Sunday, January 31

The last day of the month. Where did January go? It was a busy month, and February promises to be just as busy, but the months are absolutely rushing past!



Sun's out today, and the snow melting has begun. We got up about 7:30 this morning, and I skipped my exercises so that Hubbie and I could go out and shovel a path through the snow to Mother's house. The snow is light and fluffy, but it was still an exercise session shoveling that distance. Carrying Shih Tzu out to do her business served as a weights session.



Mother spent the morning and part of the afternoon at our house before going back home. She put a Cajun flavored turkey roast in the slow cooker for our lunch. We had this with potatoes Au gratin and a choice of Lima beans or butter beans, and cole slaw.



After lunch, Mother sorted batches of 11 beans to wash and soak. We want to make two batches of 11-bean soup with ham to donate to the arts council for their "Souper Bowl Saturday" event next weekend. We'll cook the soup tomorrow and put it in one-quart Styrofoam cups for the freezer.



After that, Mother read blogs and emails on my laptop computer before going home around 3 p.m. The path we shoveled this morning is completely clear of snow and ice now, so she will have no difficulty in walking over to our house on her own tomorrow.



Traffic seems to be flowing pretty well on the highway in front of our house, but I still don't know if conditions will be good enough to go to water aerobics tomorrow morning. The rule is, if the area schools are closed, then the pool will be closed, too. But I might not know that until tomorrow morning.



I didn't accomplish a lot today beyond the usual Sunday routine of programming the DVR and reading the Sunday newspaper. After Mother went home, Hubbie and I watched a disaster movie, recorded from the SyFy channel, called, "Meteor Storms " in which one of the characters sums it up with "the fate of the world hangs in the balance." We weren't in the mood for anything very serious this afternoon, and this movie fit the bill.



At 6 p.m., Hubbie and I listened as our favorite college basketball team played to a surprising win. It was neck and neck all the way, before our team came out on top. Yay!

After the game, we watched another doesn't-require-a-lot-of-thinking movie..."Get Smart." We were fans of the popular and comical TV series in the 1960s. This new version is comical too. Agent 86, of CONTROL agency, now works in a techno-savvy world. Teamed with brilliant partner, Agent 99, he is still as bungling as ever, as the two battle the evil KAOS agency. Oh, and he still has a shoe phone. This is a PG-13 movie, starring Steve Carrel and Anne Hathaway.