Saturday, Oct. 30

Up at 7:30 this morning, and did a treadmill session and weights exercises after breakfast. Didn't do a lot after that for the rest of the morning, except search for a photo that I never did find. Phooey.



After lunch, Hubbie and I ran errands...to a grocery store to get cottage cheese, to the bank, to the WDCS to shop for Mother and us, and to a farm store for dog food.



While we were gone, Mother started a pot of chili cooking for our Halloween supper tonight. When we got back from shopping, the three of us put together an Apple Betty dessert...Hubbie peeled the apples, which I sliced, and Mother mixed the topping. I chopped some walnuts to add to the dish.



We didn't have room for the dessert after supper, so we saved it for a snack after we returned from a symphony orchestra performance at the college.


We left home about 6:30 to go to the concert. We didn't leave the porch light on, because our town opted to celebrate Halloween tonight, and we didn't want trick-or-treaters visiting. The downtown business association and several churches held events for kids, and we are far enough out of town that we haven't had trick-or-treaters the last few years, but we didn't want to chance it.

The symphony was very good, of course. It began with "Sunrise Fanfare," (the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey) by Richard Strauss, and ended with a compilation of New York tribute tunes. In between, the program included works of Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, and Wagner.

The concert ended around 9 p.m., and upon returning home, we enjoyed helpings of the Apple Betty dessert with ice cream, and cups of coffee. Mother went home afterward, and Hubbie and I watched our favorite college football team play to a win. I'd recorded the game on DVR.

While we watched the game, I enjoyed looking at snapshots of one of my beautiful great-granddaughters on my social network page. Great-Granddaughter was voted second grade queen, and she was all dressed up in pageant wear to receive a tiara at the school's fall festival tonight. She and her little escort also received a trophy. I'm anxious to get a professional photographer's print for making a scrapbook page.