Friday, Sept. 6

Up at 6 a.m. to get ready for water aerobics. It was actually a bit cool outdoors for the t-shirt and shorts swimsuit cover up I wore this morning. But it had warmed up nicely by the time aerobics was over. The pool was nippy, too, but I got used to it. Twenty of us showed up for the session today.

Back home afterwards, I enjoyed cups of coffee, and then went upstairs to get shower and dress. In the meantime, Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house, and she went to her jigsaw puzzle.

Back downstairs, I didn't accomplish much before lunch other than planning next week's menu. For lunch, Mother had her usual Ramen noodle soup, while Hubbie and I settled for PB&J sandwiches.

After lunch, Mother and I made peach jam, using some of the fresh peaches Hubbie and I brought home from our trip. We used the automatic jelly maker to make the jam, which yielded two pints, plus a little more that Mother took home later. Peach jam is her favorite flavor.

Mother went back to her puzzle after that, and Hubbie and I ran errands...to the library to pick up DVDs, to the farmer's market, where we bought large green tomatoes to slice for the freezer; and to the WDCS for a few groceries.

Back home, I occupied myself catching up on reading a week's worth of newspapers, and Hubble went to the vet's office to check on the cat that suffered a pelvic injury when she was hit by a car. The cat has been at the vet's for two weeks, and was ready to come home. She's in a cage in the sunroom right now, because she can't live outside anymore. She wobbles when she walks, and can't defend herself. Not sure what we're going to do with her yet. The only payment the vet asked for was a sack of cat food.

Around 4 p.m., Mother helped get things ready for supper...she added leftover baked potatoes to the remainder of the scalloped potatoes, which she topped with slices of American cheese. I put the dish of potatoes, along with a dish of beans and ham, and a dish of leftover veggies....sauteed cabbage and asparagus. Later, Mother mixed a batch of cornbread for the oven, and sliced garden tomatoes to go with the meal.

After supper, Hubbie accompanied Mother to her house, and then we watched episodes of "One Tree Hill." This soap-opera like series features supposed teens, played by actors who are obviously not. They attend a high school where all of the kids are (not very realistically) slender and beautiful.

The plots revolve around the on-again-off-again love lives of the teens. There's a self-serving father of a couple of the basketball star kids, who once was a basketball star himself, and has never lived beyond it. He is frustrated, angry, and not above doing whatever it takes to get his way. Various other adults throw monkey wrenches into things, too.