These are the greeting cards that Mother and I made for Caring Hands Hospice. Mine are the two in the top photo. The lettering doesn't show to advantage in the photos...the black and white one says "treats for you," and the other one says, simply "autumn." It's obvious what Mother's cute cards say. I took these and other handmade fall and Halloween cards that we already had on hand to the the Caring Hands office this afternoon.

I had hoped to get up earlier than we did this morning to get on the road to the other town to take the pressure washer back and to sign the contract for the sliding door, but it was 8 a.m. before we woke up. Hubbie has always assured me that he wakes at 7 a.m., even if we don't set the alarm. He didn't this morning, of course.

Anyway, we got to the store in the other town around 10 a.m. After Hubbie returned the pressure washer, he decided to shop for some other things with his gift card (the store had refunded him for the washer in the form of a single gift card...they do not dole out cash for returns, but only give refunds for their store's gift cards in the form of another store
gift card). He bought a pair of pruning loppers, bags of potting soil and humus for re-potting house plants, and a finch birdfeeder.

Once he paid for his purchases, we left the store, and headed for the $1 shop. As we left the parking lot, I asked Hubbie if he'd signed the contract for the sliding door. No. He'd completely forgotten about that, even though it was the primary reason we'd traveled to the store in the first place.

So we turned around and went back to the store to take care of that matter. And then we went to the $1 shop, where I bought a few packages of scrapbook paper and some stickers to use as a gift. Then we headed home.

Got back home at noon. After lunch, Hubbie and I ran errands...to a grocery store that has bananas on sale for 39 cents a pound, to the Caring Hands office to drop off the greeting cards, the 11-bean soup and cornbread muffins, and to pick up the grilling basket I'd ordered from Pampered Chef. From there, we went to the WDCS for a few grocery items.

At home about 2:30, we relaxed and read our books and daily newspaper for an hour, before going a mile down the road to the college that is celebrating their 20th anniversary...they had invited the public to a hamburger/hot dog picnic. The sandwiches were served with chips and brownies or cookies for dessert. I stuck with a hamburger and a brownie, though Mother and Hubbie took both hamburgers and hot dogs (they brought the hot dogs home, though). The meal was served on plastic flying disks. Entertainment was our local award-winning guitarist. We always enjoy this very talented artist.

We were back home by 5 p.m., when we relaxed and watched the movie, "The Other Boleyn Girl," rated PG-13, and starring Natalie Portman. It's about the two sisters, Anne and Mary, who compete for King Henry VIII.