Wednesday, July 27

Up at 6 a.m., so I could get ready to go to water aerobics. Postponed breakfast, and headed the pool around 6:45. Early morning heat and humidity created mist among the trees on the hill leading to the college that was pretty, but foreshadowed another oppressively hot day. The pool was wonderful, though.

The story from the pool today was that a woman who was murdered at her job as a cleaning woman at a post office in the southern part of the state, was the mother-in-law to the daughter of one of our members. A suspect has been arrested in the horrific crime, in which the killer dragged the victim's body to her car and set it ablaze.

Back home, Hubbie commented that he took the lawn mower to the dealership, where they found the problem right away. Seems a piece of a gumball had lodged under the pulley belt and had to be pried out. Hubbie had looked for a problem, but was unable to see the gumball. The repairman noticed a suspicious bulge in the belt that made him inspect further.

Once I was ready for the day, Hubbie and I shopped for groceries and incidentals at the WDCS. We were back around noon, when we had deli chicken sandwiches, with onions, tomatoes, and lettuce.

I was supposed to take Mother to the clinic for a follow-up urine test around 1 p.m., but I learned that she'd visited the bathroom at 10 a.m., because she couldn't hold it any longer (a mystery to me, since at the same hour Monday, she was only able to contribute a sample of about a half teaspoon, despite not having visited the bathroom since 5 a.m.).

I figured that if only three hours passed before we went to the clinic, she would have the same problem she'd had on Monday. So I called the clinic and explained the situation, and was told she could come in when she "got the urge."

By 2 p.m., she had an urgent urge, so off we went. She had no problem this time giving quite an ample sample.

Back home, we did things related to going to a grandson's wedding tomorrow. It'll be an outdoor wedding, and we anticipate that it's going to be exceedingly hot. I've decided to contribute fruit plates of watermelon, cantaloupe, strawberries, grapes, and peaches, plus a bottle of sparkling pink grape juice, and a bottle of white grape juice for those who prefer not to drink the champagne and wine being provided at the reception. Mother is one who will prefer the grape juice. I'm also taking a large stack of handheld fans for guests to use. The fans sport all sorts of advertising, but I don't think the guests will mind.

For supper, we had barbecue sandwiches, with coleslaw, sauteed potatoes, boiled yellow squash, and cherry tomatoes. Mother went home afterward, and Hubbie and I watched the 2011 Lifetime Movie Network feature, "Borderline Murder." A young law student thinks her stripper sister may have been murdered, and in her search, turns up border clinics, where cheap, but crude plastic surgery is performed.