Up at 7:30. After breakfast, Hubbie and I went for a bike ride. What a perfect day for it...cool temp, low humidity. I can't remember another August like this. Normally, it's so hot and humid that it's hard to breathe outdoors.
We paid particular attention to a pond as we rode by, noting the algae (pond scum) growing around the edge. We observed it with a little more respect after attending a Master Gardener lecture on algae Thursday night. Down the rode, a herd of cows in a pasture stood in rapt attention as we rode by. I guess we were their entertainment for the morning.
The wildflowers growing in ditches and along fences are pretty...orange trumpet flowers, morning glory, periwinkle, and yellow flowers on tall stalks that I can't identify.
Back home, I got ready for the day, while Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house. She went to work on her jigsaw puzzle.
Later, after lunch, Hubbie and I ran errands...to the library, to the grocery store to get this week's free item, along with a few other grocery items, and to the WDCS. This week's free item was a can of energy drink. Not something we'll use, so we'll pass it along.
Wow, was the WDCS crowded...adults and kids shopping for lunch makings and other last-minute items needed for school, which begins Monday.
At home again, I decided to make a recipe of cream of mushroom soup, because I needed to use some fresh mushrooms in the fridge. The soup turned out really good. I used fat-free half-and-half in it that I picked up at the WDCS today.
After that, I started a pan of macaroni cooking to be used for macaroni and cheese. Had the mac and cheese with more of the burritos we made last night, and a side of coleslaw.
Hubbie accompanied Mother home afterward, and then he and I watched TV, including a 2005 movie called, "An Unfinished Life," starring Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, and Morgan Freeman. This PG-13 drama is about a woman who is forced to run from an abusive man to her father-in-law's home for refuge. She takes her daughter with her. The father-in-law has never forgiven her for the death of his son in a car accident, in which she was the driver. Will they be able to heal old wounds for the sake of the child? Good movie.
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Friday, August 16, 2013
Friday, August 16
Up at 7:30. It was such a beautifully cool morning that I wanted to go for a bike ride. So after breakfast, we donned our helmets and headed out. Didn't get far, though, because we discovered the tires on our bikes were low. Phooey.
So I did a regular session of stair stepping, resistance bands, and weights exercises. In the meantime, Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house, and then he went to a gas station of fill the air tank. Back home, he filled the bicycle tires. Maybe now we can go for a ride tomorrow morning.
Got ready for the day, then did this and that around the house until lunch time. We didn't accomplish much of anything after lunch...basically just goofed off.
Later, Mother and I put together burritos for supper, and I made a cheesy rice dish for the oven, using leftover rice. Served the meal with coleslaw and sliced tomatoes.
Hubbie accompanied Mother home afterward, and then he and I watched TV. Basically, a really dull day, but restful. We needed a down day after several busy ones filled with birthday parties, family visits, and meetings.
A movie that we watched was "Captain Correlli's Mandolin," a 2001 film starring Nicholas Cage. During WWII, in Greece, a woman's fisherman fiancee leaves to fight with the Greek army. In the meantime, she falls in love with an Italian commander. Good movie. Rated "R" for violence and brief nudity.
So I did a regular session of stair stepping, resistance bands, and weights exercises. In the meantime, Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house, and then he went to a gas station of fill the air tank. Back home, he filled the bicycle tires. Maybe now we can go for a ride tomorrow morning.
Got ready for the day, then did this and that around the house until lunch time. We didn't accomplish much of anything after lunch...basically just goofed off.
Later, Mother and I put together burritos for supper, and I made a cheesy rice dish for the oven, using leftover rice. Served the meal with coleslaw and sliced tomatoes.
Hubbie accompanied Mother home afterward, and then he and I watched TV. Basically, a really dull day, but restful. We needed a down day after several busy ones filled with birthday parties, family visits, and meetings.
A movie that we watched was "Captain Correlli's Mandolin," a 2001 film starring Nicholas Cage. During WWII, in Greece, a woman's fisherman fiancee leaves to fight with the Greek army. In the meantime, she falls in love with an Italian commander. Good movie. Rated "R" for violence and brief nudity.
