Sunday, May 19

Slept late, until 8 a.m. Skipped my exercises after breakfast, since it's Sunday, and went ahead and got dressed in work clothes. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house around 9:30.

We did our usual Sunday things, and then at 10:30 a.m., we prepared vegetables for the steamer....yellow and zucchini squashes, and red potatoes. I originally planned to use new potatoes, but Hubbie forgot to pick them up when he shopped the other day.

Started the veggies steaming at 11 a.m. Mother went to her jigsaw puzzle then, and I read the Sunday newspaper. I had hoped the veggies would be cooked by noon, but they were not, so we pushed our lunch hour to 1 p.m.

In the meantime, I heated a cup of coffee for Mother, which she had with part of a chocolate chip scone, so she wouldn't get too hungry before lunch.

When the veggies were done, I made a recipe of cornbread, and a pan of canned biscuits. It was shortly after 1 p.m. by the time we sat down to the meal.  

Afterward, Mother went back to her jigsaw puzzle, and Hubbie and I changed clothes to go to the museum for a program on ancient American Indian artifacts. A local attorney has been collecting them and studying their origins for the past forty years.

He spoke for about an hour and a half, and presented a slide show of pictures of artifacts he and others have collected. The slides began with the Paleo era, and proceeded to the Archaic, the Eastern Woodlands, and the Mississippian culture, and included images of arrows, pottery, gorgets (decorative ceremonial stone disks) pipes, and large flat stone disks used in a game called "Tchung-kee (chunky)," in which the disks were rolled, and young competitors threw spears to try to come closest to the disk when it fell.

I was interested to learn that our state has the greatest wealth of Indian artifacts, and that the oldest known cemetery in the western hemisphere is located about an hour from our town.

The speaker emphasized that most of the burial artifacts were unearthed at a time prior to a law enacted that now protects Indian burial sites...a law spurred by grave looters, with only a commercial interest in the artifacts.

It was 4 p.m. before we got back home. By that time, Mother was ready to go home, and Hubbie accompanied her. Then he and I went to a home improvement store, where he bought packages of summer squash and bean seeds. Back home, he changed clothes and went to the veggie garden to plant the seeds.

While he did that, I uploaded more photos to an online storage site. I managed to get three large files uploaded.

Later, Hubbie and I had a supper of raisin bran cereal, toast with blueberry preserves, fresh oranges, and coffee. Then we settled in to watch TV, including a 2002 Lifetime Movie Network film called "Murder in Greenwich," based on the true story of  the murder of fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley, and the former LAPD detective who solved the crime after 25 years, which resulted in the arrest and conviction of Kennedy nephew, Michael Skakel.

Then we watched another Ruth Rendell mystery movie on a DVD borrowed from the library.