Sunday, June 10

Slept late, until 8 a.m. this morning. skipped my exercises, as I usually do on Sunday.

After breakfast, Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house, where she sliced onions, and cut eye of round steak into strips. I browned the strips, and added the onions, along with sliced mushrooms and bell peppers. I added a can of low-sodium beef broth and seasonings, and let the mixture simmer until lunchtime.

While we waited for the meat to cook, Mother worked on her jigsaw puzzle, Hubbie worked in the yard, and I did this and that household chores. Around 11 a.m., I put potatoes in the oven to bake, and later put dishes of Lima beans, and butter beans in the oven to heat.

The meal was very good. Afterward, we watched a movie...the 2003 "Intolerable Cruelty," starring George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones. A slick lawyer falls in love with a gold-digger. PG-13 Comedy. Sexual overtones. This movie has mixed reviews, and we'd agree it's not Oscar material, but we enjoyed the humor.

Following the movie, we hopped in the van and went to the pharmacy to pick up medications for Mother and me, and to fill the van with gas. We also stopped by a local fast-food restaurant to spend the free coupons my hygienist gave me for small soft-serve ice cream cones. These were very generous cones...more than we expected. They are regularly priced at $1.59 each.

Back home, Mother was ready for another movie, so we watched an LMN feature: "Who Killed Allison Parks?" A young ER nurse is accidentally electrocuted by a defibrilator that doctors are using to try to save a woman's life. After that, she is invaded by the dead woman's memories. No one believes her, of course, so she has to solve the murder herself.

Later, I accompanied Mother to her house, and helped her take a shower, then threw a load of laundry in the washer. Tonight, she got so vigorous with the flexible shower that she sprayed everything, including the PJs she was going to wear. Threw those in the dryer for her.

Back home, Hubbie and I continued wasting time watching TV...this time the LMN 2004 movie, "Reversible Errors," based on a novel by Scott Turow, and starring Tom Selleck and William H. Macy. New details emerge in a death row inmate's appeal. A reluctant lawyer (Macy) is court appointed to the case. Selleck plays the good detective, who, for the sake of love, ultimately breaks the law by tampering with evidence.