Had to do it

Springing along

I have to get this going before tomorrow since we are expecting more snow and rain and wind and grey.  Sit down for this news.  Two days, I said two days of sun have just occurred and this is the third in a row.  Granted it's only 29 degrees but sun?  Give me the sun and I can overlook that thermometer.  On my morning walk with the pooch, perhaps I should say on my morning stop and start and stop and sniff and stop and stroll but I digress, on that walk I saw cardinals flying about (thought they were all in Rome) and buds on some of the shrubbery.  Came home to this

Yes.  Crocii around my tree - yellow purple and white although they really don't show up very well.  Can it be that Spring is trying to ...spring that is.  One can hope.

Hope you are not about to be snowed upon.  Hope it really will turn into rain as they are predicting and by Wednesday my yard will look like this again but more blooms will have erupted.

Happy Spring to all.

Waiting for Spring

Wow!  I have been gone a long time.  Here it is the end of February, and I say Thank God for that.  February has never been a favorite of mine for reasons I will share one day.  Where have I been and what has been happening?  Well, you may not as those questions but, no matter, I am answering.

December was a crazed blur as I'm sure yours was as well.  My niece and her husband and her parents bought a home together, in-law space and all, and they moved in and wanted to have Christmas there.  Prior to Christmas and after Thanksgiving we attended a baby shower for her in the new home.  That was lovely and busy to say the least.  Christmas was the usual but since no celebration was occurring here and we were having some rooms painted right after the holidays I was off the hook as far as decorating was concerned.  We did, however, have to take down pictures and pack up knick knacks and generally get ready for the painters.

The day before Christmas Eve my husband was stricken with whatever the virus of the day was.  He ran a high temperature and had a sore throat and chills and headache and whatever else could be part of the nastiness of the season.  He was to be the cook at our niece's but alas that was not to be.  I had to pack up the car and deliver the pariphernalia necessary for the event as well as the biggest standing prime rib known to man.  My poor brother in law was the designated chef.  On the morning of Christmas Eve I took the hubster to an urgent care clinic where they pronounced him ill indeed and sent him home with antibiotics.   At that point his malaise had evolved into bronchitis. 

My nephew was staying with us for the holidays and I had to leave my man alone so that I could take my nephew to the party house.  My husband took several dozen phone calls from his brother as the meal progressed.  The evening was a huge success and my nephew and I arrived home with what seemed like more food than we sat down to.  Poor hubby was without appetite and to this day is upset that he never got to taste the beef or any of the other goodies we brough home to him.

The illness stuck around through the New Year so we celebrated with hot tea and early to bed.  He really didn't feel much better until a full two weeks or more had passed.  Then we were hit with the painters and the recovery from that which we are still slowly going through.  We hate to hang pictures on such nice new pristine walls. 

We have also had snow and when the snow abates we have rain.  Sigh.  Here is my picnic table waiting for Spring. I am too.

A Thanksgiving to be Grateful For

Oh Dear!  I didn't take pictures for the Thanksgiving festival.. our oven wouldn't start.  Eleven people coming, a 20 pound turkey, people bringing side dishes that need to cook in the oven.  Just OMG!!  Why on earth did I forget to take pictures????

Fortunately friends were dining away and had an empty kitchen we borrowed.  We should have borrowed the whole house but we only used the oven.  Unfortunately they live a 10 minute drive away so much back and forthing was done.  We also used the gas grill to cook some of the side dishes and believe you me much wine was poured. 

After all that, we sat down to eat on time for the first time in our lives.  How did that happen?  I guess it's because I didn't take pictures.  Who knew that delayed everything so?

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, not a Harvest Holiday or whatever damned pc term is used.  It's Thanksgiving folks!!! Indians and Pilgrims and all.  A time of thanking God, neighbors, family, friends and total strangers for the good things we have, the good health we enjoy and the wonderful country we live in.  I'll be back for the Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday Jesus post.  Bless you all.

From last year  -- couldn't find these little guys this year.  Probably another reason dinner was delayed in years past, took too much time to put the goodies on the plates.

Later.......

Veterans' Day

I realize that Veterans' Day was yesterday but many people are on holiday today so it is an extension of Veterans' Day.  We celebrated yesterday at an Irish Pub where a benefit for Wounded Warriors was takiing place.  My cousin's band was there and the place was packed.  We arrived at 7:00 or so, had dinner and sat through the music.  Dancing was taking place but the dance floor was mobbed and most of the dancers had been there since way before 7:00 it seemed.  We sat in our seats and clapped and sang and tapped our feet.  We waited until the band took a break, my cousin came over and spent a bit of time with us and we said our farewells and left by 9:30 or so.  It was a good way to honor the veterans.  Quite a bit of money was raised at the door and raffle tickets as well as prizes being auctioned off.  Hope you were able or are able to honor the veterans too.

God bless our veterans and God bless America!

The Virginian: "Put not your trust in princes"

The Virginian: "Put not your trust in princes"

The Post of Shame

I have been lazy and lax.  Is that redundant?  Yes.  It is.  I will be back in the morrow and will have something or other to say....promise.  I don't know who may be reading but if I were you and saw how little this person ever wrote......I would not be back.  This too will change.  Later Gaters.....thanks for checking in and I will make it worth your while.   (what does that mean anyway?0