Up early, so Hubbie could get ready to go to a Master Gardener bulb sale. The sale was from 8 a.m. to noon. He left home about 7:15 to help the MGs set up tables, etc.
I did a treadmill session and weights exercises after breakfast. Once I was ready for the day, Mother and I went downtown for the second day of the crafts/antiques event. We started by visiting crafts booths inside an old movie theater that has been renovated and converted to a church. There were several interesting crafts, but nothing that caught our eye enough to purchase. I did buy a bag of peanut brittle for Hubbie, though.
Then we visited the pocket park, where a few more booths were set up since yesterday. I was interested in visiting with the young woman who is the coordinator for the literacy council of our count. For a long time, I've been interesting in maybe volunteering with the organization. The coordinator is to send me an e-mail when there is another meeting for volunteers.
After that, we browsed a flea market mall before leaving downtown to go visit the Master Gardener bulb sale. The MGs did very well with the event, taking in over $1,500. Hubbie bought some bulbs, too, including tulips.
Mother and I returned home afterward, and Hubbie arrived around 12:15. Mother went home, and after lunch, Hubbie and I watched our favorite college football team play to a much-needed win, after two weather delays. The game was still in a weather delay when we left at 3:45 to go to my 20-year college class reunion.
A young woman met us at the steps of the building where the reunion was to be held and walked with us into the classroom. Unfortunately, Hubbie and I were the only ones who showed up. The adjoining classroom was full of folks attending their 10-year reunion. What are the odds that out of 90 in my graduating class, only I would show up? Must be some kind of record.
Moments after we arrived, our young hostess handed me an evaluation form. Hard to evaluate a non-event. But I did my best. While I did this, the college photographer came in and snapped a picture of me. Then, since no one had shown up by 4:30, we agreed to part ways.
Hubbie and I went to the gallery, which is in the same building, to view an art exhibit before returning home. It is entitled "Dark Matter," and it is certainly aptly named....strange and disturbing subject matter (like a bloody, headless white mouse, and a man being pulled apart by two animals) are shown against black backgrounds.
Back home, I heated leftover chicken noodle soup for our supper, and we resumed watching the football game, which I'd recorded on DVR. We continued watching TV into the evening.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Friday, Oct. 22
Up late, and then did a treadmill session and resistance exercises after breakfast. Didn't do much before 11 a.m., when we all went to a local bank that was having a customer appreciation event. Chili was being served, along with slices of white cake. They also gave away long-sleeve t-shirts, fridge magnets, ice scrapers, flying discs, little plastic footballs, and hand sanitizer in pen-shaped spritzer containers.
From there, we went downtown, where an antiques/crafts event was going on. There were vendors along both sides of the street and in the pocket park, and inside businesses. We browsed for a while, and then picked up a bag of three grilled hot dogs, and bags of potato chips, which another bank was offering.
I don't eat hot dogs, so we dropped by a fast food store to buy me a grilled chicken sandwich. We took the food home to put in the fridge until suppertime.
Around 2 p.m., Hubbie went to the Extension Services office to help the Master Gardeners bag a variety of bulbs for sale tomorrow morning.
I took my camera and went back downtown to shoot some images. I spent a couple of hours walking up one side of the street and down the other, taking pictures, visiting vendors that I know, and browsing antique/flea market stores. Then I went to the college where I swim and shot some images around the lake.
Around 4:30 p.m., I came back home. Mother had heated potatoes and squash to have with the hot dogs and grilled chicken for supper. Afterward, Mother went home, and Hubbie and I did what we always do...watched TV.
From there, we went downtown, where an antiques/crafts event was going on. There were vendors along both sides of the street and in the pocket park, and inside businesses. We browsed for a while, and then picked up a bag of three grilled hot dogs, and bags of potato chips, which another bank was offering.
I don't eat hot dogs, so we dropped by a fast food store to buy me a grilled chicken sandwich. We took the food home to put in the fridge until suppertime.
Around 2 p.m., Hubbie went to the Extension Services office to help the Master Gardeners bag a variety of bulbs for sale tomorrow morning.
I took my camera and went back downtown to shoot some images. I spent a couple of hours walking up one side of the street and down the other, taking pictures, visiting vendors that I know, and browsing antique/flea market stores. Then I went to the college where I swim and shot some images around the lake.
Around 4:30 p.m., I came back home. Mother had heated potatoes and squash to have with the hot dogs and grilled chicken for supper. Afterward, Mother went home, and Hubbie and I did what we always do...watched TV.
