Satuday, August 21

Slept late again this morning, until around 8 a.m., and did a treadmill session and resistance exercises after breakfast. While I was getting ready for the day, Mother came over, bringing a recipe for ginger snap cookies, and Hubbie visited a friend to get sacks of horse manure (how's that for contradictory images?).

By the time I was ready for the day, it was nearly lunch time. After lunch, I mixed a batch of cookie dough. Since the dough had to be chilled in the freezer for at least fifteen minutes, Mother insisted on baking the cookies while Hubbie and I went to pick up a few groceries and put gas in the van.

Back home, since we didn't have any projects planned, we watched a new stage version of the musical "South Pacific," performed at the Lincoln Center in New York. I had recorded the performance on DVR from the public television channel. It was a wonderful show that lasted until around 5:30 p.m.

Around 4 p.m., I put a couple of huge potatoes in the oven to bake, which we had with hamburgers/turkey burgers and corn-on-the-cob for supper after the movie.

Just as we were ready to eat, a storm blew up, bringing with it thunder and wind, but only enough rain to barely wet the ground. By 6 p.m., the storm had passed, and Mother was ready to go home, taking with her a half dozen of the four dozen cookies she baked. I kept a dozen for Hubbie and me and put the rest in the freezer.

Later, we watched the 2009, R-rated movie, "Inglorious Basterds," starring Brad Pitt. The two and a half hour film is a WWII drama about a group of Nazi-scalping American soldiers bent on taking down the Third Reich. Lots of cruelty and bloodshed. Certainly was a contrast to "South Pacific," also based on WWII. The only similarity between the two movies is that they are both fantasies.

On a lighter note, hummingbirds are finally visiting our feeders. We haven't seen any at the feeders all summer until now...maybe because there have been plenty of flowers for them to visit. Now that the flowers are fading, the birds are fueling up at the feeders for their long journey sometime in September.