Friday, April 20

Today is Great-Grandson's birthday. Happy Birthday Great-Grandson!

Up at 6:30 to get ready to go to water aerobics. It was a cool, overcast morning, but fortunately the predicted rain held off until I got back home. The pool was cool, too, despite a lap swimmer in the dressing room saying it was really warm.

The substitute led us in aerobics again today, because our regular leader, who had cataract surgery last Tuesday, is suffering a severe headache. We don't know if it's related to the surgery, or not.

Not much news from the pool today. When I asked a lady standing next to me if she has gotten her veggie garden planted yet, she said she has, though she's aggravated with a decision she made to use wheat straw for mulch. Seems the straw sprouted, smothering some of her plants, and now she's having problems getting rid of it.

I left aerobics early, because I wanted to get back home and get ready to go to the Caring Hands Hospice office at 10:30. Mother and Hubbie went along, too. About ten of us gathered for pastries and coffee. The reason the volunteer coordinator asked us to gather was so she could give us each a card and notepad as a thank you for our contributions. The cards read "Volunteers like you change our world (inside) one heart at a time." The notepad says, "Volunteer, you make a lasting difference."

She also wanted to let us know that there will be a fundraising bake sale on May 5, and she'd appreciate homemade goodies for the event. Mother and I will contribute a couple of varieties of cookies.

Refreshments for the get-together included a variety of pastries...bear claws, blueberry scones, chocolate mini-cupcakes...along with a choice of juices and coffee.

Back home afterward, I gathered veggies for Mother to dice, while Hubbie and I went to the WDCS for groceries for the weekend.

At home, I sauteed veggies and ham for tonight's omelet supper, and other veggies for Dragon Soup. While I did that, Mother shredded white American cheese for pimento cheese. Then I made a batch of rice pudding, using cooked rice leftover from Tuesday's chicken dinner.

After supper, I accompanied Mother back to her house. Br-r-r! It's a drizzly, cool evening. We didn't get as much rain as counties south of us, but just enough to make it uncomfortably damp.

Hubbie and I spent the rest of the evening watching TV, including a 2010 movie called, "All Good Things." Inspired by the true story of Robert Durst, accused of, but never tried for, killing his wife in 1982. The names in the film have been changed to David and Katie Marks.