Thursday, Oct. 21
Up late, and then did a treadmill session and weights exercises after breakfast. Didn't accomplish a lot after that before lunch. Hubbie loaded our scrapbooking materials into the van for our afternoon meeting.
The lady who rides with us arrived about 12:45, and by the time we got to the Extension Services office, another of our members had already arrived and made sure the conference room door was unlocked.
We spent from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. scrapbooking. The fifth member of our club arrived about 30 minutes late. We were all soon absorbed in our own projects...Mother continued working on pages featuring Niece's wedding last summer, and I did a couple of more pages from my 50th high school reunion celebrations. Maybe next month, we can both finish these projects and move on to something else in 2011 (we don't meet in December).
The time flew by, and we were back home just after 3 p.m. We relaxed for a couple of hours...Mother working cryptogram puzzles, while I played on my computer. Hubbie made a trip to the vet's office to pick up one of the juvenile female kittens. Both the females came into heat, and the one that lives outdoors made it obvious that she needed to be spayed. The other one lives indoors, so her surgery isn't scheduled until mid-November.
The cat was still pretty groggy when we brought her in. She tried to walk around, but kept falling over on her side, so Hubbie put her in a cage in the sunroom to sleep it off.
Later, for supper, we had leftover beef hash with fried eggs and toast. Mother went home for a while after that, but came back around 7 p.m. to go with us to a program at the college where I go to swim.
Upon arriving, we were pleasantly surprised to see that a number of trees, as well as the lamp posts, on each side of the road between the science building and the gym were resplendent in white lights. The light poles were generously wound with them, and long strings of them were suspended from the tree tops to dangling below the branches of the trees, creating a shower of lights.
A white canopy walkway leading into the gym was also ablaze in lights. All this splendor is to create a fantasy ballroom in the gymnasium to entertain the donor after whom the college is named. He and his family, as well a chosen group of monied invitees will be at the college for homecoming activities.
As we were getting out of our van, we were greeted by the speaker for the evening...a Jesuit brother, who is a Vatican astronomer. He smiled and said, "I see you're not late for class."
We were late enough, however, because even though we'd arrived twenty minutes early, the large classroom was already full of students. Those of us from the community had to squeeze in wherever we could. And students kept pouring in after we were seated. It was soon standing room only. Nearly 200 people packed the room.
The speaker's main topic was the physical characteristics of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. He traced the study of Jupiter and it's moons from astronomers like Ptolemy, Copernicus, Aristotle, Galileo, and Kepler, who, with very primitive equipment, did a phenomenal job, he said, of getting the information "almost right," but in the end coming up with the wrong conclusions.
Various theories were put forth, from the idea that the earth stands still, and the sun and planets revolve around us, to the stars being flat discs that revolve and tumble (which supposedly explained why those bodies were brighter at times and dimmer at others), to the idea that the reason Europa is so bright is that it is piled with white sand. Finally, through pictures sent back to earth from Voyager spacecrafts, Europa's reflectivity was correctly identified as being produced by an icy crust.
This was a very entertaining speaker. Even though Hubbie and some others we talked to said his talk went right over their heads, I thought he did a good job of getting his point across in between presenting some very technical data.
We were back home from the event by around 9 p.m., when we enjoyed cups of hot chocolate, watched TV for an hour, and then hit the sack.
The lady who rides with us arrived about 12:45, and by the time we got to the Extension Services office, another of our members had already arrived and made sure the conference room door was unlocked.
We spent from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. scrapbooking. The fifth member of our club arrived about 30 minutes late. We were all soon absorbed in our own projects...Mother continued working on pages featuring Niece's wedding last summer, and I did a couple of more pages from my 50th high school reunion celebrations. Maybe next month, we can both finish these projects and move on to something else in 2011 (we don't meet in December).
The time flew by, and we were back home just after 3 p.m. We relaxed for a couple of hours...Mother working cryptogram puzzles, while I played on my computer. Hubbie made a trip to the vet's office to pick up one of the juvenile female kittens. Both the females came into heat, and the one that lives outdoors made it obvious that she needed to be spayed. The other one lives indoors, so her surgery isn't scheduled until mid-November.
The cat was still pretty groggy when we brought her in. She tried to walk around, but kept falling over on her side, so Hubbie put her in a cage in the sunroom to sleep it off.
Later, for supper, we had leftover beef hash with fried eggs and toast. Mother went home for a while after that, but came back around 7 p.m. to go with us to a program at the college where I go to swim.
