Up at 8 a.m., again, and did a treadmill session and resistance exercises after breakfast. Didn't do a lot after that beyond playing on the computer and calling the members of the scrapbook club to remind them of our meeting Thursday.
Mother came over mid-morning and gathered some things to finish scrapbook pages and make greeting cards on Thursday.
After lunch, Hubbie and I ran errands...to the bank, to a roadside vendor to pick up another flat of strawberries, to the hydroponic farm for tomatoes, to a farm store for birdseed, to the WDCS for groceries, to the other discount store, where I didn't find what I wanted, to a home improvement store for impatiens for Mother, and finally to a grocery store for fat-free ice cream and whipped topping, plus several grocery items that were either free or were discounted with store coupons.
It was around 3 p.m. before we got back home. I spent the next hour or so gathering more stuff to work on at the scrapbook club meeting, and doing several card stock pages of rubber stamp greetings.
Supper tonight was loaded baked potatoes, topped with leftover pork barbecue, sauce, and cole slaw, plus shredded Monterey Jack cheese. We served sliced tomatoes with this, and Hubbie and I also had leftover corn on the cob. That one pound of free pork barbecue yielded about ten servings for us. Not bad.
Later, at 7 p.m., we went to a Japanese puppet program at a local college, sponsored by the area arts council. It was what is called a Wood and Strings Theatre of folktales, using life-size puppetry. Admission was free, though donations were taken as a fundraiser for a memorial scholarship in honor of a valued community theater member, who died of injuries from an automobile accident several years ago.
It was an interesting program, where the puppeteers were covered from head to toe in black outfits, and operated the large puppets against a black backdrop. Each puppet was operated by two puppeteers...one that moved the head and right arm, and one that moved the left arm and feet. The puppets included two male figures and a female figure, all dressed in very ornate and authentic-looking clothing. There was also a large, colorful sea dragon, a Punch and Judy scene, and shadow puppetry.
After the program, I went down to the stage to inspect the puppets more closely. I was told that they weigh about 8 lbs., the heads and hands of which are constructed of wood chips and some sort of molding material. The dragon, which the puppeteers operated in an undulating motion, as if it were swimming in the ocean, was constructed in part from a dryer hose. The kids who attended the show loved the dragon best and were clustered around it so they could touch it.
The story portrayed by the puppets is about a humble fisherman, who falls in love with a girl above his station. The girl loves him, too, but the father disapproves and turns the fisherman into a sea dragon. The dragon goes on a journey of self-discovery, and when he returns, the father turns him back into a fisherman. The fisherman is now brave and strong and asserts his right to marry the girl. All ends happily.
The program lasted about an hour, and we were back home a little after 8 p.m. , when we enjoyed angel food cake with strawberries and ice cream, while we watched "Dancing with the Stars." Mother went home after that, and Hubbie and I watched a one-hour program before the 10 p.m. news.
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