Wednesday, May 30

Today is Granddaughter's birthday. Happy Birthday, Granddaughter! It is also Niece's birthday. Happy Birthday, Niece!

Slept late, until around 8 a.m., on this rather dark morning that soon produced thunderstorms. I waited for a while to see if the thunder would stop so I could get on the treadmill. In the meantime, Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house, before it began raining again.

I washed a couple of quarts of blueberries, which Mother sorted for the freezer. While she did that, I did stair stepping, resistance bands, and weights exercises, and Hubbie went to the farmer's market to pick up a gallon of blackberries.

The owner of the market had called earlier to say they had only one gallon today, and if we wanted them, she'd set them aside. Yesterday, while we were at the market, she said she expected berries to arrive sometime later in the afternoon, but all of those were bought by a customer as soon as they arrived.

Once I was ready for the day, I washed the rest of the blueberries, and helped Mother sort them and bag them for the freezer. After lunch, I washed the blackberries, and we bagged three quarts for the freezer. I sugared the other quart to have with ice cream later.

Our next project was to start a pot of chicken simmering for soup later. Mother diced carrots, onions, and celery for this.

Our last kitchen project was cleaning onions from the garden...these were the larger bulbs of the green onions. Hubbie helped with this. I boiled the onions until tender. I plan to use these to make creamed onions for an upcoming meal.

After this, we relaxed and watched a Lifetime Movie Network 2006 film called, "Black Widower." Based on a true story about a charming man who is so well liked that no one suspects him of murder until the mother of his third wife alerts the authorities of her suspicions. Turns out he killed not only this wife, but two others, as well as his mother.

We followed this with another LMN movie, "Lethal Seduction," starring Melanie Griffith. A heartless attorney (Griffith) engages in immigration fraud. A journalist sets out to expose her, but gets more than he bargained for.

Later, when I got ready to finish the chicken noodle soup, I discovered we didn't have any noodles...so it was off to the grocery store for Hubbie. The soup, served with slices of sourdough bread with butter, was delicious, and hit the spot on this rain-cooled evening.

Accompanied Mother home afterward, and helped her take a shower, then threw a load of laundry in the washer. Then Hubbie and I continued watching LMN. This time it was the 2002 movie, "Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story," starring Angie Harmon. Based on a true story, a family moves to Louisiana, and later find that a trusted neigbor has installed video surveillance equipment in their home and is spying on them. The real-life Susan Wilson subsequently fought to make video voyeurism a felony. It's creepy to think that this could actually happen.

Finished our movie marathon with another LMN movie: the 2007 "Tipping Point." A medical student with controlled schizophrenia thinks a patient has been murdered by a doctor, her uncle. She conducted an MRI on the patient and found nothing amiss, but the doctor claims he had a brain tumor that killed him. The doctor tries to cover up by making it appear her schizophrenia has recurred.