Upon arriving, we were pleasantly surprised to see that a number of trees, as well as the lamp posts, on each side of the road between the science building and the gym were resplendent in white lights. The light poles were generously wound with them, and long strings of them were suspended from the tree tops to dangling below the branches of the trees, creating a shower of lights.
A white canopy walkway leading into the gym was also ablaze in lights. All this splendor is to create a fantasy ballroom in the gymnasium to entertain the donor after whom the college is named. He and his family, as well a chosen group of monied invitees will be at the college for homecoming activities.
As we were getting out of our van, we were greeted by the speaker for the evening...a Jesuit brother, who is a Vatican astronomer. He smiled and said, "I see you're not late for class."
We were late enough, however, because even though we'd arrived twenty minutes early, the large classroom was already full of students. Those of us from the community had to squeeze in wherever we could. And students kept pouring in after we were seated. It was soon standing room only. Nearly 200 people packed the room.
The speaker's main topic was the physical characteristics of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. He traced the study of Jupiter and it's moons from astronomers like Ptolemy, Copernicus, Aristotle, Galileo, and Kepler, who, with very primitive equipment, did a phenomenal job, he said, of getting the information "almost right," but in the end coming up with the wrong conclusions.
Various theories were put forth, from the idea that the earth stands still, and the sun and planets revolve around us, to the stars being flat discs that revolve and tumble (which supposedly explained why those bodies were brighter at times and dimmer at others), to the idea that the reason Europa is so bright is that it is piled with white sand. Finally, through pictures sent back to earth from Voyager spacecrafts, Europa's reflectivity was correctly identified as being produced by an icy crust.
This was a very entertaining speaker. Even though Hubbie and some others we talked to said his talk went right over their heads, I thought he did a good job of getting his point across in between presenting some very technical data.
We were back home from the event by around 9 p.m., when we enjoyed cups of hot chocolate, watched TV for an hour, and then hit the sack.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Wednesday, Oct. 20
Up at 6:30 to go to water aerobics on this chilly morning. The pool was not only chilly, it was downright cold...a degree or two cooler than Monday. Fourteen of us braved it, but the leader shortened the session, and even skipped the cool down (we were already plenty cool). So I got back home about fifteen minutes earlier than usual.
The trip home was lovely, as I traveled down the winding mountain road, shaded by trees that glowed rust and gold in the sunshine. I must soon go on a photo safari around town to capture images of this colorful season.
We learned today that water aerobics is cancelled for Friday, because the college is preparing for this weekend's homecoming celebrations. I can't say I'm sorry, since the pool will probably be icy cold by then. Seems the college is having problems keeping the forty-year-old boiler repaired.
Back home, while I was getting ready for the day, Mother came over and helped Hubbie put a pot of chicken on to stew for a chicken noodle soup lunch. After getting chilled in the pool, the soup was very warming.
After lunch, Mother and I gathered the rest of the stuff we'll need at our scrapbook meeting tomorrow. There was nothing else we wanted to do for the afternoon, so we watched the musical, "Cats," on DVD. Like "Phantom of the Opera," it seems to me to be an appropriate October movie.
The movie ended at suppertime. Tonight, we had beef hash (using the potatoes I mistakenly mashed last Sunday), Lima beans, and fresh salad tomatoes. Mother went home afterward, and Hubbie and I did the usual...watched TV.
The trip home was lovely, as I traveled down the winding mountain road, shaded by trees that glowed rust and gold in the sunshine. I must soon go on a photo safari around town to capture images of this colorful season.
We learned today that water aerobics is cancelled for Friday, because the college is preparing for this weekend's homecoming celebrations. I can't say I'm sorry, since the pool will probably be icy cold by then. Seems the college is having problems keeping the forty-year-old boiler repaired.
Back home, while I was getting ready for the day, Mother came over and helped Hubbie put a pot of chicken on to stew for a chicken noodle soup lunch. After getting chilled in the pool, the soup was very warming.
After lunch, Mother and I gathered the rest of the stuff we'll need at our scrapbook meeting tomorrow. There was nothing else we wanted to do for the afternoon, so we watched the musical, "Cats," on DVD. Like "Phantom of the Opera," it seems to me to be an appropriate October movie.
The movie ended at suppertime. Tonight, we had beef hash (using the potatoes I mistakenly mashed last Sunday), Lima beans, and fresh salad tomatoes. Mother went home afterward, and Hubbie and I did the usual...watched TV.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Tuesday, Oct. 19
Up at 6:30, but skipped my exercises in order to get ready to go to the capital city for a dental appointment this afternoon.