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Thursday, August 15
Up around 7:30, and got ready for the day. Skipped my exercises after breakfast, so I could get the house ready for a scrapbook club meeting this afternoon. Hubbie helped with this task after he accompanied Mother to our house. Mother went to her puzzle shortly after she got here, since she's not able to do housework anymore.
Around 10:30, one of the scrapbook club members called to say she was having plumbing problems again...this time in the yard between her house and the meter. Someone was there dealing with the issue, but he hadn't completed the task in the time he thought it would take him, so she wasn't sure if he'd be done by the time she needed to leave the house, pick up the other member and come here.
Mother completed her puzzle by noon. After lunch, we started working on greeting cards. Mother busied herself trimming Christmas cards that one of the members brought last month, and I started a couple of birthday cards for our two lady friends that we visit from time-to-time. One has a birthday next week, and the other's is next month. I always make the same design of card for both.
Around 1 p.m., the other two members showed up. Glad the plumber got the job done so the ladies could come to the meeting. One of them hasn't been here for several months due to illness.
The one who had plumbing problems brought several scrapbooking tools she'd obtained at a food pantry (someone had donated them to the pantry, and obviously they weren't needed there). There are several templates, and two kits of punches...one of letters of the alphabet and numbers 0-9, with a tool for interchanging them, and the other is an assortment of design punches, with another tool for interchanging. She also brought a large flower design punch. I'm anxious to try them.
We had a great time visiting, and around 2 p.m., I served refreshments of frozen yogurt bars, with coffee. I wanted to see how the ladies liked the treats, and they loved them, just as we do. They'll be searching for them at their local markets or at the WDCS.
The meeting ended around 3:20, and the ladies headed home. Afterward, Mother and I played with one of the templates, making dimensional flowers.
Later, I gathered leftovers from the refrigerator for supper...beef stroganoff, pork chops with apples and onions, rice topped with roast pork gravy, and a mix of veggies. Sliced tomatoes, and toasted hamburger buns to go with it.
Hubbie accompanied Mother home afterward, and then around 7 p.m., we went to a Master Gardener event.
The speaker was a professor from India, here to conduct a class at a local college. He presented a slide show and lecture on algae. His English is heavily accented, but I understood him just fine. Hubbie not so much.
His talk centered on the importance of algae in bio remediation of waste water, and as the catalyst for biofuel. He admitted that this plant life is much maligned, but he emphasized it's importance to the world. In fact, he called it the "mother of mother earth," because it was the first plant life to emerge after the ice age. From it, all other plant life emerged...algae to moss to fern to pine tree.
There is an amazing variety of algae, of course, some of it quite beautiful, and some of it quite large, like the giant kelp of the Pacific ocean that can stop ships. When folks around here think of a algae, we think of pond scum.
The professor is very taken by our state, which is lush and green, and a wonderful habitat for crops. The plant life of his own country has been irreparably damaged by chemicals. So of course he warns against using chemicals in our gardens and on our crops.
We were back home around 8 p.m., and finished the evening watching TV.
Around 10:30, one of the scrapbook club members called to say she was having plumbing problems again...this time in the yard between her house and the meter. Someone was there dealing with the issue, but he hadn't completed the task in the time he thought it would take him, so she wasn't sure if he'd be done by the time she needed to leave the house, pick up the other member and come here.
Mother completed her puzzle by noon. After lunch, we started working on greeting cards. Mother busied herself trimming Christmas cards that one of the members brought last month, and I started a couple of birthday cards for our two lady friends that we visit from time-to-time. One has a birthday next week, and the other's is next month. I always make the same design of card for both.
Around 1 p.m., the other two members showed up. Glad the plumber got the job done so the ladies could come to the meeting. One of them hasn't been here for several months due to illness.
