Thursday, June 4

We awoke to a very cool morning, and it stayed cool all day. I began my day with a treadmill session and resistance exercises after breakfast. After getting ready for the day, I pressed clothes I'll need for the weekend, and then set to work putting things into the camper for our trip tomorrow.

After lunch, Hubbie and I ran errands...to the Catholic Church to request a Mass for Niece's husband, to the post office to mail photos to family, to the WDCS for last-minute groceries for the trip, and to the gas station to fill the truck with diesel. We also looked for the roadside vendor, where I hoped to buy tomatoes to take on the trip, but the vendor wasn't there today, drat it.

When we got back, we continued doing tasks for the trip. Later in the afternoon, I got a tray of sliced tomatoes, lettuce, and sliced Vidalia onions ready to take to a Master Gardener picnic at 6 p.m. this evening. Members are assigned foods to bring to the picnic, and our assignment was the salad stuff for hamburgers.

The picnic was held at the home of one of the Master Gardeners. She has a lovely, shaded yard, but the thunderstorm yesterday made her leery of setting up tables and chairs out there, so she set up in her double garage instead.

We enjoyed touring her pretty gardens, abloom with several varieties of lillies and other flowering plants. The picnic food was good, too...hamburgers, hot dogs, deviled eggs, veggie salads, veggies with dip, etc. Desserts included chocolate cake with mint flavored seven-minute icing, brownies topped with whole walnuts, white cake and fluffy icing, and a couple of fruit-based creamy dishes.

Mother went with us to the picnic. She hasn't gotten her strength back, yet, so we didn't dally long after we'd eaten, and left the gathering about 7:15.

After we got back home, we put last-minute stuff into the camper and then settled in to relax and watch TV for a while.

When I checked the eagle nest, the baby was alone. He is getting darker in color, and growing more feathers, but he still totters a bit unsteadily on his legs. The mother returned after a time, bringing a fish with her, which she promptly tore into bits to feed the baby.