Wednesday, August 4

Up around 7 a.m., and did a treadmill session and weights exercises after breakfast. Once I was ready for the day, I accompanied Mother to our house.



We only ran a couple of errands this morning...to the bookstore to pick up the crafts that had been misplaced during the fair. One was a screen door Christmas card, and the other was a beaded Christmas ornament. The card, one of my entries, had a note from the judge that it had been considered for Best of Show.



After the bookstore, we went to the WDCS, where I picked up snapshots of our recent grape festival trip. Also picked up a few household items.



Back home, Mother had bagged grape tomatoes for the freezer, and cut up round steak for a beef stroganoff supper. We had that with sides of spinach and English peas (spinach for Hubbie and me, and peas for Mother, who doesn't like spinach).



I finished reading a stack of newspapers while loads of laundry were washing. Then I gathered clusters of purple and green grapes brought home from the festival, as well as both regular and grape tomatoes from our garden, for a thank-you basket for our neighbor who takes care of our cats and waters our gardens while we are gone. I also made a thank-you card on the computer, using a photo of Mother holding a basket of grape tomatoes. Around 2 p.m., Hubbie and I took the basket to the neighbor and visited for a while.



Relaxed after that, and then after supper, I accompanied Mother back to her house. Later, Hubbie and I went to the movie theater to see "Inception." There were only two other people in the theater with us.

Movie plot: technology allows people to enter and invade dreams. Naturally, this is soon seen as a way to steal corporate secrets. The main character (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) is a master "extractor," of secrets. So he has become a fugitive, which has cost him his family. He wants his family back, and agrees to one last job in exchange. However, his plan for his team of dream specialists could cost all of them their lives. It's rated PG-13. Long movie at two and half hours.



Incredibly hot today...temps above 100, with insufferable humidity. My heart goes out to those without air conditioning, or who have to work in this heat. I'm not sure what coaches are thinking, though, who feel the necessity for football practice in this brutal heat.