The one who had plumbing problems brought several scrapbooking tools she'd obtained at a food pantry (someone had donated them to the pantry, and obviously they weren't needed there). There are several templates, and two kits of punches...one of letters of the alphabet and numbers 0-9, with a tool for interchanging them, and the other is an assortment of design punches, with another tool for interchanging. She also brought a large flower design punch. I'm anxious to try them.
We had a great time visiting, and around 2 p.m., I served refreshments of frozen yogurt bars, with coffee. I wanted to see how the ladies liked the treats, and they loved them, just as we do. They'll be searching for them at their local markets or at the WDCS.
The meeting ended around 3:20, and the ladies headed home. Afterward, Mother and I played with one of the templates, making dimensional flowers.
Later, I gathered leftovers from the refrigerator for supper...beef stroganoff, pork chops with apples and onions, rice topped with roast pork gravy, and a mix of veggies. Sliced tomatoes, and toasted hamburger buns to go with it.
Hubbie accompanied Mother home afterward, and then around 7 p.m., we went to a Master Gardener event.
The speaker was a professor from India, here to conduct a class at a local college. He presented a slide show and lecture on algae. His English is heavily accented, but I understood him just fine. Hubbie not so much.
His talk centered on the importance of algae in bio remediation of waste water, and as the catalyst for biofuel. He admitted that this plant life is much maligned, but he emphasized it's importance to the world. In fact, he called it the "mother of mother earth," because it was the first plant life to emerge after the ice age. From it, all other plant life emerged...algae to moss to fern to pine tree.
There is an amazing variety of algae, of course, some of it quite beautiful, and some of it quite large, like the giant kelp of the Pacific ocean that can stop ships. When folks around here think of a algae, we think of pond scum.
The professor is very taken by our state, which is lush and green, and a wonderful habitat for crops. The plant life of his own country has been irreparably damaged by chemicals. So of course he warns against using chemicals in our gardens and on our crops.
We were back home around 8 p.m., and finished the evening watching TV.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Wednesday, Oct. 14
Slept late, until around 8 a.m. on this unusually cool August morning. Did stair stepping, resistance bands, and weights exercises after breakfast. If I'd realized how cool it was outside, I might have opted to ride my bike for exercise. We're supposed to get a few more mornings like this, so I'll get another chance at it.
Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house around 9:30. The first thing she mentioned was that she couldn't find her eyeglasses. She and Hubbie both declared that they'd looked everywhere. I had no idea where they were, but I trekked over to Mother's house to search for them before I got ready for the day. They were in her purse, though both Hubbie and Mother swore they'd thoroughly checked it.
She has misplaced her eyeglasses several times before, though she declares it has been only a couple of times. Anyway, I've decided to buy her a new eyeglass case...one that is brightly colored and maybe with a design...that she can easily see. The one she has now is dark blue and blends with the lining of her black purse, her jeans, and her dark shirts and jackets.
Once she had her glasses again, she went to her jigsaw puzzle. While she did that, I got ready for the day, and Hubbie ran a couple of errands.
After lunch, I began sprucing the house for a scrapbook club meeting tomorrow afternoon. Then I gathered materials needed for making a few greeting cards.
Didn't do much else after that for the rest of the afternoon except catch up on reading newspapers. For supper, I heated leftovers from Sunday...pork roast in gravy, along with potatoes, carrots, and onions, and English peas and Lima beans from another meal. Served it with individual cups of applesauce.
Hubbie accompanied Mother home afterward, and then he and I watched TV for the evening.
Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house around 9:30. The first thing she mentioned was that she couldn't find her eyeglasses. She and Hubbie both declared that they'd looked everywhere. I had no idea where they were, but I trekked over to Mother's house to search for them before I got ready for the day. They were in her purse, though both Hubbie and Mother swore they'd thoroughly checked it.
She has misplaced her eyeglasses several times before, though she declares it has been only a couple of times. Anyway, I've decided to buy her a new eyeglass case...one that is brightly colored and maybe with a design...that she can easily see. The one she has now is dark blue and blends with the lining of her black purse, her jeans, and her dark shirts and jackets.
