Wednesday, May 25

Up around 7:30, and did a treadmill session and weights exercises after breakfast. Mother came over fairly early and we located recipes for making tomato soup and baked beans to be prepared and put in the freezer for an upcoming camping trip.

Discovered that we were missing several ingredients, so after Hubbie finished mowing, we made a quick trip to a grocery store. He offered to do the errand on his own, but then decided I needed to go select what I wanted.

Back home, TV news began giving warnings of approaching storms. We weren't sure if we'd have time to prepare and cook the two recipes or not, but decided to give it a shot.

We started with the tomato soup, which is a simple recipe...all the ingredients are blended in a food processor, and then simmered for about an hour. While the soup simmered, I made my own tweaked recipe for baked beans.

As soon as the beans were done baking, Mother put sweet potatoes in the oven, and sauteed a ham slice. Around 4 p.m., thunder began rumbling, as our county was placed under a severe thunderstorm warning.

Fortunately, the storm skirted our town, but other parts of the state were under tornado warnings. We watched TV weather news all afternoon, and though nothing further developed for our town, many other counties continued under tornado warnings, with some twisters touching down in parts of the state. We don't know yet if there was any damage from the storms.

Since the supper foods were hot and ready by 4:30, we went ahead and ate early. The ham and baked sweet potatoes, along with helpings of the baked beans, were delicious.

Weather warnings abated in our area by 5:30, so Mother decided to go home. Later, Hubbie and I watched the 2006 Lifetime Movie Network feature, "Not My Life." After a car accident, a woman with memory problems begins experiencing visions in which she sees herself in another life. She thinks her medication is the cause, so she visits her doctor, and finds that the med is not what she thought it was. How is her husband involved?

Then we watched a second Lifetime Movie Network feature..."My Nanny's Secret." A woman works as a nanny for a wealthy family. One night, a family member is killed in a home invasion. The nanny fears that her troubled brother may be the culprit. She investigates on her own. Eventually, her own life is threatened.

Note: we were surprised by last night's final episode of "Dancing with the Stars." Not by who won, but by who was eliminated.