Slept late, until nearly 8:30 this morning, and skipped my exercises. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house around 9:30, and we got a pot of pinto beans started cooking. Mother chopped onions, carrots, banana peppers, and cubed ham for the beans, and I added cans of chicken broth and beef broth, plus spices.
While the beans cooked, we watched "A Charlie Brown Valentine," followed by "The Help." Both features are appropriate for February...the Charlie Brown one for obvious reasons, and "The Help," in recognition of Black History Month.
The beans and ham were especially good today, served with potatoes fried in olive oil, and corn-on-the-cob. Hubbie did the honors of peeling the potatoes and slicing them in the processor. Mother mixed a batch of cornbread to go with the meal. I baked a pan of canned biscuits, too.
After lunch, Mother worked on her jigsaw puzzle, while Hubbie and I shopped for groceries at the WDCS. I wasn't exactly in the mood for shopping, but since we were out of milk and bread, there wasn't much choice. At least it was a nice, warm day to go out, unlike yesterday, when it was a little stormy.
Back home, Mother was ready to go home, so Hubbie accompanied her. As soon as I'd put the groceries away, I made raspberry Jell-O with fruit cocktail.
Then Hubbie and I settled in to watch TV...a couple of movies borrowed from the library. The first was an oldy-goldy, "The Final Countdown," a 1980 sci-fi film about the USS Nimitz and its crew being catapulted via an extraordinaty lightning storm back to Dec. 7, 1941, just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
The second film was "Northanger Abbey," a 2005 BBC production. The movie is, of course, based on the novel by Jane Austen. A young woman is addicted to gothic novels, and when she's invited to an eerie family estate, she lets her vivid imagination run away with her.
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