Up at 7 a.m., but skipped my exercises after breakfast so I could shower, dress, and be ready when Son and Daughter-in-Law arrived. They arrived shortly after Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house.
It was raining a little bit, but Son didn't let that stop him from getting on the job. In no time at all, he got it done. He also dealt with a leak in the sunroom roof.
Before lunch, Hubbie and Son went to the grocery store to pick up coleslaw, which somehow had been overlooked in shopping for groceries yesterday. I asked him to also get an angel food cake mix, and a can of crushed pineapple.
In the meantime, Daughter-in-Law mentioned that she'd like to have a watermelon from the close by town that is famous for them. So I called Hubbie and suggested he go to one of the roadside vendors to pick up a couple...one for Son and Daughter-in-Law, and one for us. The season for them is drawing to a close, and I wanted one more.
When they returned, I noticed that Hubbie had bought an angel food cake instead of an angel food mix. My plan was to bake a pineapple angel food cake, but instead we just had the cake for dessert.
Lunch consisted of barbecue on buns, baked beans, coleslaw, tomatoes from the garden, and the cake, as well as Reliance grapes.
We spent the afternoon visiting after that, until around 2 p.m., when Son and Daughter-in-Law needed to head home, because he had a 3 p.m. appointment.
Hubbie, Mother, and I spent the rest of the afternoon watching a 2011 movie I'd recorded on DVR..."The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel." This is a British comedy/drama about several senior citizens, with varying problems, who decide to move into a hotel in India, based on a glowing report of it on the Internet. The hotel turns out to be dilapidated, but they eventually grow to love it, while making new friends. Rated PG-13.
After the movie, we fixed scrambled eggs and toast for supper, using the eggs that Son and Daughter-in-Law brought. I accompanied Mother to her house afterward, and then Hubbie and I watched another movie..."The Gail Devers Story," a 1996 true story film about an Olympic gold medal hurdler, who was diagnosed with Graves Disease (a disease of the thyroid). She was given beta blockers and underwent radiation treatment.
Her feet swelled, cracked and oozed blood. This went on for two years, and just as doctors were considering amputating her feet, it was discovered that radiation treatment was making her disease worse. She eventually overcame her problem and went on to win the 100m in Barcelona. A good story of triumph over adversity.
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