Tuesday, Sept. 7

Got up late this morning, at nearly 8 a.m., and did a treadmill session and weights exercises after breakfast. Hubbie took the truck for a minor repair to the camper shell window while I was exercising. Since the shop couldn't get to the truck right away, someone brought him home. Later in the morning, once I was ready for the day, I accompanied him to pick the truck up after repairs.

Spent the rest of the morning on the computer and making phone calls. Mother came over around 11 a.m. It started raining around noon and continued to do so throughout the afternoon. The rain is much needed, so we were very glad to see it.

We were also glad to see the half-blind white kitten on the doorstep this morning. We hadn't seen her since yesterday afternoon around 4 p.m., when she was frightened by the lawnmower and went into hiding. We feared some harm might have come to her.

After lunch, I decided we needed to run a couple of errands. I thought the rain had slacked off, but not so. We were glad to have an umbrella with us.

Our first stop was at the art gallery, but we found that it was closed. So we dropped by the bank, and then went to the discount store that's going out of business. Hubbie wanted to pick up cans of cat food there. The final stop was at the health store to get buy-one-get-one-half-off boxes of fish oil gels. I used my 20% off discount card on these. The store is supposed to alert me when they have sales on their products, which is usually the first week or so of each month, but somehow they missed me this month. Hubbie happened to think of it last week and thought we should check on it, so I called this morning.

Back home, we relaxed for the rest of the afternoon, reading the local newspaper and a couple of magazines that recently came in the mail, and then had a supper of leftover barbecued country ribs and steamed veggies.

Mother went home afterward, and Hubbie and I watched TV, including the R-rated movie, "Bobby Z," starring Paul Walker and Laurence Fishburne. A biker gang is out to kill an ex-Marine convict (Walker). A DEA agent (Fishburne) makes a deal to get him out of jail if he agrees to impersonate a recently killed drug lord (who he happens to look like). Things get sticky, though, and the convict ends up running for his life.