What a way to start February...with an arctic blast. Well, I'm grateful it's not worse...our corner of the world got only cold rain and bone-chilling wind, while the mid-section of the nation was buried in snow and ice, causing power outages in many places.
Slept until 8 a.m. this morning, and then did a treadmill session and resistance exercises after breakfast. I didn't accomplish much the rest of the morning, except gather some materials for making valentines this afternoon (see examples of cards in the previous post).
Mother waited until after lunch to come over to make sure we weren't going to get any frozen precipitation. But because it had rained very hard, making her porch and yard slippery, Hubbie helped her walk to our house.
She started a pot of spaghetti sauce simmering, while Hubbie and I ran a few errands...to the bank to get a document notarized, and to a grocery store to pick up more no-sodium-added canned goods...name brands for only 49 cents a can. From there, we went to the post office, and then came home.
At home, Mother had cut up veggies for beef stew, which I put together in a slow cooker, with leftover beef roast from the freezer, spices, and canned beef and chicken broths. I wanted to get the stew done today so we wouldn't have to do it tomorrow, since Mother and I will be busy. Besides, stew is usually better when the flavors are given time to meld.
The spaghetti and sauce, with coleslaw and cottage cheese over grape tomatoes, was very good. Mother went home afterward, and Hubbie and I watched the 2009, unrated movie, "Eden Lake." A British couple go on a romantic get-away to a remote wooded lake, and are terrorized by aggressive teens.
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