🙂 Another successful, safe, fun trip to visit our daughter and two grandsons in TN. It is always fun and informative to see grandchildren in their world. It is good to meet some of their friends or the other people in their lives. I especially like the one who told my grandson that grandmothers are very special: “That is why their name starts with ‘grand.’ 😀
😦 Bad cold the last week of vacation and the first week home. This is a doozy and made the trip home painful. I can see the end, though, I think.
🙂 We arrived when the daffodils were just starting to bloom. We have been there before at this time of the year, but this was a first to see the tulip trees and Bradford pear trees. The beauty was breathtaking. Not good for allergies, however. There is just so much beauty all across this country.
🙂 It looks like we have an early spring when the South has a late spring. I watched for daffodils in mid- to late February through early March when I lived in Nashville. (I started watching on Valentine’s Day, since about half the time it was within a week of then, sometimes before then.)
🙂 We have crocuses and daffodils, and I’ve seen a tree or two in blossom.
😦 We woke up to a bit of frost, hopefully not enough to set them back.
🙂 I get to cook beef for two appreciative men (and three women) tonight.
(That’s better than 😦 I have to make a big meal today when I have a lot of other things I have to do!)
🙂 I love the way you can go to google, type in “rump roast,” look at a bunch of different recipes, see what they all have in common and how they differ, choose a favorite, and then if it works save it for another use. (Yes, I’ve made rump roasts before.)
🙂 It’s spring, and it’s only March!
🙂 Did I mention yet that we have spring–and in March, not April or even early May?!
🙂 So far our count of birds that have clearly paired off and are looking for nesting sites (or have already nested) includes bluebirds, chickadees, and robins. I’ve also seen house sparrows, song sparrows, and titmice that seem to be looking for nesting materials, and possibly a cardinal that has established his territory. (We’re in a cardinal’s territory every year, and bluebirds pick our yard every year too.)
Kathaleena, my favorites in spring are when the redbud and dogwood are both in blossom, then a little later when the azaleas bloom. (Unfortunately most of the azaleas in Nashville were killed by a spring freeze several years ago, and the city never looked the same again in spring while I lived there! Hopefully a lot of them have been replanted by now.) And then in summer, the mimosa are gorgeous, though they are invasive and I refused to let any survive in my yard. But when dogwoods are in bloom with several different shades around the neighborhood (some pinks, some whites, some that are more green than white), it’s really beautiful, and I loved that week or two in Nashville. Since redbud bloom at the exact same time (though they stay in bloom longer), it’s really lovely.
It was in the fifties, overcast with a few sections of drizzle, but no serious rain.
Ideal driving weather for going west in the afternoon.
So, the sun was not a problem.
🙂
🙂 Just had a Skype call with my youngest. Oh, actually we were on facetime which has a much better video. Fun to hear the plans for this baby and she wanted to hear all about my labors, so I told her the story of her birth. She is expecting her first and my tenth grandchild.
Chas, here it got into the seventies, and didn’t rain till evening (but then we had lightning and we’ve had some steady rain most of the evening). But seventies on Easter Sunday in March in the Midwest? Unheard of!
The daffodils are everywhere, the tulip trees have blooms that are just short of being open, and one can see green on many trees. And the birds are pairing up. We’re supposed to get some sub-freezing weather still, though we dearly hope it doesn’t get too bad. But so far this is really and truly spring, the first time I have seen it in March in the Midwest! (I’ve been here through close to twenty springs–I counted and this is my 19th March–so I think it’s fair to call this extraordinary and a true blessing.) Just don’t call it global warming–I think it was two years ago we had snow on the ground every day from January 1 to April 1, and the most snow in about 30 years. So basically I’ve seen two extremes, and I like this one a lot better! We didn’t get much snow this winter and we had some really cold days but not a great number of them, so it seems unlikely that the weather will change enough to plunge us back into actual wintry days, though getting some upper twenties and lower thirties wouldn’t be unexpected, and even a dusting of snow. But since things are blooming, it wouldn’t be good to have a hard freeze. (My next-door neighbor hasn’t had enough apples to make cider for a couple of years now and we’re about out of our stock of it from the freezer. It would be nice if he would have a good year this year and not have trees freezing!)
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🙂 Another successful, safe, fun trip to visit our daughter and two grandsons in TN. It is always fun and informative to see grandchildren in their world. It is good to meet some of their friends or the other people in their lives. I especially like the one who told my grandson that grandmothers are very special: “That is why their name starts with ‘grand.’ 😀
😦 Bad cold the last week of vacation and the first week home. This is a doozy and made the trip home painful. I can see the end, though, I think.
