Wednesday, June 15

Up at 7:00, and did a treadmill session and weights exercises after breakfast. While I was getting ready for the day, county workers were busy in our yard trimming branches from trees that hung over power lines on the pole in our yard. They took the time to trim other dead limbs from the trees, too.

Mother came over early and cut up veggies and boiled eggs and potatoes for potato salad. Hubbie had peeled the potatoes earlier. While the potatoes cooled, I put together a baked bean recipe for the oven. I made two large dishes of them...probably too many for Hubbie's birthday party Friday, but we won't mind having some left to put in the freezer to take with us on a July camping trip.

After lunch, I ran errands while Hubbie worked in the yard. I went to a couple of places to pick up gifts for Hubbie, and then went to the WDCS for groceries for the party.

At one of the stores, I stood in line for quite a while behind an ancient gentleman and his wife, who obviously had been farming folks. He was regaling the young woman with information about how to cure poison ivy...make a paste from coffee and baking soda and rub it on, or rub the affected areas with fresh lettuce leaves. On and on he droned, until the young woman finally asked if she could help me, and the man moved on.

"I love that old couple," the young woman said, "but he sure likes to talk."

Then she asked if what I was buying was a Father's Day gift. "No," I said, "it's for my husband's birthday." Whereupon she launched into an explanation of how her grandmother makes her favorite dessert, including a list of ingredients and how to bake it.

Back home, I put together two potato salads...one without pickles and salt for me, and one regular batch for everyone else. In the meantime, Mother chopped more veggies for coleslaw.

Then we relaxed for the rest of the afternoon. At 5 p.m., I went to an art gallery meeting, where we spent the hour filling out bid sheets for silent auction items that will be offered at the Summer Celebration event next Monday night.

Back home, about 6:15, we had a supper of leftovers from last night...mac and cheese, sauteed squashes, and steamed potatoes.

Mother went home afterward, and Hubbie and I watched (or should say tried to watch) another ridiculous Syfy Channel, 2006 movie called, "Silent Hill." Based on a video game, a woman is traveling with her young daughter on a foggy day, when she has a car accident. She is knocked unconscious, and when she wakes up, her daughter is missing. The daughter sleep walks, and after once rescuing her from the edge of cliff near a thundering waterfall, the woman is terrified of what might have happened to her. She runs to the nearest town, where she meets up with ghouls.

After a while, we tired of that movie and moved to another Syfy feature...the 2011 movie, "Ice Road Terror." Two truckers, and an environmentalist female scientist traveling with them to deliver explosives to a mine site in Alaska, are threatened by a dormant prehistoric creature awakened by the mining operation. The creature isn't satisfied with eating the miners, it wants the truckers, the scientist, and any other hapless people it runs across.