Once she had her glasses again, she went to her jigsaw puzzle. While she did that, I got ready for the day, and Hubbie ran a couple of errands.
After lunch, I began sprucing the house for a scrapbook club meeting tomorrow afternoon. Then I gathered materials needed for making a few greeting cards.
Didn't do much else after that for the rest of the afternoon except catch up on reading newspapers. For supper, I heated leftovers from Sunday...pork roast in gravy, along with potatoes, carrots, and onions, and English peas and Lima beans from another meal. Served it with individual cups of applesauce.
Hubbie accompanied Mother home afterward, and then he and I watched TV for the evening.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Tuesday, Aug. 13
Up at 7 a.m. to get ready to go to another town to visit with Hubbie's granddaughter and her children, who are here from Michigan. Hubbie's daughter hosted the get-together, which was attended by over a dozen adults, four teenagers, and five children six years old and younger.
It was an overcast day, though for a change it did not storm. It was hot and muggy, though. The low-lying fields were swampy from all the recent rains. The rice crops are thriving, and soy beans are unharmed, but cotton is being decimated, since it thrives in the normally hot, dry southern days of July and August.
For the first time that I can remember, no hawks were on the power lines...maybe because the ditches are too full of water to be inviting habitats for rodents. Wild blooming white and pink hibiscus is flourishing alongside the ditches, though.
On the way, I drew Mother's attention to the shell of a house that burned last Saturday. The house was fine when we passed it going to Great-Granddaughter's birthday party, but on our way home, fire engines and other emergency vehicles were there, and personnel were guiding traffic around it.
It had obviously become engulfed sometime during the few hours we had been at the party, and had already burned to the ground. Nothing was left but a smoldering heap of charred wood. It's amazing, sad, and scary how fast these things can happen.
We arrived at Daughter's house around 10:30 a.m. We had taken leftover baked beans, grape tomatoes from our garden, and the angel food/pineapple cake I baked yesterday, along with a carton of whipped topping, to contribute to the meal.
Granddaughter and her three children...a six-year-old boy, a four-year-old boy, and a two-year-old girl, were already there, along with another two-year-old girl (the birthday girl).
Around noon, we were ready to eat. A few other family members had arrived, and we enjoyed a meal of rotisserie chicken, potato salad (made by Daughter's mother), the baked beans we brought, tomatoes, a veggie salad, and a variety of fresh veggies. Cake and topping for dessert, of course.
Afterward, other family members began arriving until we had the full contingent listed above. We visited until around 3:30, and then the party began breaking up. We were ready to head home around that time.
It's always nice to visit with family, but it's also tiring. So we were glad to get back home.
For supper, we opted for bowls of potato soup, with crackers and peanut butter on the side. Mother was ready to go home afterward, and Hubbie accompanied her.
Hubbie and I settled in front of TV after that. We watched a 2012 movie called, "The Forger." A teenage boy becomes an art forger.
Finished the evening with one-hour shows.
It was an overcast day, though for a change it did not storm. It was hot and muggy, though. The low-lying fields were swampy from all the recent rains. The rice crops are thriving, and soy beans are unharmed, but cotton is being decimated, since it thrives in the normally hot, dry southern days of July and August.
For the first time that I can remember, no hawks were on the power lines...maybe because the ditches are too full of water to be inviting habitats for rodents. Wild blooming white and pink hibiscus is flourishing alongside the ditches, though.
On the way, I drew Mother's attention to the shell of a house that burned last Saturday. The house was fine when we passed it going to Great-Granddaughter's birthday party, but on our way home, fire engines and other emergency vehicles were there, and personnel were guiding traffic around it.
It had obviously become engulfed sometime during the few hours we had been at the party, and had already burned to the ground. Nothing was left but a smoldering heap of charred wood. It's amazing, sad, and scary how fast these things can happen.
We arrived at Daughter's house around 10:30 a.m. We had taken leftover baked beans, grape tomatoes from our garden, and the angel food/pineapple cake I baked yesterday, along with a carton of whipped topping, to contribute to the meal.
