Wednesday, June 20

Summer Solstice...half a year gone already. It's the longest daylight day, so minute-by-minute, we'll inch toward shorter daylight days. I like the long daylight months. I also prefer warm weather over cold weather, even though some of the summer days in our part of the world are brutely hot and humid.

We were up at 6:30, so I could get ready to go to water aerobics. Nineteen of us showed up this morning, more than we've had in a long time. The water was cool, but not unbearable. I enjoyed the session, as usual.

Back home, I did this and that, including going through my photo mats to find something to match a photograph I planned to donate to the arts council for the Summer Celebration Friday night. Succeeded in finding a suitable mat, but had no frames the right size.

So off Hubbie and I went to find a frame. But first we stopped by a dollar store to pick up a birthday card for a great-granddaughter. At the WDCS, I found an inexpensive frame. I figure whoever wins the bid for the photo will want to frame it to suit themselves, anyway.

Picked up several other items at the WDCS, stopped by the bank, and then returned home to fix lunch. After lunch, I framed the photo, and prepared a bithday card for Great-Granddaughter. Then off we went again...this time to the post office to mail the card, and to the art gallery to deliver the framed photo.

At the gallery, the director noted that she'd ordered assorted adult beverages for the Summer Celebration, and she needed to run to a nearby town to pick them up at a package store that gives us a price break, and allows us to return any unopened products for a rebate. Since she is being run ragged coordinating the event, we volunteered to pick up the beverages.

Stopped by our house to pick up Mother for the trip...thought she'd enjoy the outing, which she did.

We got back home around 5 p.m., and Mother helped me prepare supper...she sliced Vidalia onions and tore lettuce for turkey bacon/tomato/lettuce/onion sandwiches, served with leftover potato salad, and a side of green beans from the garden.

Before we sat down to supper, Daughter called to let me know a wildfire was in progress near Granddaughter's home. Two homess were already destroyed, and there was an alert in the neighborhood for possible evacuation.

Granddaughter hurried to gather necessities and valuables, in case the call came to leave the area. A very tense evening for her, and for those of us awaiting word about the fire. Fire departments from at least five surrounding communities were on the scene and managed to contain the fire before it spread.

After supper, I accompanied Mother to her house, and helped her take a shower, then threw a load of laundry in the washer.

Back home, Hubbie and I watched TV, including a Lifetime Movie Network film called, "Game of Your Life." A highly talented video game designer wins a scholarship to a prestigious digital design institute. Back home, though, his father is having financial difficulties, and the young man must decide whether to go back home and give up his dreams, or continue at the institute.