Sunday, Feb. 24

Up at 7:30, but skipped my exercises after breakfast, as usual, on Sunday. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house around 9:30, and we put together a pot of spaghetti sauce to simmer. Mother chopped onions, bell peppers, and banana peppers for it.

In the meantime, Hubbie went to a grocery store to pick up another Sunday newspaper, since the one delivered was soaking wet from being thrown into water in the ditch. He also picked up a loaf of French bread, which I split down the center so Mother could spread it with garlic butter.

After she'd finished in the kitchen, she clipped coupons for Granddaughter, while Hubbie put color in my hair in anticipation of a haircut appointment this week. By the time I'd gotten ready for the day, it was after 11 a.m., so I cooked spaghetti, made salad, and popped the garlic bread into the oven.

Mother opted to go home after lunch, because she didn't want to attend a college production of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" this afternoon. I vascillated in deciding if I wanted to go or not, but finally decided I should, since the college drama professor will be retiring at the end of the year, and this is his final production. I've worked with this professor in the past, doing photography for him. We also served together on the community theater board.

Rather than being produced as a traditional Shakespeare play, it was set in New York City in 1968. The character, Olivia, is pursued by two men. Rejecting both men’s advances, Olivia instead falls in love with Viola, who is disguised as the male Cesario.

The play is a comedy, and I enjoyed the humor of it, but Hubbie had difficulty understanding the actors. And what he did understand, he couldn't appreciate, since it was in the language of Sharkespeare.

The play had a minimal set, which consisted of both the floor and risers being painted in the fashion of large and brightly-colored flowers and butterfly designs reminiscent of the 1960s. The costumes were circa-1960s, too. I'm more than a little old-fashioned, and I prefer traditional Shakespeare settings and costumes, but this version was tolerable.

After the play, we went to the WDCS for a few things, and to a grocery store to take advantage of coupons we received in the mail recently...some were for free things, like a dozen eggs, and a package of frozen veggies, while others were cents-off.

We were back home around 5 p.m., and spent the rest of the evening watching TV, including a DVD movie from the library...the 2005 film, "Smile." A privileged teenage girl gets the opportunity to volunteer to go to China with a Doctor's Gift Program, which provides reconstructive facial surgery to children. She becomes friends with a Chinese girl, who shares a birthday with her. The Chinese girl has refused to consider surgery, preferring instead to hide behind a veil, but the American teen gives her hope for a new life, and the American girl learns to think of someone other than herself. Very good movie.

We followed that with another movie from the library..."The Story of Ruth," a 1960 film based on the biblical friendship of Ruth and Naomi.