Monday, March 29

We were up around 7:30, and I did a treadmill session and weights exercises after breakfast. Once I was ready for the day, Hubbie and I ran errands...to the propane company office, a grocery store, the pharmacy, the post office, the health store, the WDCS, and the gas station.

While we were gone, Mother came over and started a jigsaw puzzle. We usually complete several during Easter week, but I don't know how many we'll do this year.

We didn't do anything important after lunch. Mother continued the jigsaw puzzle, Hubbie watched college basketball on TV, and I played on my laptop computer.

Supper tonight was stuffed bell peppers, baked potatoes, and cream style corn. Afterward, Mother worked on her puzzle a little more and then went home. Hubbie and I settled in front of TV.

We began by watching two Masterpiece Theater features: "Lark Rise to Candleford," about an early 1900s family that lives in a hamlet and comes into money. The money causes the dilemma of whether they should move to a larger town or not. In the end, debts against the inheritance leaves them with very little, so they are happy to be able to stay in their familiar surroundings.

The second feature, "Sharpe's Challenge," is set in the 1800s. An officer's regiment in an outpost of India is slaughtered by a renegade British officer in league with a local rajah. Sharpe sets about hunting him down. Lots of bloody skirmishes, heads lopped off, and other garish things, like pounding a large nail into the head of an offender.

After that, we watched an episode of "Dancing with the Stars."

It has been a lovely day...still a little bit cool, but sunny with no wind. Wildflowers, like brightly colored orange poppies, are blooming along the roadsides. The grass is getting green, and the trees are in bud, just ready to burst into leaf.