Your mother had a good Calvinist sense of the fatality of all human occupation. OldTax-lady is like that.
DP and I watched an episode of our DVD wine course, featuring several different white wines. The best was a French savigion blanc, a “Pouilly-Fume”, which was really worth $19 or whatever he paid. The lecturer said it tasted like rocks, and it really did, in a good way ... like walking in the woods near a waterfall up in the mountains.
My sister told me that one of my nieces went to the Glen Beck rally while she watched the kids. An other niece brought her cell phone over and ran an app that made animal sounds so the other nieces could guess what they were.