Sunday, June 6

Up around 7:30, and did a treadmill session and weights exercises after breakfast. Mother came over mid-morning, and we put together booklets of scrapbook pages to be entered in the fair in July. My pages feature the birth of a great-grandson in February, and various pages of one-year-old great-grandsons, as well as the accomplishments of older great-grandsons. Seems like great-grandsons have been in the spotlight lately.



Mother's scrapbook pages feature heritage photos of my dad and older brothers, as well as of herself when she was young.



Lunch today was steak strips sauteed with onions and bell peppers, with baked potatoes and steamed mixed veggies. Mother went home afterward, and Hubbie and I toured the yard, where I took pictures of the colorful lilies.



Then we wasted the afternoon watching a couple of movies, followed by the local and national news. We're sickened by images of oil-covered pelicans along the Gulf Coast. The pelicans represent an untold numbers of animals and fish that will die before the oil spill is resolved. Disasters like this make us feel so helpless. Our hearts go out to the people of that region, whose livelihoods and way of life are being threatened.



For supper, Hubbie and I had pancakes and fresh cherries. Then we watched another movie.



This afternoon's movies were "State of Play," and "View of Terror." Tonight's movie was "Deep End."



"State of Play," is a 2009, PG-13 movie, starring Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck. Careers are at stake for a journalist (Crowe), and a congressman (Affleck), as the journalist investigates the death of the congressman's female aide.



"View of Terror," is a Lifetime Movie Network movie, starring Shannon Doherty. A woman moves to an apartment and is promptly terrorized by a man, who seems to know her every move. She suspects an occupant of an apartment in the building across from hers, who has a telescope, is the culprit.



"The Deep End," is a 2001, R-rated movie, starring Tilda Swinton. A mother risks everything, when she finds a man dead...impaled by a boat anchor...on the banks of the lake near her home. She suspects her teen was involved in the death, since he had formed a (gay) friendship with the man. The man's cohorts try to blackmail her for $50,000 in exchange for sex tapes that would compromise the boy.