Granddaughter and her three children...a six-year-old boy, a four-year-old boy, and a two-year-old girl, were already there, along with another two-year-old girl (the birthday girl).
Around noon, we were ready to eat. A few other family members had arrived, and we enjoyed a meal of rotisserie chicken, potato salad (made by Daughter's mother), the baked beans we brought, tomatoes, a veggie salad, and a variety of fresh veggies. Cake and topping for dessert, of course.
Afterward, other family members began arriving until we had the full contingent listed above. We visited until around 3:30, and then the party began breaking up. We were ready to head home around that time.
It's always nice to visit with family, but it's also tiring. So we were glad to get back home.
For supper, we opted for bowls of potato soup, with crackers and peanut butter on the side. Mother was ready to go home afterward, and Hubbie accompanied her.
Hubbie and I settled in front of TV after that. We watched a 2012 movie called, "The Forger." A teenage boy becomes an art forger.
Finished the evening with one-hour shows.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Monday, Aug. 12
Had trouble going to sleep again last night...it was 2 a.m. when I checked the clock before drifting off. Didn't get up until nearly 8:30 a.m. Hubbie had risen a little earlier.
Did stair stepping, resistance bands, and weights exercises after breakfast. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house while I did that. Before I went upstairs to get ready for the day, I washed blueberries for Mother to sort and bag for the freezer. Hubbie and I had bought the berries at the warehouse store on Saturday while we were in the town where we attended his great-granddaughter's birthday party.
Once I was dressed, I did several things before lunch, like going through last year's calendar to total Mother's and my volunteer hours. I'd already contacted the other two members for their hours. This information was requested by Extension Homemakers, along with a request that our club submit annual club/member dues.
After that, I downloaded photos from the Saturday birthday party to a CD, to be given to Hubbie's daughter. This was at her request. I usually just post pics to Hubbie's social network page, then obtain print copies for family members, but Daughter wanted the option of ordering photos, so that if any of the snapshots struck her fancy, she could order enlargements.
Started a couple of loads of laundry, then fixed Mother's Ramen noodle lunch. Hubbie was running errands...to the pharmacy/grocery store to pick up prescriptions, an angel food cake mix, and a free bag of Cheetos (this week's offer from the store).
Some of the free things from the grocery store are useful to us, some are not. We pass what we can't use to family members. I am using the free bottle of hair conditioner. A bottle of salsa is on the shelf to be used later. Hubbie and Mother can enjoy the Cheetos, but since they contain yellow dye, I will avoid them. Daughter was the beneficiary of a box of macaroni and cheese, and a box of stove top dinner.
While Hubbie was out, he also went to the barber shop. It was after noon before he got back. I waited for him before I had lunch.
While Hubbie was away, I noticed a road grader traveling back and forth in front of our house, so when he came back, I asked what was going on. He said a truck hauling pea gravel blew a tire in the curve (the one we can't see around when exiting the driveway), messing up the hydraulics, which caused the bed gate to open and pour the gravel out. I guess the grader was smoothing the gravel out.
Men were busily guiding traffic onto the non-graveled lane, and scraping and sweeping the smoothed gravel into the ditch. I went out to snap a picture of the process, and one of the guy came across the road to talk to me. When I mentioned how laborious their job must be, he said a street sweeper was supposed to come along soon and efficiently do away with the gravel.
After lunch, I baked an angel food/pineapple cake, continued doing laundry, and called both of the other scrapbook club members to remind them of our Thursday meeting. I worked it out so that one of the members will drop by and pick up the other one. I will take the lady back home if the one who brings her needs to run errands in town. Spent quite a bit of time on the phone with the two ladies.
A storm cropped up while the cake was in the oven, so I was really keeping my fingers crossed that the power wouldn't go off. It didn't, thank goodness.
Around 2:30, I was ready to relax for a while. Mother was working on her jigsaw puzzle. Later, we put leftover beef stroganoff, a dish of spinach, and a dish of English peas in the oven to heat for supper.
