Sunday, August 26

Up around 8 a.m. this morning, but skipped my exercises after breakfast, as I usually do on Sunday. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house before 9 a.m., so she could chop onions, carrots, and banana peppers to add to a pot of pinto beans and ham. I set the pot to simmering, after adding pepper, no-salt seasoning, and paprika.

After that, Hubbie put color in my hair, in anticipation of a haircut appointment on Wednesday.

By the time I was dressed and ready for the day, it was 11:45. So I started a pan of potatoes frying in olive oil (Hubbie had peeled and sliced the potatoes in the food processor earlier). I also sauteed okra to go with the meal.

Mother peeled and sliced a Vidalia onion to top our beans at the table, and Hubbie fixed a box of cornbread mix for the oven.

We were ready to sit down to the meal shortly after noon. We love this comforting, old-fashioned, southern food, though we don't have it very often.

Afterward, Mother headed to the couch for a nap, and Hubbie and I ran errands...to a pharmacy store, and to the WDCS for a few groceries.

Back home, we did nothing of importance for the afternoon...read the Sunday paper, and watched TV, including a Lifetime Movie Network film called, "Gone." The ex-husband of a hospital nurse suffering PTSD from an earlier attack, thinks their young daughter would be better off living with him. But before he can take the child, she is kidnapped, and the nurse must rescue her.

Accompanied Mother home afterward, and then Hubbie and I resumed evening TV. Watched another LMN movie...this one called "Kiss at Pine Lake." A lakside summer campground is threatened, when developers want to buy it and build a resort. An employee of the developer company is charged with sealing the deal with the owner of the campground. She learns that she was one of the kids who attended the camp, and that the owner is a childhood sweetheart. No secret where this one goes.

Then we watched a 2009 disaster movie we've seen before. "2012" is based on the Mayan prediction of a global cataclysm on Dec. 21, 2012, and how survivors deal with it. The movie supposes that an astronomical alignment will cause the cataclysm.