Up at 6 a.m. to get ready to go to water aerobics. Road in front of the chapel still torn up. Looks like workers are laying new pipe. Detoured through the chapel parking lot. Muggy morning, but pleasant enough for the walk to the gym.
The pool was chilly, but I got used to it after a while and enjoyed swimming and aerobics. A dozen of us attended the session. No news from the pool today.
Back home, I started a pan of water boiling for macaroni. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house, and she diced onion and bell pepper for macaroni salad. As soon as the macaroni cooked, I cooled it under cold water, and I drained a couple of cans of mixed veggies to add to the pasta and diced veggies. Added spices, mustard, and salad dressing, and Mother blended the mixture. I think we made enough of the salad for an army.
After that, I got a boxed cake mix ready for making red velvet cupcakes. Mother put the batter into the muffin tins, and I put the cupcakes in the oven for twenty minutes. When they came out of the oven, I was finally ready to go upstairs and get ready for the day.
It was noon by the time I came back downstairs, so I prepared a lunch of pimento cheese sandwiches, with sides of macaroni salad.
Afterward, Hubbie and I ran errands...to the library to pick up season four of "The Good Wife;" to the newspaper to drop off this week's word search puzzle contest; to the farmers market to pick up a few tomatoes; to the bank; to the WDCS for groceries; and to the gas station to fill the van.
Back home, Hubbie and I did various tasks, while Mother worked on a new jigsaw puzzle, and the guy who is laying tile in the sunroom continued his job until he finished it today.
Later this afternoon, a storm cropped up, bringing high winds that blew small limbs and leaves off our trees, and bent the ready-to-bloom surprise lilies, as well as the veggie garden plants. I think all of these will stand back up again, though.
Hubbie was at the vet's office when the storm began, and he said there was incredibly high wind there, and a deluge of rain. He was trapped in the van until it abated enough for him to come home. He tried to call to tell me why he was delayed, but his cell phone wouldn't work...tower problems, maybe.
Fortunately, our power stayed on throughout the storm, though there were a couple of flickers...just enough so that we had to re-set the digital clocks.
Supper tonight was leftover spaghetti, green beans from our garden, tomatoes topped with cottage cheese, and garlic bread. Mother was ready to go home afterward, so Hubbie accompanied her. Later I went over and put drops in her eyes.
Hubbie and I spent the evening binge-watching "The Good Wife," as usual.
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Funny: this afternoon, before Hubbie and I headed out to run errands, he went in search of his eyeglasses. He looked everywhere upstairs and downstairs. I was checking my social network page while this was going on.
Finally, I handed him a pair of glasses and suggested that he just use those until he could find his. He took them and declared, "These are my glasses. Where did you find them?"
I doubled over laughing and choked out, "On my face." I'd been using them the whole time he was searching for them.
It was one of those you-had-to-be-there moments.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Tuesday, July 22
Up around 7 a.m. Delayed my exercises until after lunch. Shortly after breakfast, Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house, and we began work in the kitchen.
Mother diced carrots, celery, onion, and banana pepper as part of a base for Dragon Soup. I sautéed the veggies, then added diced tomatoes, and cans of chicken and beef broth, along with various spices. I let the mixture simmer for a while, then added leftover veggies and gravies from the freezer.
While the soup simmered, Mother snapped green beans from the garden, and diced onion and banana peppers. I put the beans on to simmer, and then did various things around the house until lunch time.
After lunch, Hubbie went out to work in the yard, and Mother and I went to a nearby town to buy watermelons and cantaloupes. Road work delayed us for a time. Workers are repairing a bridge along the way, so traffic was backed up quite a way, until a pilot truck led us through the area.
The work area ended just at the driveway of the place where we get our melons, so it was necessary to wait for a young woman stopping traffic to give me the go-ahead to exit the driveway right behind the pilot truck that was using the driveway as a turn-around point.
