Saturday, August 28

Trouble sleeping last night. Fell asleep soon after retiring, but woke up at 1:30 a.m., and the last time I looked at the clock it was 5:30 a.m. Then I was up about 8 a.m. Too bleary-eyed to exercise, so after breakfast, Hubbie and I went downtown to the pocket park, where, according to the our local newspaper, there were supposed to be produce and crafts vendors. Apparently, the vendors didn't get the word, because there was absolutely no one there.

Back home, Mother came over and finished her jigsaw puzzle, and I played on my office computer.

After lunch, Mother and I walked around the yard inspecting the remaining veggie plants. Bell peppers have taken off again, and several are maturing on the vines. The fruit in the raised veggie bed that we thought might be a gourd has revealed itself to be a cantaloupe. In the zinnia bed, a couple of more butternut squash are growing nicely. And in the compost heap, there is one large acorn squash, with several others coming on. Hope they have time to mature before cold weather.

Around 1 p.m., Hubbie and I decided to go back downtown to see if we could get into the movie theater for the movie, "Eclipse." Since we arrived just before 1:30, we were among the first to get seated.

Unfortunately, within minutes a woman carrying a baby herded several young children into the seats right in front of us. Hubbie and I decided to move across the aisle. The baby was sleeping when the group arrived, but awakened during the movie, naturally, and became agitated. The child, a year-old toddler, was noisy and active throughout the entire movie, but the woman in charge of him was disinclined to take him out of the theater, preferring instead to subject the rest of us to his noise. Very inconsiderate.

The theater was not full, but there was certainly a good crowd. Not as many, though, as last night, when cars were parked three blocks away from the theater, and there was a long line at the ticket booth. There will probably be a big crowd tonight, when teenagers will flock to the movie.

This old, historic theater gets much larger audiences than the newer one, because admittance is only $2, and the concessions are reasonable. An individual can go to a movie here and get refreshments for less than a ticket price at the newer theater.

We were back home about 4 p.m. Mother was in the process of heating leftover hash, which we had with steamed broccoli, and Chinese beets.

Mother went home afterward, and Hubbie and I lazed in front of TV. I thought about going to the store that has a sale every weekend, because I have a $10 off a $25 purchase coupon, but I didn't feeling like bestirring myself.

Funny: An example of technology taking over our lives: Daughter needed to make an appointment with a new dentist, and she wanted to find out if the dentist would accept her health insurance.

"Do you take Blue Tooth?" she asked.

The receptionist, Granddaughter, who was sitting nearby, and Daughter herself broke into laughter as she corrected, "No wait. I mean do you take Blue Cross."