Friday, June 10

Up around 7 a.m., and did a treadmill session and weights exercises after breakfast. Mother came over while I was getting ready for the day, but she felt kind of wiped out, so she relaxed for the morning.

Didn't do much this morning beyond planning a menu and making a grocery shopping list.

Later, Hubbie and I ran a couple of errands...to the hydroponic farm for tomatoes, and to the WDCS to shop for both Mother and ourselves.

It was a little after noon before we got back home. After lunch, we took everything off the surfaces of the tables in the living room and den, and moved small furniture to other rooms in anticipation of the carpet cleaners coming Monday. The cleaners will move the large furniture.

We finished the task around 3 p.m., and then Hubbie and I went to a roadside vegetable market to buy a quart of blueberries and a quart of blackberries. From there we went to the city clerk's office to apply for a trash pick-up fee exemption for Mother. It was granted, of course, since she has limited Social Security income. She accumulates very little trash in the course of a week, and Hubbie always puts it in our barrel to be picked up. So there's no need for the county to assess a fee for her house, anyway.

Later, for supper, we had the leftover pasta/tomato soup dish, with cottage cheese and hydroponic cherry tomatoes, along with slices of the Neo-Tuscan Boule bread.

Mother went home afterward, and Hubbie went out to work in the yard. I changed clothes and went to the art gallery downtown to attend a reception for the opening day of a new traveling exhibit from the state museum of art in the capital city. It is an exhibit of small works on paper. A local artist is featured, along with artists from surrounding towns.

There were an equal number of photographs and art in various other media. What struck me about several of the works was how much the digitally manipulated photographs look like paintings, while the art works are so finely detailed that they look like photographs.

From the art gallery, I went down to the river, where a Relay for Life event was being held. The relay will take place tomorrow morning at 6 a.m., but tonight there was a Mardi Gras event, with booths representing various businesses and organizations, where food, drinks, jewelry, t-shirts and caps, Mardi Gras beads and masks, etc., were being sold to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

Caring Hands Hospice was selling Beignets, so I bought some as my contribution. I won't eat them, of course, since they are loaded with butter and eggs and are fried. But Mother and Hubbie can share them.

I was back home around 7 p.m., and Hubbie and I watched the very suspenseful 2002 drama, "Enough," starring Jennifer Lopez. An abused woman flees her husband, taking her young daughter with her. She just barely stays one step ahead of her wealthy spouse. She finally decides to fight back in hunted becomes hunter fashion.