Up around 7 a.m., and did a treadmill session and weights exercises after breakfast. Managed to shower and get ready for the day before thunderstorms rolled in. Mother came over mid-morning and put chicken breasts in the slow cooker for lunch.
It has been a perfectly miserable weather day...dark, dismal, rainy, at times stormy, and downright chilly in this part of the state. So far, the rain gauge has accumulated two and half inches. We didn't leave the house today, but I'm sure low-lying areas of the town are flooded, and the river is high and rising.
Social network pages are featuring lots of snapshots of flooding in the state. Hubbie's daughter posted pics from the eastern side of the state, snapped by someone who took the shots from an airplane of a town about an hour away from us. The town is inundated, including a dinner theater, where Daughter and Granddaughter were to have gone for a musical play this weekend. Management has given notice that the theater will shut down six months for repairs. We have enjoyed attending several performances at that theater.
Locally, there was to be a flute choir performance this afternoon at the college, but I don't know if it went on as scheduled or not. We usually attend these performances in support of a couple of friends who are members of the choir, but we opted out of attending this time.
The chicken for lunch was very good, with mashed potatoes and gravy, and green beans. While we ate, we watched last week's episodes of "Dancing with the Stars." The programs had been delayed from regularly scheduled times due to the awful weather that turned to deadly tornadoes.
Meteorologists stayed on the air all day and evening last Monday to track the storms. Most folks (like us) were grateful for the coverage, though some complained of programming disruption. So the regular shows were postponed to after midnight. Monday night's episode was fine, but Tuesday night's was full of static, so I pulled that one up at the network's online site.
Afterward, Mother chose another jigsaw puzzle to work, while Hubbie and I spent the afternoon watching movies on Lifetime Movie Network, including one called, "Within," about a little girl who can see evil spirits in certain others. She witnesses the brutal killing of her mother, and then her dad moves them to another state, where an evil little girl befriends her. The town's children are being violently attacked, and the good girl's vision may hold the key to the mystery.
Later, we watched the 1994, PG-13 comedy-drama movie, "Pontiac Moon," starring Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen. An absent-minded professor decides to take his son on a symbolic road trip during the 1969 Apollo 11 moon flight. His goal is to match the odometer mileage reading on his 1949 Pontiac with the distance to the moon, which requires an 1,800 trip. His wife, an agoraphobic, screws up the courage to leave her home after seven years to go in search of the two. This is a movie on DVD that I bought inexpensively at a wholesale store.
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