I'm glad Hubbie wasn't with us. He gets very impatient with this sort of delay when he's driving. Between the two of us, I'm the more impatient one in most circumstances. But in driving, he's the impatient one. In the interest of self-preservation, I am very calm and focused behind the wheel, because there are enough impatient, distracted, out-of-control drivers on the road. I think maybe men tend to be more impatient drivers than women anyway. It's in their nature.
Back home, I started a pot of spaghetti sauce simmering before relaxing for a while. Cooked spaghetti later, and served the meal with individual salads, and garlic bread.
Mother was ready to go home afterward, so Hubbie accompanied her. I went over there later to put drops in her eyes. Then Hubbie and I watched episodes of "The Good Wife."
Mother diced carrots, celery, onion, and banana pepper as part of a base for Dragon Soup. I sautéed the veggies, then added diced tomatoes, and cans of chicken and beef broth, along with various spices. I let the mixture simmer for a while, then added leftover veggies and gravies from the freezer.
While the soup simmered, Mother snapped green beans from the garden, and diced onion and banana peppers. I put the beans on to simmer, and then did various things around the house until lunch time.
After lunch, Hubbie went out to work in the yard, and Mother and I went to a nearby town to buy watermelons and cantaloupes. Road work delayed us for a time. Workers are repairing a bridge along the way, so traffic was backed up quite a way, until a pilot truck led us through the area.
The work area ended just at the driveway of the place where we get our melons, so it was necessary to wait for a young woman stopping traffic to give me the go-ahead to exit the driveway right behind the pilot truck that was using the driveway as a turn-around point.
I'm glad Hubbie wasn't with us. He gets very impatient with this sort of delay when he's driving. Between the two of us, I'm the more impatient one in most circumstances. But in driving, he's the impatient one. In the interest of self-preservation, I am very calm and focused behind the wheel, because there are enough impatient, distracted, out-of-control drivers on the road. I think maybe men tend to be more impatient drivers than women anyway. It's in their nature.
Back home, I started a pot of spaghetti sauce simmering before relaxing for a while. Cooked spaghetti later, and served the meal with individual salads, and garlic bread.
Mother was ready to go home afterward, so Hubbie accompanied her. I went over there later to put drops in her eyes. Then Hubbie and I watched episodes of "The Good Wife."
Monday, July 21, 2014
Monday, July 21
Up at 7 a.m., but skipped going to water aerobics, because I wanted to accompany Hubbie to the hospital for an outpatient dye test procedure. Once I was dressed, I had a small breakfast of orange juice, coffee, and a banana. Hubbie was required to fast after midnight for the procedure.
We arrived at the hospital around 9:15, but it was closer to 10 a.m. before he was called back. The tech alerted us that Hubbie would be drinking a solution that might take 30 minutes or might take hours to pass through his system so that the test could be completed. I was asked to stay in a waiting area just outside the radiology room.
The test lasted about an hour, so I was glad I had taken my tablet, so I could read my novel. Besides my novel, I read a short story in a ladies magazine I picked up from the end table in the area.
I had just finished the story when Hubbie and the tech emerged from the radiology room. Hubbie's doctor needs to read the results of the test, but the tech said he saw nothing out of the ordinary on the test. So we still don't know what's causing Hubbie's problem.
Hubbie's and my original idea was to eat lunch at the hospital cafeteria after the test, but we didn't see anything that appealed to us there, so we came on home, where I had leftover chicken noodle soup, and Hubbie opted for toast and jelly and coffee. I'd sent a helping of chicken noodle soup with Mother yesterday for her lunch today.
After lunch, Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house, and she and I worked in the kitchen, while Hubbie ran a couple of errand. First, we made a batch of blueberry muffins, and then Mother made a batch of pimento cheese.
We relaxed after that until time to prepare supper. Tonight, we had baked potatoes, along with leftover zucchini squash casserole, and the remainder of the pork chops. Sliced tomatoes topped with cottage cheese, and slices of French bread completed the meal.
Mother was ready to go home shortly afterward, so I accompanied her. Later, I went to house and put drops in her eyes.
Hubbie and I spent the evening watching episodes of "The Good Wife."
