Wednesday, August 1

First day of August. Usually, this is the hottest month of the summer in our state, but after the extremes of June and July, I hope it doesn't hold true this year!

Today is also Great-Grandson's Birthday. Happy Birthday, Great-Grandson!

Up around 7:30 this morning. After a leisurely breakfast, I boiled macaroni to make macaroni salad later. Then, since the weather was moderate...overcast and in the mid-80s...Hubbie and I went for a bike ride. We broke a sweat, of course, so the air conditioning at home, and tall glasses of ice water felt great when we returned.

Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house, where she peeled and sliced peaches to be sweetened, diced an onion, and put together the macaroni salad, while I got ready for the day.

By this time, it was noon, and we had a sandwich lunch...hot dogs for Mother and Hubbie, and pimento cheese for me. Afterward, Mother went to the couch for a nap, while Hubbie and I ran errands.

We stopped by a grocery store to buy two cartons of cottage cheese, dropped the word search puzzle off at the newspaper office, went by the post office to mail a letter, visited a book/movie store, where I wanted to compare the price of a movie with an online store (found the online store is cheaper), and then went to the WDCS for a few items. I checked the price of the movie here, too, and it was lower than the book/movie store, but was still more than the online store.

Picked up Grape Festival photos that I'd ordered online last night, plus a few grocery items, including yogurt for Mother. Learned from the stocker that the price is going up eight cents on this item, and the store will no longer carry Mother's favorite flavor, vanilla. Go figure. You'd think this would be a popular flavor. The stocker said they have a limited number of it, which they plan to put on sale in a couple of days, so we'll need to go back and see if we can stock up.

Back home, I peeled and chopped tomatoes for bagel pizzas later. Mother got up from her nap as I was doing this, and wanted to help put the pizzas together.

We spent the rest of the afternoon before supper, about an hour, watching TV. In the meantime, Hubbie visited our neighbors, who had taken care of our cats while we were at the Grape Festival, to thank them with a small box of peaches and a bottle of wine.

Enjoyed the bagel pizzas for supper, with a side of cottage cheese and garden tomatoes, followed by a choice of cantaloupe or watermelon. Afterward, I accompanied Mother to her house. Then, Hubbie and I spent the evening in front of TV, as usual, including the movie, "An Officer and a Murderer." This movie is based on the true story of a high ranking Canadian military official, who breaks and enters homes, steals women's underwear, and commits sexual assault. These home invasions eventually turn deadly, before a small town detective, an FBI agent catch him.