Sunday, Nov. 3

When I woke up this morning, the time on the cable box clock was jumping back and forth between 7:30 and 8:30, and finally settled on 7:30.

Skipped my exercises after breakfast, and instead went ahead and got ready for the day. Spent the morning after that doing the usual Sunday things. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house mid-morning, and she occupied herself clipping coupons for Granddaughter.

I don't have a menu planned for this week, so for lunch I decided to make chili-mac. Served the meal with coleslaw and cottage cheese.

Afterward, we changed clothes and went to a local middle school cafeteria/auditorium, where Hubbie and I served as ushers for the community theatre production of "Arsenic and Old Lace."

One of the theater board members was there to handle the box office. Hubbie took tickets and handed out programs, and I rented cushions to audience members. The cushions, which belong to the theater and rent for a dollar apiece, are welcomed when productions take place in venues with hard seats. The seating today consisted of metal folding chairs.

My backside does not appreciate folding metal chairs, but we didn't rent cushions, since we brought our own along. We brought three cushions, but since Mother didn't need one (she was in her wheelchair), I used two of them.

The play was okay, if not an award-winner. Some of the actors projected nicely so that we had no difficulty hearing them, but a couple were difficult to hear.  One of the actors, who played an elderly woman, delivered her lines well, but she is a young woman, which even her stage makeup couldn't disguise. Two women  played male cops, and their feminine voices betrayed them.

We might have enjoyed the play more if a fly hadn't kept attacking us. Even the actors were annoyed by flies, though they tried to be subtle in shooing them. Prior to the performance, the play director busied herself swatting the pests. I guess the reason that there were so many flies is that this space is used as a cafeteria. I don't like the idea of flies in a school cafeteria, but I'm sure it's a constant battle to keep them at bay.

It was after 4:30 by the time the play was over, and as we traveled home, we enjoyed the view of autumn trees set aglow by the setting sun. None of us is happy, though, about darkness falling so early in the day.

When we got back home, I accompanied Mother to her house, and then Hubbie fixed French toast for our supper. After that, we watched one-hour shows on TV. Started getting really sleepy by 8:30, since our bodies were telling us it was 9:30.