Saturday, June 19

Up at 7 a.m. and did a treadmill session and resistance exercises after breakfast. Checked on Mother. She's still feeling bad, so she spent the day lying on her couch. Her appetite is low, so she didn't eat a lot today.

Once I was ready for the day, I hand washed some delicate clothes. I'm not crazy about clothes that need special attention, but a pair of white linen slacks, a white shell, and a long sleeve blouse wouldn't survive the washing machine.

After lunch, Hubbie and I ran errands...first to the store that has a sale every weekend. Hubbie had a $10 coupon in honor of his birthday, and he was able to find a knit shirt priced at just over $11 dollars.

I was interested in finding a pair of white crop pants to wear Monday night at the Summer Celebration event. I meant to wear the linen slacks, but they are lined, and in this extreme heat, I'd be uncomfortable in them (I certainly was at the outdoor wedding last Saturday). The event is indoors, but once a couple of hundred people pack into that restaurant, it'll quickly get stuffy and hot.

I did find a pair of crop pants, and Hubbie found another on-sale shirt. We also found an on-sale bath mat set for the downstairs bathroom. So with these items, we were able to take advantage of another $10 discount.

From that store, we went to a home improvement store, where we looked for a tower fan. No luck, so we went on to the WDCS. While I shopped for groceries, Hubbie found a tower fan, and a regular oscillating fan.

The tower fan is for our bedroom, because the window air conditioner died. The oscillating fan is for the den, where Shih Tzu sleeps. She's really enjoying lying right in front of it, but it is also helping to circulate the air in the den for us.

After we got back home, I made a pot of chicken noodle soup, and a bowl of Jell-o, in hopes of tempting Mother to eat. She did eat most of a helping of the soup, and later a small bowl of Jell-o with whipped topping.

By this evening, Mother was sitting up and watching TV, and she said she felt well enough to work puzzles. But she's still pretty wobbly when she walks. And she continues to run some fever...about 99 earlier today.

I asked if she would like to spend the night at our house, but she declined, so I checked on her before bedtime, and will check on her again early tomorrow morning.

TV fare tonight: the movie, "Ali," a 2001 film about the life of Muhammad Ali. Stars Will Smith and Jamie Foxx.

Kittens: when it came time to treat the three kittens that have eye problems, Hubbie brought in two of them and announced that the third one had somehow escaped the wire cage, and he couldn't find it. So off on a hunt we went. We let the mama cat out of the cage, thinking she would search for her baby. But ditz that she is, she just sprawled on the front porch. Finally, Hubbie found the kitten under something in the garage. Once we put the cat and kittens back in the cage, Hubbie blocked the area of the cage where the kittens were able to squeeze out.