Wednesday, Sept. 28

Up at 6:30 to get ready to go to water aerobics. The water in the pool was wonderfully warm, again. Hope it stays that way. Only 16 of us showed up. I don't know why, since the pool is so nice.

Back home, Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house, where she started pots of 11-bean soup and chicken soup, while Hubbie and I ran errands and shopped for groceries. We plan to take the soups, along with sandwiches materials, to the town where Daughter lives tomorrow.

Following the shopping trip, I made a peach cobbler to take to Daughter's house. And then I added noodles to the chicken soup, and made fruited Jell-o for an evening snack.

Hubbie called to check on Daughter and learned that though she expected to be dismissed from the hospital today, she will actually have to stay overnight again to undergo another test tomorrow to make sure there are no more blood clots in the leg upon which the surgery was performed. She now expects to be dismissed tomorrow afternoon.

So we don't know if we will see Daughter at her home tomorrow, or if we will need to visit her in the hospital. Either way, she will have soup and sandwich makings when she does come home, so she and the family will not have to worry about a meal.

Mother and I decided that since we'd spent quite a bit of time in the kitchen today, we didn't want to prepare a supper meal. So we went to a new steak house in town. Mother and I opted for the Hawaiian chicken, with baked potatoes, and Hubbe ordered chicken fried steak and baked potato. Mother and I brought half our meals home, since it was too much food for one sitting.

At home, I accompanied Mother to her house, then went back to her house later with a couple of helpings of Jell-o.

After that, it was TV time. Tonight, we watched the 1984 movie, "The Bounty," starring Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Liam Neeson. Based on the classic story, "Mutiny on the Bounty," it's the story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny.