Sunday, August 12

Up around 7:30. Skipped my exercises after breakfast, as I usually do on Sunday. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house around 9 a.m., and while I got ready for the day, she and Hubbie prepared veggies for the steamer...new potatoes, and yellow and zucchini squash, along with onions.

Spent the rest of the morning doing this and that. When we were ready to sit down to lunch, I started a cable channel On Demand movie..."Joyful Noise," starring Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton.

We received a notice from the cable company offering a free movie from On Demand or Pay-Per-View channels during the month of August. There were several movies that Hubbie and I might have been interested in, but I was looking for something PG or PG-13 that Mother could enjoy. "Joyful Noise" seemed to fit the bill. It's no award winner, for sure, but it's an entertaining fluff piece, with lots of energetic music, and nothing very serious for a plot.

Afterward, Mother retired to the couch for a nap, and Hubbie and I watched a movie I'd recorded on DVR..."The Greatest Game Ever Played," the 2005 true story of Francis Quinet, a golf caddy in the early 1900s, who, against all odds, became a golf champion. In his era, golf was "a gentleman's sport" of the wealthy elite, while Quinet was the son of immigrants. Very good film. We are not golf fans, but we are fans of triumph over adversity sports movies.

Followed that movie with one called, "Too Young the Hero," a Hallmark Channel film. This 1988 movie is a true story about Calvin Graham, who at the age of 12, fakes his birth certificate in order to join the Navy. Naturally, things do not go smoothly, but he eventually earns a Purple Heart for bravery at the battle of Guadalcanal. Stars Ricky Schroder.

Mother had awakened around 4:30, and joined us in watching this movie. Afterward, I accompanied her home, and waited until she had showered before returning home.

After a sandwich supper, Hubbie and I watched one more movie, "Heatburn," starring Meryl Streep, and Jack Nicholson. This 1986 film is based on Nora Ephron's best-selling novel about a magazine writer, who marries a playboy newspaper columnist, who soon goes back to his philandering ways. The novel itself is based on the author's marriage and break-up with Carl Bernstein, who, with Bob Woodward, wrote the book, "All the President's Men," about the Watergate scandal.