After supper, I accompanied Mother to her house, where I adjusted her TV...she had somehow hit the closed caption function, and some other function, and stuff was running across her screen and annoying her.
Back home, Hubbie and I watched TV, including a 1995 disaster movie, "Outbreak," starring Dustin Hoffman, and Morgan Freeman. Doctors and scientists scramble to contain a deadly air-borne virus.
Did stair stepping, resistance bands, and weights exercises after breakfast. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house while I did that. Before I went upstairs to get ready for the day, I washed blueberries for Mother to sort and bag for the freezer. Hubbie and I had bought the berries at the warehouse store on Saturday while we were in the town where we attended his great-granddaughter's birthday party.
Once I was dressed, I did several things before lunch, like going through last year's calendar to total Mother's and my volunteer hours. I'd already contacted the other two members for their hours. This information was requested by Extension Homemakers, along with a request that our club submit annual club/member dues.
After that, I downloaded photos from the Saturday birthday party to a CD, to be given to Hubbie's daughter. This was at her request. I usually just post pics to Hubbie's social network page, then obtain print copies for family members, but Daughter wanted the option of ordering photos, so that if any of the snapshots struck her fancy, she could order enlargements.
Started a couple of loads of laundry, then fixed Mother's Ramen noodle lunch. Hubbie was running errands...to the pharmacy/grocery store to pick up prescriptions, an angel food cake mix, and a free bag of Cheetos (this week's offer from the store).
Some of the free things from the grocery store are useful to us, some are not. We pass what we can't use to family members. I am using the free bottle of hair conditioner. A bottle of salsa is on the shelf to be used later. Hubbie and Mother can enjoy the Cheetos, but since they contain yellow dye, I will avoid them. Daughter was the beneficiary of a box of macaroni and cheese, and a box of stove top dinner.
While Hubbie was out, he also went to the barber shop. It was after noon before he got back. I waited for him before I had lunch.
While Hubbie was away, I noticed a road grader traveling back and forth in front of our house, so when he came back, I asked what was going on. He said a truck hauling pea gravel blew a tire in the curve (the one we can't see around when exiting the driveway), messing up the hydraulics, which caused the bed gate to open and pour the gravel out. I guess the grader was smoothing the gravel out.
Men were busily guiding traffic onto the non-graveled lane, and scraping and sweeping the smoothed gravel into the ditch. I went out to snap a picture of the process, and one of the guy came across the road to talk to me. When I mentioned how laborious their job must be, he said a street sweeper was supposed to come along soon and efficiently do away with the gravel.
After lunch, I baked an angel food/pineapple cake, continued doing laundry, and called both of the other scrapbook club members to remind them of our Thursday meeting. I worked it out so that one of the members will drop by and pick up the other one. I will take the lady back home if the one who brings her needs to run errands in town. Spent quite a bit of time on the phone with the two ladies.
A storm cropped up while the cake was in the oven, so I was really keeping my fingers crossed that the power wouldn't go off. It didn't, thank goodness.
Around 2:30, I was ready to relax for a while. Mother was working on her jigsaw puzzle. Later, we put leftover beef stroganoff, a dish of spinach, and a dish of English peas in the oven to heat for supper.
After supper, I accompanied Mother to her house, where I adjusted her TV...she had somehow hit the closed caption function, and some other function, and stuff was running across her screen and annoying her.
Back home, Hubbie and I watched TV, including a 1995 disaster movie, "Outbreak," starring Dustin Hoffman, and Morgan Freeman. Doctors and scientists scramble to contain a deadly air-borne virus.
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Sunday, Aug. 11
Hubbie woke up earlier than I did and was downstairs when I got up around 8 a.m. on this rainy morning. Shortly after breakfast, he accompanied Mother to our house, and we got a pork loin ready for the slow cooker. Mother quartered onions, Hubbie peeled potatoes, and I did the rest.
We did our usual Sunday routine after that. Daughter slept until noon, so she wasn't up long before I put dinner on the table.
