As for the home alone thing...my mother goes downtown to the big library for genealogy meetings every other Saturday from fall to spring. Usually that's where she is, although occasionally she goes out with a friend of hers for either lunch or dinner and a movie or some other program at the library or the local botanical gardens.
Tonight I'm heating up the leftover mayonnaise tilapia, and serving it with a new parsnips recipe Dissie found me, along with another vegetable to be determined later. And then it's off to work again tonight, loading out Million Dollar Quartet.
