Wednesday, July 1

This has been another in a short stretch of glorious weather days...high 80s temp with low humidity. We could use a little rain, but thunder clouds yesterday produced not a drop, though counties south of us not only got rain, but hail in some places, which damaged crops in the millions of dollars.



We were up by 6:30 this morning, so I could get ready for water aerobics. The pool was a bit cooler today, but still nice. There was a large group in attendance, maybe because we won't meet Friday. The leader and a few other ladies were decked out in patriotic colors. Our leader wore a hat adorned with lots of ribbons, flags, etc., plus a necklace of red, white, and blue silk flowers. Her swimsuit was blue, too. Others wore similarly adorned hats or caps. Most of us, though, forgot that we'd been encouraged Monday to wear red, white, and blue in tribute to Independence Day.



One of the ladies at aerobics brought two huge zucchini squashes with her for anyone who wanted them. Since no one else seemed interested in it, I took the larger one (someone else got the smaller one), which we baked for supper tonight.



After I got home and ready for the day, and then answered e-mails, it was 11 a.m. So I fixed chef's salads for Hubbie's and my lunch. Afterward, we ran a couple of errands...to the Revenue Office to renew a license, and to a grocery store that had fruit on sale. I was interested in the cherries, which were advertised at $2 a lb., but I found a plastic bag of them with a yellow "manager's special" sticker for $1 and snapped it up. We also got a small carton of blueberries to use Saturday with strawberries over angel food cake as our red, white, and blue dessert for Independence Day. We picked up apples, too, since they were less expensive than at the WDCS.



On the way home from aerobics, I noticed the roadside vendor near our house us had tomatoes and cantaloupes today. This fellow only stays at the site a couple of hours on the days he shows up at all. So as soon as I got home, I sent Hubbie to buy a couple of small buckets of tomatoes and a couple of cantaloupes. In the past, the cantaloupes were large, ripe, and tasty, but we tried one today, and it just wasn't up to par. I hope the tomatoes are the same quality as before.



We didn't accomplish much else the rest of the afternoon. For supper, the zucchini squash, split and baked with tomato sauce, Italian spices, and shredded Parmesan cheese, was good, served with leftover potatoes with chicken gravy, and crowder peas.

At the eagle nest: the baby was sleeping when I first looked, but later, the mother flew in with a large, still flopping fish. She began immediately feeding it to the baby, even as the fish continued flopping about. Later in the evening, I noticed there were only two viewers at the site...me and somebody else. The baby is as big as his mother now, so space for the two to walk around is limited. Tonight, the baby even stepped on his mother's tail in his trek across the nest.