Hard to believe April is here

 

Time is zipping right along. I’ve got two weeks to figure taxes and that has me a bit frazzled as I’ve never done them before. I bought the H&R Block program that we used in the past, this morning, now comes the fun part.

The weather was beautiful for Easter yesterday. The church service I was invited to was lovely, and a couple of the songs really had me in tears. Dinner afterwards with my friend Julie and her family was great! I didn’t get home until around 4 p.m.

I had fixed my Easter lamb on Thursday in the crockpot.  I smeared mustard on the top, after cutting away most of the fat.  Then sprinkled on granulated garlic (I didn’t have any fresh to cut up and put into slits cut into the meat this time), Then sprinkled on Italian seasoning, and laid on minced fresh rosemary.  I then browned that in a 400 degree oven for about 15 minutes to brown, then into the crockpot it went on a little rack, and when I came home, the place smelled delicious.

After browning for 15 minutes.

After being in the crockpot for around 8 hrs.  It was so tender and delicious. My husband would have enjoyed it done this way.

Here’s my place setting, on the table, I ate in my lap like we always did as we don’t have a table for eating at.

The glass has a blown glass red rooster in the stem.  I think we paid $1 ea for two of these many, many years ago, and we only bring them out at Easter.

The lion and the lamb, is a depiction of how it will be in eternity.

My husband bought two of these tulip plates for my birthday one year, I love them.

The two hearts are made from seashells. We had a lapidary set-up years ago for polishing stones and my husband made these.

Here’s my dinner.

Easter goodies from dinner with my friend and her family. We colored eggs after dinner and an egg hunt. I helped hide plastic eggs with a dollar in each one for all of the kids and their friends (teens-early twenties). That was fun to watch.  Got to bring  our decorated  eggs home with us. I also got some sliced ham too.

Easter blooms here at home.

Hugs and Kisses Hibiskiss

This is in a pot by the caravan, colors of hibiscus and caravan go great together.

These pictures were taken a couple of days earlier.

This is how it starts out.

I love how it looks as it ages too, antique.

I’ve been thinking about the tires on the van now that I am driving it regularly. We didn’t drive the van hardly at all, and the tires might be original and that’s 2001. The van only has 32,??? miles on it.  Anyway, I looked at them the other day and though uh oh, I better check into this.  Then I saw something on yahoo, about how to tell when you need new tires, and I had little cracks in the tires all around, and the tread groove was really shallow. So, this morning I went out with pencil in hand and wrote down the info off the tire, checked SAM’s and they had them online, so I called the store we go to see if they had them they did and they could do it today. So that was my big experience for this morning. I was excited that I did this all by myself.  Mark would be proud of me.

Oh yea, while I was waiting for the tires to be put on, I moseyed around the store and in the book dept. I found a lovely book that just came out and decided to buy it.  I’ve not heard of it, it was just laying there waiting for me to see it. I read the introduction and then placed it gently into my cart. I started reading it while waiting for the tires to be finished and it is another blessing for me at this time. It is so pretty too.

I hope you all had a lovely Easter, and that spring will bring you much delight, and that your gardens will be filled to overflowing.

Give thanks in all things.

FlowerLady