Wednesday, August 25

Woke up this morning at 4 a.m. and couldn't go back to sleep for about an hour, then had to get up at 6:30 to get ready to go to water aerobics.

What a beautiful morning...spring like temp, with low humidity. The pool was a bit cool, though, since there had been water added to it. I wondered if the person in charge of this forgot to check on it, because the water was very high...only about a foot from the top. The deep end felt really deep today.

I had a refreshing swim, though, and thoroughly enjoyed the aerobics afterward. Some of the ladies are sore from our session Monday, because they didn't exercise during the five weeks we were off. Since I regularly exercised on the treadmill, I've felt no ill effects from aerobics.

In the continuing story of the lady who found her mother lying dead in her driveway, and then herself fell and broke a wrist, I learned today that when she fell, she also came down hard on a knee replacement. The damage is so severe that her doctors are actually considering amputation. Gad! I truly hope that doesn't happen.

In another story, the lady I stand next to during aerobics didn't attend on Monday, because a pest control person was treating for termites at her house. Seems water got into her basement (which is concrete and cinder blocks) and dampened a stack of books, paneling on the wall, and a carpet. Termites then invaded. The pest control guy worked ten hours to treat her house, which he said was fortunately not affected anywhere else but the basement.

So then, the lady set about finding out where the water came from. The water heater? No, a repairman said. The bathroom pipes? No, a plumber said, but she had the pipes replaced anyway, since they had been installed in 1969. At last, an air conditioner repairman discovered a PVC pipe was stopped up, causing leakage into the basement. Expensive enterprise. Seems like a lot of us have had expensive repairs this summer.

Got back home around 9:30. Once I was ready for the day, Mother came over and chose a jigsaw puzzle to work on. She needs some down time to just play.

I fixed lunch later, and then Hubbie and I went to the WDCS, where I purchased seven plastic totes for organizing photos. Back home, I went to work on packets of photos that were stored in shoe boxes, identifying the contents and dating them, and then putting them in three of the totes. I had already filled three totes a few weeks ago. Now I have a nice neat stack of six photo totes.

Used the other four totes to sort and store trip photos and memorabilia, which previously had been stored in a jumble in a large cardboard box. Sorting these photos was my after-supper-before-movie task. Hubbie helped with the job, since it was a twenty-year accumulation. Everything is organized now so that we can actually enjoy reviewing our trips. It'll be nice to "travel" again to these warm vacation spots on cold winter days.

Supper tonight was beef hash, with eggs and toast. Later, we watched the movie, "The Double Life of Eleanor Kendall," a 2008, PG-14, made-for-TV feature, starring Lana Parilla. A woman's identity is stolen, and she manages to find the culprit...a young woman with a child, who is running from her abusive husband. The two become friends, and the victim ends up helping the thief.