Sunday, August 8

Up around 7:30, and accompanied Mother to our house after breakfast but before I did a treadmill session and resistance exercises.

Mother has been feeling a little useless, so I gathered the necessary ingredients and let her prepare veggies and turkey roll for the slow cooker.

After I'd exercised, I printed a photo of her with Niece at Niece's wedding, and of Great-Niece at the wedding for her to use in making birthday greeting cards.

She worked on the cards while I got ready for the day. The turkey roll was done by noon, but we had forgotten to put the leftover steamed veggies in the oven to heat, so it was around 1 p.m. before we sat down to lunch. The turkey, with the potatoes and squashes, plus carrots and onions that had cooked with the turkey, plus canned cranberry sauce, was very good. There is enough of everything left for supper tomorrow night.

After lunch, I printed a photo of Mother and me wearing clown noses to make a birthday greeting for a mutual friend, and a photo of Mother holding a basket of grape tomatoes for her to make a birthday greeting for one of her friends.

We were finished crafting around 3 p.m., and I accompanied Mother to her house.

Hubbie had spent most of the day mowing the yard, but by 4 p.m., he was ready to watch a movie. We saw "Washu Warrior," a 2008, PG-13 movie starring Matt Frewer. In 1862 China, an English lord rules the opium trade. An English boy is left orphaned when the drug lord kills his father. He is taken in by a Chinese man, who teaches him to be a Washu Warrior, which enables him to avenge his father's death and restore justice to the people he calls his own.

After that, we watched an episode of "Lark Rise to Candleford," from the public channel, and a show called, "Person's Unknown." We're not crazy about that one, so we ditched it in the middle and went on to something else. Won't be wasting our time on it again.