The New Uniform is Here!

...and he's ready!



The sweatshirt is a little big on him, but at the rate he is growing, I figure it won't be for long.

Play Ball!!!

Ghirardelli

Dark Chocolate and Caramel...

Does Life even GET any better than this? :D

Natalie

Here is little Natalie on Easter Sunday. She is my Aunt Marlene's 4th great-grandchild, born February 9th. She is just perfect.

Fambly

Here we are for Easter dinner, clockwise, Ian, Aunt Mary, Laureen, Dorinda, Karen, and Bill's elbow. {heavy sigh} Photographer is not going to go on my resume any time soon.

Bowling and Butternut Squash Soup

I had so much fun today with Ian and my Aunt Mary and my cousins, Bill, Dorinda, Karen and Laureen. We bowled.

Well. . . Okay. I'm stretching the truth a bit.

We tried to bowl. Ian beat the pants off more than one of us with his high score of 93. (Yes, that includes me.)

Funny thing...no one was asking us to join their league. :D

After bowling, we went back to Bill and Dorinda's home for Easter lunch. Rin made this outstanding butternut squash soup that was TO DIE FOR. I helped puree the soup with an immersion blender. Every time I go there, I learn something new. This immersion blender is a very cool apparatus. You put the end of it in the pan, and push the button, and it purees, while the stuff is hot! I was very impressed, and I want one. Even if I only use it to make more butternut squash soup, it will be worth it. I think I could probably use it to make applesauce, too, though, so the investment will be worthwhile.

DFoos said...

Does this mean that you've had a change of feelings about cooking? :D

Serena said...
LOL! Let's just say I'm willing to try some things. I'm just not ready to 'run with scissors' where cooking is concerned yet. Of course, things just taste so much better when someone else is doing the cooking. I can't make an omelet taste as good as Bill's. And not for lack of trying! :D

Rainwater

I read this book this evening. It put a lot of messages between the lines about life's lessons and helping your community. Publishers Weekly, quoted by Barnes and Noble, says, "Bestseller Brown (Smash Cut) brings Depression-era Texas to vivid life in this poignant short novel. At the recommendation of Dr. Murdy Kincaid, Ella Barron, a hardworking woman whose husband deserted her, accepts David Rainwater, a relative of the doctor's, as a lodger at the boarding house she runs in the small town of Gilead, Tex. As the local community contends with a government program to shoot livestock and the opposition of racist Conrad Ellis, a greedy meatpacker, to poor families butchering the meat, Ella grows closer to David. Meanwhile, David becomes a special guardian angel to Solly, Ella's nine-year-old autistic son. Dr. Kincaid has gently suggested Ella put Solly in an institution, but she refuses to do so. Brown skillfully charts the progress of Ella and David's quiet romance, while a contemporary frame adds a neat twist to this heartwarming but never cloying historical."

If I am not mistaken, Sandra Brown usually writes romance novels. This particular novel wasn't heavy on the romance, and I enjoyed it.