We left home a little after 8 a.m., and arrived a couple of hours later. It was overcast as we traveled out of town, and we fervently hoped for rain to break the month-long drought. An hour down the road, it began raining, and continued to do so for the next hour.
It slacked off to a drizzle by the time we arrived at a large discount store in the city, where I bought a dozen packages of scrapbook page protectors at $1.50 a 20-protector package. These protectors are getting harder to come by, so I wanted a generous supply.
After that, we went to the wholesale club store to pick up various food items, including fresh fruits and vegetables.
From there, we went downtown to the institute of state history and cultural studies, which is a part of the library system. This building, the library itself, and another building that houses discarded books, videos, music, and audio books, among other things, on sale at drastically reduced prices, are all located on the same block, with a common parking lot in the center.
We were interested in seeing an exhibit of "three for a dime" photos, generated by a couple from a community about 45 minutes from us. The couple devised a photo trailer in the 1930s to house the lens for taking pictures, which were developed and printed on the spot. The photos were like those taken in the photo booths of the era. They sold the small prints three for a dime, or an extra dime for a hand tinted photo. The couple traveled around our state taking thousands of photos of ordinary folks, against simple backgrounds, many of which are currently on display at the gallery.
An interesting story is told of a time when the couple set up in a town, displaying a bulletin board of discarded photos to show customers what they could expect for their money. A young man came in and asked for one of the display photos, telling the couple that it was an image of himself and a girl that was not his wife. He feared his wife would see it. Of course, the couple gave him all the copies of the photo.
The couple who took the photo-trailer around the state did it on weekends only, since they were farmers who couldn't break away from their chores during the week. They pulled the trailer with an unreliable car, over rough roads. There was no air conditioning in the summer, and no heat in the winter...and, of course, no bathroom facilities at any time. It amazes me that folks had the fortitude to do such a thing.
It's even more amazing that the couple had no clue about cameras before the wife saw a photo booth in a big city and noted the manufacturer information, wrote a letter to the manufacturer, and then bought a camera lens and developing and printing supplies. Her husband built the trailer and the camera to house the lens himself.
Mother commented that she has photo booth images of our family, and she promised to dig them out for me to see. Fascinating stuff.
The studies institute also houses 100 unique translucent acrylic photo panels suspended on railings both indoors and outdoors. The photo panels depict towns of bygone eras, historic buildings, lakes and streams, significant events, like presidential visits, among other things. The panels are on display everywhere in the building.
Following our tour, we went to the library building that houses discarded books, etc., where we had lunch in the facility's "Bookends Cafe." We chose Greek quiche, which is made with chicken, tomatoes, black olives, and feta cheese, among other ingredients. The quiches came with side salads, and each salad came with a different dressing...mine was vinaigrette, Mother's was ranch, and Hubbie's was honey-mustard.
Before I sat down to lunch, I browsed the audio books and found one on tape by author Janet Evanovich that I thought we'd like to read on our next trip. We listened to an audiobook on CDs by this author on our trip today and thoroughly enjoyed it. The problem we have these days, though, is that our truck has only a tape player, and our van has only a CD player, so I have to look for audio books in both formats.
Later, we traveled across town to the dentist's office. I was in dentist's chair for about 30 minutes, while the hygienist cleaned my teeth, and then the dentist examined them. Following the exam, I sat up and watched him proceed down the hall. He looked very thin, so I asked the hygienist if he'd lost weight. I was told he had...about 60 pounds two years ago, on a hospital-sponsored weight-loss program. In the two years I've been visiting this dentist, today is the first time I noticed the weight loss. I guess that's because his hands in my mouth were the only things I've seen of him before today.
We were on the road back home before 3 p.m. It had stopped raining by this time, and the trip was uneventful. When we reached our town, we stopped by a fast food place to get cups of chili for supper, because I didn't have the foresight to plan a meal for tonight. I should have made a pot of soup yesterday.
Mother went home after supper, and, after reading the evening newspaper, Hubbie and I did the usual...watched TV, including the elimination round of "Dancing with the Stars."
It was a good day, except that when we got back to town, we found that it had rained most everywhere in the state but here. We continue in our drought.
We left home a little after 8 a.m., and arrived a couple of hours later. It was overcast as we traveled out of town, and we fervently hoped for rain to break the month-long drought. An hour down the road, it began raining, and continued to do so for the next hour.
