Monday, April 28

Up around 8:30 this morning. Did stair stepping exercises after breakfast, but skipped resistance bands and weights, because of my thumb. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house mid-morning.

Spent most of the day communicating with family online and reading newspaper stories about the disaster. The magnitude of the destruction and loss of life is difficult to process. It's unimaginable. Today, there was constant reporting on TV about the event. Already, folks in the area are trying to recover, and lots of folks from nearby communities are trying to help. Help is also coming from other states.

Our town was spared from a tornado, but not from torrential rain. It is reported that we received a record number of inches of rain...over seven inches...which is the most since 1918. Flooding caused damage around town, including washing out train tracks, causing a mud slide, tearing up road paving, causing the river to rise, etc. Several people had to be rescued from their cars and homes. Our yard was deep in water, but no other harm came to our property.

Later, we had a supper of leftover chicken noodle soup, with biscuits and honey or jelly. Hubbie accompanied Mother home afterward. Then around 7 p.m., he and I went to the college to attend the sports awards event. This was not something I was particularly interested in, but Hubbie wanted to go in support of his niece, whose husband is the basketball coach.

We arrived at the same time as Niece, Nephew, and Great-Niece, and sat with them at the same table. The president of the college also joined us. The event included desserts and drinks. There was an array of desserts to choose from. I chose cheesecake topped with cherries, and a small portion of a lady fingers dessert with a filling that tasted of chocolate and coffee. It was good, but rich.

Young women's clothing styles are pretty daring these days. Most of the co-eds wore dresses that barely fell below their buttocks. And they wore extremely high heels with the dresses. They had to carefully lower themselves into chairs to keep from exposing themselves. It was more amusing than sexy.

The event dragged on until after 9 p.m., while coaches for men's and women's golf, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's basketball, and baseball talked on and on about their athletes. My eyes glazed over, but I applauded each honoree.

We were ready to go to bed shortly after we returned home. It was an exhausting day.