Happy Easter

 Today has been filled and we were busy. Our grand-son-in-law is converting from Mormon to Roman Catholic and was baptized last night during the Easter Vigil! This morning he had a shift on line ... picketing! He works at Lake City where they make bullets etc and his Union has gone on strike.

But he and our grand daughter made it to our Easter get together! Our grandson had to work a 9 hour shift so he wasn't there. ( His Mother - my daughter - did put together a plate full of food to be reheated when he gets home).

We all enjoyed the white hot dogs from Rochester's Schweigle, lots of deviled eggs, baked beans, carrot salad, potato salad and Easter candy!! Not much for left overs!! Bob did the  grilling !

After eating we sat outside on the deck... our daughter has an app on her phone for recognizing birds through their songs... so we had robins, blue jays, hawks, vultures... and more. 

Bob and I put the deck cushions away since the weatherman is talking rain or snow tomorrow night! Yuck!! But a sign of spring... the local vegetable farmer person mentioned on FaceBook that he has asparagus.. $3.00/lb. Will call tomorrow and find out if he has some!! Love really fresh veggies!

Birthday

 Today I reached 81... oh well... could be worse!!

We went to our Price Chopper to pick up the last few things for tomorrow. Bob went to Ace next door for Terro ( we had ants yesterday). We went early thinking things would be crowded. It wasn't!

Later... my younger daughter and her family stopped by.... birthday card, home made English muffins and home grown yellow grape tomatoes and a resin window hanging. Independence was having its 1st  Saturday of the month farmer's market ...I don't need stuff so this was great. The tomatoes are to die for...hot house grown.

We all sat around and talked... Our grandson works today and tomorrow so won't be able to come for Easter.. I'll make sure he gets some stuff. I think he is eager to try the white hots I ordered from Rochester, NY.

Boiled eggs and peeled them... will devil them tomorrow... think we are all set for tomorrow

Costco trip

 One of my hearing aids doesn't seem to be working. I replaced the battery with two new ones.. still a problem. I bought them through Costco, so called the hearing center and have an appointment for 4 this afternoon. It won't surprise me if it's "broken" because they are over 4 years old...

Made it to Costco for my appointment. Boy was it crowded! I'm glad we weren't going to need the check out aisles! The hearing aid person decided that the problem was wax and cleaned the unit. It seems  fine but he told me to call if it didn't continue to work!

Afterwards we were blocked into  our parking spot... cars waiting to find a spot to park in were lined up behind us! 

I expect tomorrow will be just as bad! 

 

 

cool wet gray day

 I woke today to a cold wet gray day... the kind of day that vegging out seems to cry for.

So I started with reading and working on another bear! I even spent some time on MNSNow... We haven't been watching must TV news lately... too upsetting.

Our daughter is having trouble with her washing machine... something to do with the tub's balance so Bob is off to see what needs to be done. They both watched a UTube video and think it won't be too bad to fix.

He fixed it... found the tub had shifted when the machine was moved. After he moved it to where the tub belonged... it worked. They ran two loads just to be sure!! 

 

Rain... cooler..foggy

It rained last night... not a lot but things were wet. It was also cooler and later in the day it became foggy. Supposedly we will have more tomorrow.

I went grocery  shopping and Bob tagged along. I think I have everything for Sunday's get together. 

The off to the library to pick up Bob's "hold" items... when we got home Bob settled down with our taxes... again... It would help if things didn't change annually. I puttered around.. 

Dinner was another new recipe... ground chicken burgers with spinach and feta. They were great!! Green salad on the side...

 

warm house

When I got up this morning the thermometer read 79F... no heat ...no nothing... just from the heat outside yesterday! It looks like today will be just as hot until the "storms" move in. The rest of this week will not be great!!

This area needs the rain. We have gotten  grass fire warnings ! And I see way too many building fires ( houses and strip malls) on Facebook. Not just little fires... whole structures gone!

Today was busy... laundry... washing floors and so on... 

 

Getting ready

 Today is going to get quite warm... 85F or so. So I went out on the deck to finish up getting ready for our Easter get together. Nagged Bob into checking on the grill which is  sort of below the deck. He's currently changing  clothes... hosing down the grill and checking the tanks left him WET. We have one completely full tank and one partial...plenty for all the "white hots" we are planning to grill.

We are supposed to get at least two days of rain this week... no deck chair cushions on till Saturday!!  Bob and I discussed the menu and I am just about set! 

Put my box of short pile mohair out into the mailbox... with its USPS label.. headed off to California to a bear maker who is still making small(very small) bears!! Sad to see it go but I know I will never be using it.

 Made a batch of scones... will have to rethink some of the directions but they came out tasting great. Bob snarfed one down right away...