It slacked off to a drizzle by the time we arrived at a large discount store in the city, where I bought a dozen packages of scrapbook page protectors at $1.50 a 20-protector package. These protectors are getting harder to come by, so I wanted a generous supply.
After that, we went to the wholesale club store to pick up various food items, including fresh fruits and vegetables.
From there, we went downtown to the institute of state history and cultural studies, which is a part of the library system. This building, the library itself, and another building that houses discarded books, videos, music, and audio books, among other things, on sale at drastically reduced prices, are all located on the same block, with a common parking lot in the center.
We were interested in seeing an exhibit of "three for a dime" photos, generated by a couple from a community about 45 minutes from us. The couple devised a photo trailer in the 1930s to house the lens for taking pictures, which were developed and printed on the spot. The photos were like those taken in the photo booths of the era. They sold the small prints three for a dime, or an extra dime for a hand tinted photo. The couple traveled around our state taking thousands of photos of ordinary folks, against simple backgrounds, many of which are currently on display at the gallery.
An interesting story is told of a time when the couple set up in a town, displaying a bulletin board of discarded photos to show customers what they could expect for their money. A young man came in and asked for one of the display photos, telling the couple that it was an image of himself and a girl that was not his wife. He feared his wife would see it. Of course, the couple gave him all the copies of the photo.
The couple who took the photo-trailer around the state did it on weekends only, since they were farmers who couldn't break away from their chores during the week. They pulled the trailer with an unreliable car, over rough roads. There was no air conditioning in the summer, and no heat in the winter...and, of course, no bathroom facilities at any time. It amazes me that folks had the fortitude to do such a thing.
It's even more amazing that the couple had no clue about cameras before the wife saw a photo booth in a big city and noted the manufacturer information, wrote a letter to the manufacturer, and then bought a camera lens and developing and printing supplies. Her husband built the trailer and the camera to house the lens himself.
Mother commented that she has photo booth images of our family, and she promised to dig them out for me to see. Fascinating stuff.
The studies institute also houses 100 unique translucent acrylic photo panels suspended on railings both indoors and outdoors. The photo panels depict towns of bygone eras, historic buildings, lakes and streams, significant events, like presidential visits, among other things. The panels are on display everywhere in the building.
Following our tour, we went to the library building that houses discarded books, etc., where we had lunch in the facility's "Bookends Cafe." We chose Greek quiche, which is made with chicken, tomatoes, black olives, and feta cheese, among other ingredients. The quiches came with side salads, and each salad came with a different dressing...mine was vinaigrette, Mother's was ranch, and Hubbie's was honey-mustard.
Before I sat down to lunch, I browsed the audio books and found one on tape by author Janet Evanovich that I thought we'd like to read on our next trip. We listened to an audiobook on CDs by this author on our trip today and thoroughly enjoyed it. The problem we have these days, though, is that our truck has only a tape player, and our van has only a CD player, so I have to look for audio books in both formats.
Later, we traveled across town to the dentist's office. I was in dentist's chair for about 30 minutes, while the hygienist cleaned my teeth, and then the dentist examined them. Following the exam, I sat up and watched him proceed down the hall. He looked very thin, so I asked the hygienist if he'd lost weight. I was told he had...about 60 pounds two years ago, on a hospital-sponsored weight-loss program. In the two years I've been visiting this dentist, today is the first time I noticed the weight loss. I guess that's because his hands in my mouth were the only things I've seen of him before today.
We were on the road back home before 3 p.m. It had stopped raining by this time, and the trip was uneventful. When we reached our town, we stopped by a fast food place to get cups of chili for supper, because I didn't have the foresight to plan a meal for tonight. I should have made a pot of soup yesterday.
Mother went home after supper, and, after reading the evening newspaper, Hubbie and I did the usual...watched TV, including the elimination round of "Dancing with the Stars."
It was a good day, except that when we got back to town, we found that it had rained most everywhere in the state but here. We continue in our drought.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Monday, Oct. 18
Up at 6:30 to go to water aerobics. Wow, the water was really chilly today at only 79 degrees! That might seem warm to some folks, but to us older women, it was br-r-r-r. Nevertheless, fourteen of us braved it and completed the session. I sort of got used to it and enjoyed my swim, but in the winter, I don't think I could tolerate the water being so cool.
This morning, the lady who stands beside me during aerobics mentioned that she had brought me two sudoku puzzle books. She said she'd ordered 40 of the books from an ad on the back of one of her monthly editions. They were past issues, and she said she got a real bargain on them, so she wanted to share some of them with her friends.
