Sunday, Sept. 8

Up around 7:30, but skipped my exercises after breakfast, as I usually do on Sundays. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house around 9 a.m., and we put together a meatloaf. I put the meatloaf in the oven at 10 a.m., then went upstairs to get ready for the day.

Back downstairs, Hubbie peeled potatoes, and later I boiled them and mashed them. The meatloaf was cooked by 11:30, so I heated the green beans I'd cooked yesterday, and made gravy for the potatoes. Mother sliced tomatoes for the meal, as well as bread that Sis provided last weekend.

Following the meal, we went to the movie theater for a 1 p.m. showing of "The Butler." This is a very good movie, and we enjoyed it. It's startling to realize that I've lived through all the major events touched on in the movie...the Civil Rights Movement, the assassinations of John Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., Nixon's resignation, Vietnam, and all the way up to the election of the first African-American president. Forest Whitaker does an excellent job of portraying a butler in the White House, who served eight presidents in the thirty-four years he worked there.

There were fewer than ten people in the theater, which sort of surprised me. But the movie has been in the theater a week or so now, and there will be two more showings today, and three tomorrow. There might have been more attendance during the first week the movie showed.

Back home, we had a dessert of chocolate cupcakes, with ice cream, and cups of coffee. Then Mother was ready to go home, so Hubbie accompanied  her.

Later, we had a bacon and egg supper. Tried some of the strawberry jam we made yesterday. It's soft, but perfectly fine, thank goodness.

We spent the rest of the evening watching TV, including episodes of "One Tree Hill."