Saturday, July 21

Had one of those nights last night when I didn't drift off to sleep until around 2 a.m. So I slept late this morning, until around 8:30.

Did stair stepping, resistance bands, and weights exercises after breakfast. While I did this, Hubbie went to the barber shop. When he got back, he accompanied Mother to our house.

I spent the morning doing this and that. After lunch, Mother took a nap, while Hubbie and I ran errands and shopped for groceries. We started our rounds by going to the greeting card shop, then to the farmer's market to buy peaches.

We also decided to look for the beauty shop for which we won a gift certificate yesterday for a wash and cut, but we couldn't find it. Tried to call the shop this morning, but it wasn't open. I'll try again Monday.

Mother was up when we got back around 2:30 p.m., so she sorted beans to be soaked overnight, made colesalw dressing, and sliced tomatoes.

We watched TV after that until time for me to prepare supper, which was barbecued pork chops, baked sweet potatoes, green beans, coleslaw, and sliced tomatoes. We anticipated that Sis would be here around suppertime, but she sent a message that she was running late, and it would be later in the evening before she arrived.

It might have been providence that she didn't arrive earlier, since Hubbie saw a sizable limb drop from one of the trees and land in the driveway right in the spot where she normally parks. As luck would have it, it narrowly missed our camper, too.

Mother stayed at our house until around 7 p.m., before finally deciding to go home. I accompanied her.

Later, Hubbie and I watched TV, including a movie on DVD from my collection..."Nightjohn," starring Beau Bridges and Carl Lumbly. Based on a novel by Gary Paulson, this 1996 movie is about a 12-year-old slave who faces an awful future, until a former runaway slave arrives at the plantation and teaches her to read and write. Teaching slaves to read and write is punishable by death. Trouble brews as a result.