Back home, once I was ready for the day, I spent some time at my computer, called the ladies of my scrapbook club to remind them of our meeting on Thursday, and gathered materials for scrapbook pages I'll work on at the meeting.
Hubbie ran a couple of errands before lunch...to get a haircut, and to drop by the math and science magnet school to pick up the items we got at the silent auction last Friday night. For the first time in a long time, I didn't run any errands today, but stayed around the house to do this and that.
Mother came over to join us for lunch...something different for each of us. A leftover barbecue sandwich for Hubbie, hot dogs for Mother, and a turkey bacon/tomato/Vidalia onion sandwich for me.
We didn't do anything worth mentioning during the afternoon...each of us just whiled the time away in our own activities.
Supper tonight was leftover beef roast, with mashed potatoes and gravy, and leftover butternut squash. Funny: Mother prepared a large pot of potatoes to boil, with the intention of using part of them for mashed potatoes tonight, while leaving part of them whole to be used for beef hash Wednesday. But when the potatoes were cooked, I made the mistake of mashing the lot of them. So now, I guess we'll see how mashed potatoes work in a beef hash recipe.
Mother went home after supper, and Hubbie and I wasted time in front of TV.
This morning, the lady who stands beside me during aerobics mentioned that she had brought me two sudoku puzzle books. She said she'd ordered 40 of the books from an ad on the back of one of her monthly editions. They were past issues, and she said she got a real bargain on them, so she wanted to share some of them with her friends.
Back home, once I was ready for the day, I spent some time at my computer, called the ladies of my scrapbook club to remind them of our meeting on Thursday, and gathered materials for scrapbook pages I'll work on at the meeting.
Hubbie ran a couple of errands before lunch...to get a haircut, and to drop by the math and science magnet school to pick up the items we got at the silent auction last Friday night. For the first time in a long time, I didn't run any errands today, but stayed around the house to do this and that.
Mother came over to join us for lunch...something different for each of us. A leftover barbecue sandwich for Hubbie, hot dogs for Mother, and a turkey bacon/tomato/Vidalia onion sandwich for me.
We didn't do anything worth mentioning during the afternoon...each of us just whiled the time away in our own activities.
Supper tonight was leftover beef roast, with mashed potatoes and gravy, and leftover butternut squash. Funny: Mother prepared a large pot of potatoes to boil, with the intention of using part of them for mashed potatoes tonight, while leaving part of them whole to be used for beef hash Wednesday. But when the potatoes were cooked, I made the mistake of mashing the lot of them. So now, I guess we'll see how mashed potatoes work in a beef hash recipe.
Mother went home after supper, and Hubbie and I wasted time in front of TV.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Sunday, Oct. 17
Up around 7 a.m., started the morning by getting a beef roast ready for the slow cooker. I had marinated it overnight in garlic, onions, and vinegar. This morning, I browned the roast to a dark brown, then put it in the slow cooker with two cups of strong coffee and two cups of water.
After that, Hubbie and I had breakfast, and then I did a treadmill session and weights exercises. Mother came over and prepared a butternut squash for the oven. The squash is one that volunteered on a vine in our zinnia bed. Hubbie brought that one, along with several more, into the sunroom to cure for storage. The one we ate today had a bad spot on it, though, so it needed to be consumed immediately.
Once I was ready for the day, I spent some time before lunch at my office computer. The beef roast was delicious at lunch, along with the butternut squash, which was especially rich and succulent tasting, and leftover Parmesan potatoes from last night.
Mother went home after lunch, and Hubbie and I ran a couple of errands...to the WDCS, a pharmacy, and a grocery store.
Back home, we relaxed and watched TV. We caught up on episodes of "Lark Rise to Candleford," and Masterpiece Myteries from the public channel.
After that, Hubbie and I had breakfast, and then I did a treadmill session and weights exercises. Mother came over and prepared a butternut squash for the oven. The squash is one that volunteered on a vine in our zinnia bed. Hubbie brought that one, along with several more, into the sunroom to cure for storage. The one we ate today had a bad spot on it, though, so it needed to be consumed immediately.
Once I was ready for the day, I spent some time before lunch at my office computer. The beef roast was delicious at lunch, along with the butternut squash, which was especially rich and succulent tasting, and leftover Parmesan potatoes from last night.
Mother went home after lunch, and Hubbie and I ran a couple of errands...to the WDCS, a pharmacy, and a grocery store.
Back home, we relaxed and watched TV. We caught up on episodes of "Lark Rise to Candleford," and Masterpiece Myteries from the public channel.
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