Wednesday, October 21

Skipped water aerobics again. Today was my last day to take medication for my infection, so maybe I'll be ready to return to the pool soon. I did a session on the treadmill, plus weights exercises.

Once I was ready for the day, Mother came over and we continued sprucing the house for company tomorrow. We also set up tables and put card-making materials at each seating space, as well as a plentiful supply of pencils, glue, tape, scissors, etc., in the center of each table. I think we're ready now, except for last minute straightening up tomorrow morning.

After lunch, Mother and I watched a VHS movie..."Dracula," recorded a couple of years ago from the public television channel. I can see that this movie would be much higher quality on DVD, as would the movie we watched yesterday afternoon..."Sleepy Hollow," starring Johnny Depp. I'll probably try to order these movies online.

While we watched the movie, Hubbie worked outdoors, gathering yard ornaments to store for the winter, and then at 2 p.m., he went to fetch Mama Cat home from the veterinary clinic. He put her in the wire cage for a while, until she came out of her grogginess, and then turned her loose this evening. Hubbie worried that the cat would shy away from him in fear, but she just offered her head to be petted, and rubbed against his leg. Fortunately, cats aren't capable of putting two and two together.

After the movie, the TV went into flickering mode again, and became worse as the day wore on. Finally, Hubbie called the store where we bought the TV, and they thought it might be a cable company problem. So Hubbie went to the cable company to see if someone could come and take a look at it. These days, we can't call the local cable office, since calls are directed to some unknown state. We didn't expect anyone to be able to come today, but our guy who has taken care of our problems over the years, came right away.

He tried several things and finally concluded that it was the HD cable sold to us by the store where we got the TV. It appears to be faulty, so we'll need to exchange it for another one. For the time being, the cable guy switched the unit to TV, rather than HD, and it works fine. The picture is sharp, but will probably be even better with the new cable.

Supper tonight was turkey cutlets, served with baked sweet potatoes, and blackeyed peas. Later, of course, we watched TV...several one-hour shows I'd recorded on DVR last week.