We arrived at the hospital around 9:15, but it was closer to 10 a.m. before he was called back. The tech alerted us that Hubbie would be drinking a solution that might take 30 minutes or might take hours to pass through his system so that the test could be completed. I was asked to stay in a waiting area just outside the radiology room.
The test lasted about an hour, so I was glad I had taken my tablet, so I could read my novel. Besides my novel, I read a short story in a ladies magazine I picked up from the end table in the area.
I had just finished the story when Hubbie and the tech emerged from the radiology room. Hubbie's doctor needs to read the results of the test, but the tech said he saw nothing out of the ordinary on the test. So we still don't know what's causing Hubbie's problem.
Hubbie's and my original idea was to eat lunch at the hospital cafeteria after the test, but we didn't see anything that appealed to us there, so we came on home, where I had leftover chicken noodle soup, and Hubbie opted for toast and jelly and coffee. I'd sent a helping of chicken noodle soup with Mother yesterday for her lunch today.
After lunch, Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house, and she and I worked in the kitchen, while Hubbie ran a couple of errand. First, we made a batch of blueberry muffins, and then Mother made a batch of pimento cheese.
We relaxed after that until time to prepare supper. Tonight, we had baked potatoes, along with leftover zucchini squash casserole, and the remainder of the pork chops. Sliced tomatoes topped with cottage cheese, and slices of French bread completed the meal.
Mother was ready to go home shortly afterward, so I accompanied her. Later, I went to house and put drops in her eyes.
Hubbie and I spent the evening watching episodes of "The Good Wife."
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Sunday, July 20
Up around 7:30, after strange dreams in which I was furiously making notes in a notebook, because I was somehow called upon to establish a town, and in which I was shooting but not killing deer. When I awoke, I wondered what the dreams meant, and decided that the one about establishing a town had to do with making planning notes for a future camping trip (campground=town?), and the one about shooting but not killing deer was about me going into the yard last evening to try to "shoot" a rabbit with my camera, after Hubbie said he saw one out there.
Skipped my exercises after breakfast. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house around 9 a.m., and we headed to kitchen to begin lunch preparations. She sliced zucchini, which I boiled, and she sliced apples and onions for a pork chop dish.
When the zucchini was cooked, Mother mashed it. Then she crushed crackers, minced onion, and shredded cheese, and we added those, along an egg and spices...pepper, no-salt seasoning, paprika, and powdered garlic...to the mixture.
I browned the pork chops, and after Mother layered the apples and onion in a baking dish, I added the pork chops. Mother brushed honey mixed with mustard over the top.
Later, I put the pork chops and the zucchini casserole in the oven, with a dish of sweet potatoes from the freezer. At noon, we had the meal, with slices of French bread.
After lunch, we watched a couple of shows from the PBS channel that I'd recorded on DVR. Then Mother went to her jigsaw puzzle, and Hubbie and I watched TV...other shows from the DVR. Mother was ready to go home around 4 p.m., so Hubbie accompanied her. Then he and I watched "The Good Wife" episodes.
Later, I went to Mother's to put drops in her eyes.
Skipped my exercises after breakfast. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house around 9 a.m., and we headed to kitchen to begin lunch preparations. She sliced zucchini, which I boiled, and she sliced apples and onions for a pork chop dish.
When the zucchini was cooked, Mother mashed it. Then she crushed crackers, minced onion, and shredded cheese, and we added those, along an egg and spices...pepper, no-salt seasoning, paprika, and powdered garlic...to the mixture.
I browned the pork chops, and after Mother layered the apples and onion in a baking dish, I added the pork chops. Mother brushed honey mixed with mustard over the top.
Later, I put the pork chops and the zucchini casserole in the oven, with a dish of sweet potatoes from the freezer. At noon, we had the meal, with slices of French bread.
After lunch, we watched a couple of shows from the PBS channel that I'd recorded on DVR. Then Mother went to her jigsaw puzzle, and Hubbie and I watched TV...other shows from the DVR. Mother was ready to go home around 4 p.m., so Hubbie accompanied her. Then he and I watched "The Good Wife" episodes.
Later, I went to Mother's to put drops in her eyes.
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