Wednesday, April 2

Up at 6:30 this morning to get ready for water aerobics. Cloudy day, with threats of storms later, but this morning was mild enough to only need a fleece outfit topped with a fleece hoodie. The pool was warm, too, which I enjoyed. Twenty-two of us attended today.

Back home, I packed a lunch for the three of us to have at the museum at noon for the first day of the film festival.

Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house around 9:30, and she peeled and quartered onions to include with pork loins in the slow cooker. I browned the meat, and added the onions, carrots, spices, and broths and turned the cooker to low to simmer while we were gone to the museum.

Then I went upstairs to shower and dress. At 11:30, we headed to the museum, and had our lunch shortly before noon.

About 20 people showed up for the screening of four short films. Two of the offerings revolved around the theme of losing parents. The first focused on the estrangement of a father and son. When the son learns the son has only weeks to live, he decides to visit him. Their conversation is short and to the point.

The second one has the main character going to his parents' home to pack up after their death, but finds a stranger living there. What happens next is perplexing.

One film focuses on a lonely elderly woman who offers the cable guy food and drink simply to get him to stay and visit.

The best film was about a Hispanic man who is deaf and languageless (the film's term, not mine), and how his tutor finally breaks through to him. True story and very poignant. This feature is to be repeated on Saturday.

Before we returned home afterward, we went to the river to see if the circus was still setting up. The tents were already erected, but we saw a cage of several tigers, and elephants standing under an awning, as well as camels, a couple of large horses, and several ponies. Show times for the circus are 4:30 and 7:30. The weather may hold for the earlier performance, but storms could crop up for the later one. I wouldn't want to be in the big top during a storm.

Back home, we watched Monday night's episode of "Dancing With the Star." Then, for supper, we had servings of the pork roast with sides of the carrots and onions, and leftover potatoes and squashes, along with individual cups of applesauce.

Mother was ready to go home shortly afterward, so Hubbie accompanied her. Then, around 6:30, Hubbie and I went downtown to see a screening of a film about a small dying town that champions its varsity basketball team, though it is suffering brutal losses. The team struggles to compete, just as the town struggles to survive.

Today, at the museum, Hubbie and I both bought Red Eye passes, so that we can see as many films as we want for the one-time charge of $15. If storms are too severe for tomorrow night's screening, though, the event might be canceled until a later date. I know I will not be leaving home, if the weather becomes too threatening.