🙂 We arrived when the daffodils were just starting to bloom. We have been there before at this time of the year, but this was a first to see the tulip trees and Bradford pear trees. The beauty was breathtaking. Not good for allergies, however. There is just so much beauty all across this country.
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🙂 It looks like we have an early spring when the South has a late spring. I watched for daffodils in mid- to late February through early March when I lived in Nashville. (I started watching on Valentine’s Day, since about half the time it was within a week of then, sometimes before then.)
🙂 We have crocuses and daffodils, and I’ve seen a tree or two in blossom.
😦 We woke up to a bit of frost, hopefully not enough to set them back.
🙂 I get to cook beef for two appreciative men (and three women) tonight.
(That’s better than 😦 I have to make a big meal today when I have a lot of other things I have to do!)
🙂 I love the way you can go to google, type in “rump roast,” look at a bunch of different recipes, see what they all have in common and how they differ, choose a favorite, and then if it works save it for another use. (Yes, I’ve made rump roasts before.)
🙂 It’s spring, and it’s only March!
🙂 Did I mention yet that we have spring–and in March, not April or even early May?!
🙂 So far our count of birds that have clearly paired off and are looking for nesting sites (or have already nested) includes bluebirds, chickadees, and robins. I’ve also seen house sparrows, song sparrows, and titmice that seem to be looking for nesting materials, and possibly a cardinal that has established his territory. (We’re in a cardinal’s territory every year, and bluebirds pick our yard every year too.)
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Kathaleena, my favorites in spring are when the redbud and dogwood are both in blossom, then a little later when the azaleas bloom. (Unfortunately most of the azaleas in Nashville were killed by a spring freeze several years ago, and the city never looked the same again in spring while I lived there! Hopefully a lot of them have been replanted by now.) And then in summer, the mimosa are gorgeous, though they are invasive and I refused to let any survive in my yard. But when dogwoods are in bloom with several different shades around the neighborhood (some pinks, some whites, some that are more green than white), it’s really beautiful, and I loved that week or two in Nashville. Since redbud bloom at the exact same time (though they stay in bloom longer), it’s really lovely.
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It was in the fifties, overcast with a few sections of drizzle, but no serious rain.
Ideal driving weather for going west in the afternoon.
So, the sun was not a problem.
🙂
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🙂 Just had a Skype call with my youngest. Oh, actually we were on facetime which has a much better video. Fun to hear the plans for this baby and she wanted to hear all about my labors, so I told her the story of her birth. She is expecting her first and my tenth grandchild.
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🙂 good afternoon and Easter dinner with the cousins and an aunt of theirs visiting from Alaska. Fog is rolling in tonight
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Chas, here it got into the seventies, and didn’t rain till evening (but then we had lightning and we’ve had some steady rain most of the evening). But seventies on Easter Sunday in March in the Midwest? Unheard of!
The daffodils are everywhere, the tulip trees have blooms that are just short of being open, and one can see green on many trees. And the birds are pairing up. We’re supposed to get some sub-freezing weather still, though we dearly hope it doesn’t get too bad. But so far this is really and truly spring, the first time I have seen it in March in the Midwest! (I’ve been here through close to twenty springs–I counted and this is my 19th March–so I think it’s fair to call this extraordinary and a true blessing.) Just don’t call it global warming–I think it was two years ago we had snow on the ground every day from January 1 to April 1, and the most snow in about 30 years. So basically I’ve seen two extremes, and I like this one a lot better! We didn’t get much snow this winter and we had some really cold days but not a great number of them, so it seems unlikely that the weather will change enough to plunge us back into actual wintry days, though getting some upper twenties and lower thirties wouldn’t be unexpected, and even a dusting of snow. But since things are blooming, it wouldn’t be good to have a hard freeze. (My next-door neighbor hasn’t had enough apples to make cider for a couple of years now and we’re about out of our stock of it from the freezer. It would be nice if he would have a good year this year and not have trees freezing!)
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🙂 Spending time with family
😦 Missing those who couldn’t be here
😦 Very disappointing service this morning
🙂 At the very end of the service we all sang “Christ Arose” and “Christ the Lord is Risen Today” thankfully
🙂 Fun afternoon eating and playing games with family
🙂 I get to go shopping with my sister tomorrow!
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