Friday, November 13

Another busy day. Started with water aerobics on this Friday the 13th. The water was nice and warm and felt wonderful.

Back home, once I was ready for the day, Hubbie and I ran errands...to the bank, and then to the Extension Office, where Hubbie dropped off a folder of Master Gardener publicity information (he passed the torch to someone else at Thursday's meeting), and where I talked to the agent for the Extension Homemakers to get information about a craft extravaganza in another town. Our scrapbook club will attend the event, which is scheduled for next Friday, November 20. I will drive the ladies (five of us will go) to the all-day program that will feature craft demonstrations conducted by members of clubs in several counties. For a small fee, attendees can buy kits and participate mini craft classes.

From the Extension Office, we went to the automobile dealership to pick up our free turkey. I thought it was going to be a smoked turkey, but it is a frozen, uncooked one. It's a nice sized bird, though not big enough for a large Thanksgiving Day gathering. But it'll do nicely for some other time of the year.

Then we went to a grocery store to buy cans of icing to use at the graham cracker cookie Christmas house workshop. It's not easy to find plain, classic icing. Most of it is whipped, which doesn't work on the houses, because it's not sticky enough for gluing things together. While we were at the store, we picked up bananas at 39 cents a pound.

We returned home after that to have lunch, change clothes, and go at 1 p.m. to the retirement party of the secretary that Hubbie and I worked with years ago. It was a nice gathering, and we enjoyed visiting with everyone...so much so that we stayed the full two hours of the party.

After we got back home, we changed into casual clothes again and went shopping at the WDCS, where we shopped for both ourselves and Mother. I picked up several more items we'll need at the Christmas house workshop, plus pie crusts and cherry pie filling. I plan to bake pies tomorrow to put in the freezer for Thanksgiving.

In between all the running around, I called the scrapbook club members to make arrangements for the craft extravaganza trip, and the art gallery director to make reservations for four of my great-grandchildren to attend the Christmas house workshop.

Supper tonight was leftover Long Soup, with the remainder of the bran muffins. Later, Hubbie and I went to the art gallery downtown to attend an artist demonstration. The artist focuses on multi-media acrylic/oil paintings of southwestern scenes. Neither Hubbie nor I are painters, but much of what she discussed and demonstrated (color values, the color wheel, shapes, element placements on canvas, etc.) are the same rules that apply to photography, gardening, home decorating and other things, so it was interesting.

At home again, we tuned the radio to our favorite college basketball game, which they won. The game was already half over by the time we started listening. After that, we watched one-hour programs on TV.