Mother's Day

We've had a very good Mother's Day. Mother came over around 10:30 a.m., and we exchanged greeting cards. I also gave her a little book of cute cat photos with smart aleck remarks as though said by the cats.

For lunch, Hubbie took us to a popular restaurant on the river, where Mother and I had hot roast beef sandwiches, with mashed potatoes, and green beans, and delicious hot rolls. Hubbie had fried catfish with French fries and coleslaw, which was preceded by a garden salad (seemed strange that a meal would feature both a garden salad and coleslaw).

Lots of folks were celebrating the day with their mothers and grandmothers. Ladies dressed in their Sunday best proudly wore beautiful corsages; grandmothers doted on the grandchildren in their group; cards and gifts were exchanged; at one table, a baby was being passed around and cooed over.

While we were at the restaurant, there came a downpour, and it was still raining hard when we left. Back home, even though I'd used an umbrella, I was chilled from the rain, so I changed into a long-sleeved knit shirt, jeans, and denim jacket before we went to see our local high school in a performance of the musical, "Oklahoma." Mother and I were glad we wore warmer clothes, because the middle school auditorium was very air-conditioned cold.

The seating in the auditorium is uncomfortable, too...small, unpadded seats, meant for middle-school children, soon cramp aging bodies. We were grateful for the two ten-minute intermissions, so we could stand up and shake the cramps out.

The play was good, if not quite up to the standards of the high school performance of "The Music Man" that my niece and nephew were a part of in the town a couple of hours south of us. However, the set for "Oklahoma" was pretty amazing. It featured a wood frame farm house, approximately 12 feet by 12 feet, built on one side of the stage, and on the other side, just below the stage, stood a 14 or 15 foot wooden water tower. At one point in the play, there was also a large wooden smokehouse on the stage that stage hands managed to quietly roll on and off between acts.

The play lasted three hours, so it was 5 p.m. before we got back home. At least it wasn't raining. Mother stopped by the house for a while to work on the jigsaw puzzle, and I read the Sunday newspaper. Mother went home around 6 p.m. Around 7 p.m., Hubbie and I had cold cereal and toast for supper, with strawberries for dessert.

After that, we settled in to watch TV.