Monday, Nov. 25

Br-r-r.....cold morning, with freezing rain. Decided to skip water aerobics and snuggle in bed until around 8 a.m. But I did do stair stepping, resistance bands, and weights exercises after breakfast.

Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house around 9:30, and she worked on her puzzle, while I dressed and grabbed my camera to go out and snap some photos of ice-covered autumn leaves on trees, a feather-fluffed bird sheltering on a bird feeder adorned with icicles, and a pumpkin turkey coated with ice.

I really should have been doing some housework in anticipation of Thanksgiving, but I've come to believe that it's important to seize the day. An icy day this early in the year is unusual, so I just had to go out and capture it. Then, of course, I had to upload some of them to my social network page.

I did manage to do a few things around the house, like ironing the table clothes, but not much. I stayed occupied, though, doing this and that unrelated to housework.

After lunch, I gathered veggies...yellow squash, carrots, onions, celery, bell pepper, and banana peppers...for Mother to cut up for making stir fry.

Around 1 p.m., the cable guy came, because our land line caller ID has not been showing up on the TV screen. This necessitated that he go up to the office to check the modem. Drat, if I'd known he would be going there, I would have tried to clear a path, since there are several boxes of stuff from the bathroom scattered around the room, some of my clothes flung over a chair, and pairs of shoes out of the closet. The computer area is none too neat, either.

But, the guy seemed not to notice or care, Hubbie said, because he was a bit shaken after leaving the last place he worked. Seems that while he was there, the daughter of the home owner announced she was going to take a bath.

A few minutes after she'd gone into the bathroom, she screamed. Her mother tried to get in, but the door was locked. So she prevailed upon the cable guy to get the door open, which he was only able to do with a coat hanger.

He suggested that maybe an ambulance should be called, but the mother said that the girl had suffered an epileptic seizure, and she was sure she would soon recover. The cable guy was relieved and anxious to leave after that, but the mother begged him to stay until her husband got home. He said this was one of the strangest experiences he's had while on the job, and it unnerved him.

He replaced the modem, which of course didn't bring back the caller ID, so he thinks he'll need to replace the cable box. But it will be a few days before he can bring one to us. In the meantime, he urged us to watch whatever we have recorded on the DVR, since the new one will be blank.

Later, I prepared the stir fry and served it with rice, and slices of warm French bread.

Afterward, Hubbie accompanied Mother to her house, and then we watched TV for the evening, including a 2004 PG-13 movie called, "Ladies in Lavender," starring Maggie Smith, and Judy Dench. In the 1930s, two elderly English ladies who live together in a seaside cottage find a young Polish man awash on the shore.

They nurse him back to health, and along the way discover that he is an extremely talented violinist. Even though he is very young, one of the old women becomes half infatuated with him, and gets jealous when a beautiful young woman artist enters his life. Add to this the fact that an older doctor has his cap set for the young woman, and things get complicated. Good movie.