We had the pork loin, with carrots, onions, and potatoes, and I made a recipe of gravy to go with it. Served the meal with tomatoes from the garden, and individual cups of applesauce. Daughter really enjoyed the meal.
Afterward, we watched the movie, "Mud," starring Matthew McConaughey. It was a free On Demand movie, compliments of our cable company. We could choose any movie we wanted, and this was one we have been looking forward to seeing. It's really good, and we all thoroughly enjoyed it.
Daughter stayed to visit for a while longer after the movie, and then headed home around 5:30. Before she left, we had supper...everyone chose something different to eat. Daughter opted for a deli turkey and provolone cheese sandwich, with a side of cottage cheese; Hubbie had barbecue on a bun; Mother wanted a hot dog and chips; and I ate a bowl of potato soup.
Hubbie accompanied Mother home afterward, and then he and I watched TV, including a strange movie, "Prometheus," in which explorers discover the origins of man, then have to do battle to save mankind.
We did our usual Sunday routine after that. Daughter slept until noon, so she wasn't up long before I put dinner on the table.
We had the pork loin, with carrots, onions, and potatoes, and I made a recipe of gravy to go with it. Served the meal with tomatoes from the garden, and individual cups of applesauce. Daughter really enjoyed the meal.
Afterward, we watched the movie, "Mud," starring Matthew McConaughey. It was a free On Demand movie, compliments of our cable company. We could choose any movie we wanted, and this was one we have been looking forward to seeing. It's really good, and we all thoroughly enjoyed it.
Daughter stayed to visit for a while longer after the movie, and then headed home around 5:30. Before she left, we had supper...everyone chose something different to eat. Daughter opted for a deli turkey and provolone cheese sandwich, with a side of cottage cheese; Hubbie had barbecue on a bun; Mother wanted a hot dog and chips; and I ate a bowl of potato soup.
Hubbie accompanied Mother home afterward, and then he and I watched TV, including a strange movie, "Prometheus," in which explorers discover the origins of man, then have to do battle to save mankind.
Saturday, Aug. 10
Wouldn't you know it, I woke up at 4:30 a.m. to go to the bathroom, and couldn't go back to sleep. Got up at 7 a.m. to get ready for a trip to another town to attend a birthday party for Hubbie's two-year-old great-granddaughter.
It was raining this morning, so I changed my mind about what to wear. I would have liked to wear crop pants and floral canvas shoes, but I wasn't about to wade water in those, so I ended up donning jeans and athletic shoes. Not very party-like, but more appropriate to the weather.
We were ready to get on the road around 8:30. Daughter was scheduled to come up and stay with her grandmother while we were gone, but she hadn't arrived by the time we left. I had advised her that she didn't need to rush to get here, because Mother would be fine for a few hours until she got here, as long as she didn't leave her house. Daughter works the graveyard shift, and she needed to sleep a while this morning before she attempted to drive.
We arrived in the other town around 10:30 a.m., and went first to the hobby store, where I bought several packs of blank cards, and a butterfly punch. Then we went to the warehouse store for supplies.
By now, it was nearly noon, so we went to an Italian restaurant for a soup/salad/bread sticks lunch. Service was very slow today. We were a little aggravated when our waitress met every demand of a group a couple of tables away, even though she'd ushered them to their seats after us.
I think she kept forgetting us, because we were seated at a table in a corner. It must be hard to see anyone seated there, because Hubbie's niece and husband walked right past us without noticing us. Of course, there's also the phenomenon that happens when folks reach our age whereby we become invisible.
At last, though, we got our food. All that remained was to wait endlessly for our check. Finally, the waitress brought it, and we paid a portion of the tab with a gift card I had. I wasn't sure how much remained on the card, but when the girl brought the receipts back she said "the card had $9.92 on it."
I thought she meant that was what was still left on it, though she didn't bring the card back. Hubbie chased her down and asked about it, and she came back to the table to explain that she meant that she had applied $9.92 to our tab, and we still owed a little over $5. Neither of us remember ever using that card before, but I guess we must have.
