Monday, July 13

I got up at 6:30 this morning with the intention of going to water aerobics. But a thunderstorm cropped up, and I don't do swimming pool in a thunderstorm. I don't know how much rain we got, but it was stormy for a few hours.

So after breakfast, I got dressed and did a few household tasks, before sitting down to read my novel. Hubbie and I spent most of the morning reading. For lunch, we had the remainder of the leftover lasagna, with sliced tomatoes and cottage cheese, followed by bowls of fresh fruit.

We continued reading after lunch, until around 3 p.m. Mother came over about that time, and a little later, Hubbie and I went to the WDCS to shop for a few groceries, particularly a rotisserie chicken for supper. Mother and I realized that while we'd planned meals for the rest of the week, while Sis is here, we failed to plan for tonight. So we took the easy way out with a rotisserie chicken, served with the remainder of the brown rice, combined with the steamed veggies from yesterday's lunch, and sliced tomatoes. For dessert, we had slices of Korean melon...this is a small oblong melon with yellow and white stripes. It's white flesh is mildly sweet, somewhat like a honeydew melon. The Master Gardener from whom we bought tomatoes a few days ago gave us the melon to try.

After supper, Hubbie and I spent some time reading our novels before watching TV, including a Lifetime Movie Network film called, "Determination of Death," starring Michele Greene, Veronica Hamel, and Mark Singer. The plot revolves around an abusive husband who cooks up a scheme with his wife to fake his death in order to collect on an insurance policy to satisfy gambling debts. But when the husband's body cannot be found, nobody is sure what actually happened.

The second movie we watched was "How to Rob a Bank," starring Nick Stahl, David Carradine, Leo Fitzpatrick, Erica Christenson, and Terry Crews. The film is not rated, but there is some language. This is a heist film with a twist: a guy wants to withdraw $20 from his account without having to pay a fee. Somehow, he and a female bank employee end up locked in the vault, with a bank robber on opposite side of the vault door, and the police outside the bank, trying to negotiate.

I checked the eagle nest from time-to-time today, where the eaglet practiced flying up and down from the post. Today, too, he picked twigs up in his beak and flapped his wings until he lifted off the ground. I suppose this is practice either for nest building later, or for carrying prey.

Later this evening, he flew up on the post, stayed there for a while, flew back down to the nest, and with a little hop, became airborne again and surprised himself by flying to a nearby limb. He perched precariously there for a minute or two, barely keeping his balance, and looking around, as if to say, "Oh, boy, what do I do now?" Then, he turned around on the limb and flew back to the safety of the nest.