Up around 7:30 this morning, but skipped my exercises. After breakfast, and once I was ready for the day, I started a pot of spaghetti sauce simmering. Then I did this and that around the house...a couple of loads of laundry, programming the DVR for the week's movies and shows, etc.
While I did this, Hubbie and Sis loaded several bags of mulch from that huge pile in our yard, so Sis can mulch the gardens at her house. When Hubbie and another Master Gardener shoveled a trailer-load of the mulch into our yard a few weeks ago, creating a mountain of the stuff, I declared there was enough to take care of gardens in two counties. Our county plus Sis's county equals two counties. And there's still mulch left!
Once they'd completed this task, Sis accompanied Mother to our house. We visited until it was time for me to finish preparations for lunch. We enjoyed spaghetti and sauce, served with tomatoes fresh from the garden, topped with cottage cheese, and leftover hamburger and hot dog buns toasted with margarine, garlic powder, and Parmesan cheese.
After lunch, we decided it would be nice to go on an outing to a town about fifteen miles away to buy watermelons from a roadside vendor. This town is known for its watermelons, which are celebrated at a festival each year. There are two counties in the state noted for watermelons...a southern county where the melons grow largest, and the nearby county where the melons are declared to be sweetest.
We and Sis bought two watermelons each. Hubbie and I also bought a carton of peaches, while Sis bought a carton of okra and a cantaloupe. I mentioned to the vendor that we'd picked up two cantaloupes from his stand a week ago, and they were mushy. We had to throw them away. He insisted on replacing them with two more firm ones he'd gathered from the field today. These are firm enough that we can let them rest a couple of days before cutting them.
Back in town, we stopped by a fast food restaurant to buy their specialty jamocha milkshake. Hubbie had discovered it when he went there to have lunch while we ladies of the scrapbook club were gone on a trip to another town last Thursday. He probably would have had lunch at home, except that he couldn't be in the house for four hours after the pest control guy set off a flea-killing bomb that day.
The milkshake was delicious. At home, Mother, Sis, and I watched TV (actually, Mother and Sis mostly napped), while Hubbie went to the pharmacy to pick up prescriptions, to the WDCS for a few grocery items, and to a gas station to fill the van.
Hubbie got back around 4 p.m., and we played Michigan Rummy until around 6 p.m., when we declared Sis the winner, because she ended up with the most poker chips. By then, we were getting hungry, so Hubbie fixed grilled cheese sandwiches for supper.
Afterward, we played two games of Skipbo. Mother and Sis each won one. We quit around 8 p.m., and then Sis accompanied Mother to her house, and assisted her in taking a shower. Sis also put fresh herbs from Mother's garden in the dehydrator to dry.
Hubbie and I settled in to watch TV (actually Hubbie mostly napped), including a 2012 Lifetime Movie Network feature called, "Murder on the 13th Floor." The wife of a couple living in a futuristic computerized condominium finds out her husband is having an affair with the nanny, and the nanny is now pregnant (the computerized toilet alerted her). The wife hires killers to murder the nanny.
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