While we were at the restaurant, I called home and learned that daughter had arrived to be with Mother.
From the restaurant, we went to Hubbie's daughter's house, and then on to his grandson's house, which is just a few houses away from Daughter's.
About ten children and that many adults eventually arrived for the birthday party, scheduled from 2-4 p.m. I spent the whole time snapping pictures, at Daughter's request.
Great-Granddaughter got a world of gifts, of course, including a very expensive juvenile i-Pad from her father. The tablet is virtually indestructible, and he bought it so that the baby wouldn't be playing with the adult electronics.
The birthday cake consisted of chocolate and vanilla cupcakes iced as a whole and decorated in a "Monsters" motif. I guess this was because the two-year-old's favorite movie is "Monsters University."
The party began to wind down around 3 p.m., because various folks had other obligations for the afternoon, so we headed home, too.
Got back around 5:30. Daughter had potato soup heating on the stove, and muffins ready for the oven. We sat down to supper around 6 p.m.
Mother was ready to go home shortly afterward, so Hubbie accompanied her. Then we all watched TV until bedtime.
Busy day, so I had no problem falling right to sleep.
It was raining this morning, so I changed my mind about what to wear. I would have liked to wear crop pants and floral canvas shoes, but I wasn't about to wade water in those, so I ended up donning jeans and athletic shoes. Not very party-like, but more appropriate to the weather.
We were ready to get on the road around 8:30. Daughter was scheduled to come up and stay with her grandmother while we were gone, but she hadn't arrived by the time we left. I had advised her that she didn't need to rush to get here, because Mother would be fine for a few hours until she got here, as long as she didn't leave her house. Daughter works the graveyard shift, and she needed to sleep a while this morning before she attempted to drive.
We arrived in the other town around 10:30 a.m., and went first to the hobby store, where I bought several packs of blank cards, and a butterfly punch. Then we went to the warehouse store for supplies.
By now, it was nearly noon, so we went to an Italian restaurant for a soup/salad/bread sticks lunch. Service was very slow today. We were a little aggravated when our waitress met every demand of a group a couple of tables away, even though she'd ushered them to their seats after us.
I think she kept forgetting us, because we were seated at a table in a corner. It must be hard to see anyone seated there, because Hubbie's niece and husband walked right past us without noticing us. Of course, there's also the phenomenon that happens when folks reach our age whereby we become invisible.
At last, though, we got our food. All that remained was to wait endlessly for our check. Finally, the waitress brought it, and we paid a portion of the tab with a gift card I had. I wasn't sure how much remained on the card, but when the girl brought the receipts back she said "the card had $9.92 on it."
I thought she meant that was what was still left on it, though she didn't bring the card back. Hubbie chased her down and asked about it, and she came back to the table to explain that she meant that she had applied $9.92 to our tab, and we still owed a little over $5. Neither of us remember ever using that card before, but I guess we must have.
While we were at the restaurant, I called home and learned that daughter had arrived to be with Mother.
From the restaurant, we went to Hubbie's daughter's house, and then on to his grandson's house, which is just a few houses away from Daughter's.
About ten children and that many adults eventually arrived for the birthday party, scheduled from 2-4 p.m. I spent the whole time snapping pictures, at Daughter's request.
Great-Granddaughter got a world of gifts, of course, including a very expensive juvenile i-Pad from her father. The tablet is virtually indestructible, and he bought it so that the baby wouldn't be playing with the adult electronics.
The birthday cake consisted of chocolate and vanilla cupcakes iced as a whole and decorated in a "Monsters" motif. I guess this was because the two-year-old's favorite movie is "Monsters University."
The party began to wind down around 3 p.m., because various folks had other obligations for the afternoon, so we headed home, too.
Got back around 5:30. Daughter had potato soup heating on the stove, and muffins ready for the oven. We sat down to supper around 6 p.m.
Mother was ready to go home shortly afterward, so Hubbie accompanied her. Then we all watched TV until bedtime.
Busy day, so I had no problem falling right to sleep.
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