next time, so I sort of dread Friday.

After I got home and ready for the day, Mother came over, and we cleared away the mess we'd made getting scrapbook pages ready to work on tomorrow at the club meeting. I also called the club members to remind them of the meeting.

For lunch, we all had something different. Mother finished the tuna salad, I had leftover chicken soup and a chicken sandwich dressed with coleslaw, and Hubbie had leftover mashed potatoes and chicken gravy, with slices of chicken, and coleslaw.

After lunch, Mother and I went for a walk at the college lake. When we arrived, a couple in late middle-age, were holding hands as they strolled (still in love after many years of marriage, or in a second-time-around relationship, I wondered?).

A couple of college girls, probably taking a break between classes, sat on a large flat rock that juts into the lake, busily text-messaging on their cell phones.

Groundskeepers motored by in carts pulling flat-bed trailers, stopping from time-to-time to pick up limbs that had broken off trees in the February ice storm. Grounds keeping staff are very busy right now sprucing the campus for the hundreds who will visit on Scottish Festival weekend.

Ducks, floating in shallow water near the bank, napped in groups of two or three, heads tucked into their wings. A couple of squirrels made a mad dash off the path and up into trees as we approached. A turtle, head stretched toward the sun, warmed himself on a tree stump in the lake. Crows...lots of them...raucously caw-caw-cawed as they flew overhead or perched in the tree tops.

After we got back home, Mother napped in the rocking chair, as Hubbie, who'd been working in the yard while we were gone, came in to rest and read our town's daily newspaper, and I played on my laptop computer.

Supper was leftover lasagna and coleslaw. After supper, I toured the yard with Mother to look at the tulips that are just beginning to bloom, and the veggie garden, where lettuce is coming up.

After that, Hubbie and I spent our quiet hour researching information for a possible trip to Texas in a few weeks...hopefully while the bluebonnets are in bloom. Then we watched TV, as usual..a Hallmark Movie Channel offering, and a couple of one-hour shows.