The sun came out today, but only briefly. Most of the day has been dreary cloudy. Our yard is already saturated and puddled, but more rain is predicted for this week. The grass needs to be mowed, but the ground is just too wet for the riding mower.
We got up around 7:30 this morning, and after breakfast, I exercised on the treadmill. Later, Hubbie and I ran errands...to the WDCS to get a mop bucket for Mother, to the health store for vitamins and 8-grain cereal for me, to the greeting card shop to get a little book about cats to give to Mother for Mother's Day, and to a roadside market to get strawberries.
The strawberries at this market are from a town northwest of us. So far we've bought strawberries that have come from five different towns around the state. I can't remember them coming from so many different places before. In years past, the vendors brought them up from a couple of towns south of us. But now, they're getting them from growers who farm within the county, I suppose because it's less expensive to haul them shorter distances, and therefore keeps the cost to the consumer a little lower. Even so, strawberries this year cost a lot more than ever before. I don't like paying the high price, but I'm so crazy about them that I do it anyway.
Otherwise today, a friend who lives in a town east of us called this afternoon to say she is in town visiting another mutual friend, and Mother and I are invited to visit at the mutual friend's home tomorrow afternoon. We'll be glad to see both of them.
Mother came over after lunch, and since we didn't have anything planned for the afternoon, we watched "King Lear," by William Shakespeare, that I'd recorded several weeks ago on DVR, and which was about to be automatically deleted to make room for other movies. I video taped the three-hour PBS offering as we were watching it. It's a 2007 production of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Hubbie, not a fan of Shakespeare, opted to groom Shih Tzu for a bath. For the grooming procedure, he put Shih Tzu on a table in the sunroom. But at one point, when he turned away, for a moment, Shih Tzu shook herself and skidded off the table onto the floor. Since then, she has been limping slightly on her right front leg. I hope she hasn't sprained it.
For supper tonight, we had turkey burger patty melts on rye bread, with seasoned and baked potato wedges, and kidney bean/cucumber salad. Then Hubbie and I spent our quiet hour in separate pursuits.
Later, we watched TV, as usual, including a two-hour episode of "Medium," and this week's second episode of "Dancing with the Stars."
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