The day today began with a trip downtown to Manitowoc Coffee for our breakfast. Mom and Lynn customarily go every Saturday, and today Jill and I tagged along. Since I don't drink coffee, Diet Coke was my beverage of choice along with a sugar cookie decorated to look like an ornament. Oh my, so delicious! I also bought a Rice Krispie treat and a molasses cookie to take along back to Mom's.
Jill had ordered cut-out cookies from a local bakery so Lynn took us along to pick them up. I went in with Jill and bought a half dozen more of the same cookies I just had at the coffee shop. Plus, I chuckled a bit as I ordered it, a marble rye! I had a choice of a round loaf or a regular loaf, so I chose the round. The young lady came back to report she had no round ones. Are they just messing with me, or what? A regular loaf is just fine, thanks, a seeded rye will do.
From the bakery Lynn drove us all over to Wal*Mart. I needed to pick up a few things and we ended up with a rather full trunk between us four ladies. She has Angelo's car seat in the trunk besides so we had to work around it. What's fun about going to such a store is seeing people that I know there!
At the store, I picked up a few menu items to make dinners for Mom and I during my stay. That makes for heavy grocery bags to carry from the car to the apartment. Jill secured a rolling serving cart for us to tote our purchases upstairs. Good! I noticed one of my bags was starting to tear so I am glad for the cart. Such a thing would come in very handy at The Palace!
This afternoon I got a phone call from my friend, Twila, in FL. She was calling to see how I was after hearing that horrible news from CT. She said "for some reason you came immediately to mind..." and we agreed what that reason was. I have the most marvelous friends who make me rich without measure!
My mom is going to mix up a meatloaf for our dinner this evening, "if I remember how to...", she said. I trust it will come back to her, as she was the maker of the best meatloaf to my memory! Right now I get almost comparable meatloaf at Cracker Barrel, but am anxious to have a piece or two of Mom's recipe. Having the oven on will also help to warm the rooms a bit, as it's rainy and damp outside today. At least we had a day and a half with sunshine!
Last night's concert at the Civic Center was simply marvelous. Besides the excellent musical presentations, it was great to see so many people there that I knew. Tommy Drill, the official Greeter for the City of Manitowoc, was saying hello to my mom and Lynn, but then interrupted himself with shouts when he spotted me coming up the ramp. That was heart-warming! One lady I had sort of been looking for I never did find, though. Judy S., I was looking for you, too!
The MLHS students are quite talented and as one mom told us today, 'well rounded', mostly because they need to be! Being a smaller school, kids must participate in more things they ordinarily might not. Athletes playing in the band, artists singing solos, and so on. Amy, the mom I spoke with, said today how it wouldn't be so busy if they didn't have to go to school besides!
