My Weekend

[dreamflower]

I wanted to make this post yesterday, but it took me forever to get my pics uploaded!

The DH and I had a great Easter weekend, in spite of my having to work Sat. and Sun. I had short shifts, so I was off after 1:30 both days. Saturday after work, we took a drive to Shawnee, where we found a cool used book store: I replaced my one-volume paperback of LotR, my paperback Tolkien Reader, both of which were falling apart. I also found a paperback edition of CoH, and Tolkien in the Land of Heroes by Anne C. Petty, as well as a nice book on silk ribbon embroidery by Judith Baker Montano. We found the Hancock fabric store, where I picked up some notions that were on sale, and we located a store my husband was interested in, that deals in water features for the yard. We were too late to look around, but plan to go back now that we know it's there. We ate supper at a Boomerang Diner (their chicken-fried steak is to die for!).

Sunday morning it was pouring down rain, so the sunrise service at the church was moved indoors to the sanctuary. It was a brief but moving service, and we got home in plenty of time for me to get ready for work.

When I got off work, the DH and I had a nice relaxing afternoon, watching TV and coloring in coloring books, followed by coloring some Easter eggs. Then we had a supper of ham, green beans cooked with new potatoes, homemade rye bread, a salad made up of stuff from the garden, deviled eggs and strawberry pie for dessert.

I hope everyone else had as nice a weekend as we did!

Pic spam behind the cut:

	Easter wreath The Easter wreath I made this year.
	Straw-hat Easter bunny I made this Easter decoration several years back. The pic looks a bit dark because the bunny is hanging behind the screen on the front porch.
	My Easter basket Here's the basket my DH got for me! He ordered it made for me--it had candy, lotion, a beautiful blank journal, a picture frame, a small photo album, some bath fizzies and other small goodies.
	Easter basket for the DH Here's the Easter basket I made for my hubby. Has some sugar-free candy and several other things I thought he might like, including bubbles. He loves to blow bubbles...
	Easter eggs Here's the Easter eggs the DH and I made. About half of them are left. I made deviled eggs out of half of them.
	Daffodils in bloom The daffodils were in bloom. The bluebird house in the foreground is now occupied.
	The roses on the arbor next to the front porch. These have never been quite so lush as they were the first year, due to their getting damaged by the contractor when our roof was replaced. Still they keep coming back.
	Irises They seem to be blooming one at a time this year.
	Yellow Roses These yellow roses are blooming really well this year.
	Red roses by the kitchen window. These look redder than they are-- they are really more of a pinky-red.
	Some of my potted herbs Left to right: basil, parsley, chives. The chives are now four years old.
	A little tub with herbs Lemon balm, greek oregano and thyme. All of these are two years old.
	More of my herbs this year Sage, mint, rosemary and dill. The sage and mint are also four years old.
	My "cattle trough" garden Front to back: green onions, red lettuce, carrots, radishes, mesclun (baby lettuce). In the background is a bed that's not completely planted. right now has lettuce and cauliflower.
	Another bed This garden bed has potatoes on the left-hand side, and a couple of cabbage plants. I did have some Swiss chard as well, until a towhee attacked it!

Comments

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

These are great photos. The roses are all lovely.

Sounds like a lovely Easter.

I had to work Saturday night from 10pm until 08am on Sunday morning so I know what you mean about having to work the holiday. And I just agreed to cover a shift Memorial Day weekend so a coworker could go to a graduation ceremony. It looks like I am meant to work on holidays.

[dreamflower]

Well, at least I only had to work short shifts! Of course, I'm not making much that way-- but at least we don't depend on my pay for bills, thank goodness!

It really was a nice weekend in spite of me working part of the time.

[piplover.livejournal.com]

What lovely pictures! It sounds like you had a very nice Easter!

[dreamflower]

Thanks! We did, even though I had to work part of the time, it was nice.

[shirebound]

Homemade rye bread and deviled eggs! Strawberry pie! *wants*

Your baskets are so festive, and your yard must be so fragrant.

[dreamflower]

*grin*sends some to you virtually*

It's a nice yard. The roses and bulb flowers were all here when we moved in, so it's really nice to have them there!

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love that you and your hubby spent time on Easter coloring in coloring books! And that he likes to blow bubbles! You kids! *g*

And your garden is coming along so nicely. I have a couple irises in the back garden that I'm sure the rains have beat to pieces but there are still lots of buds to open, and the ones in the front garden, which always come later, haven't sent up bud stalks yet. So right now I'm in a "green lull" where nothing but an azalea is blooming, but I'm always starved for green after winter so that's fine with me. (And boy, these rains will make it REALLY green....)

[dreamflower]

We love to do that kind of thing. When we lived in MS, we'd always take bubble soap with us when we went to the Mardi Gras parades, and blow bubbles at the floats, LOL!

Some of our neighbors have had huge displays of irises, but ours seem determined to dole their blooms out one or two at a time.

We've been SO glad for the rain!

[ellynn-ithilwen.livejournal.com]

You have a nice garden! :)

[dreamflower]

Thank you! We enjoy it very much.

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

What a great weekend! You're the second person I've heard of mentioning Easter gifts between adults. It must be some American thing as it's not at all common here. It's nice though. :)

Lots of lovely flowers and herbs are growing too. :D I do like your garden.

[dreamflower]

It's not super-common here either, although not unheard of-- I know of a few couples who do it. I think it depends more on individual family traditions. Although in this country, you will find more adults who will keep childhood traditions into their adulthood than elsewhere. For example nowadays at Halloween, the adults tend to celebrate as much as the kids do, which was not at all the case when I was growing up.

Like, in our family at Christmas, we always had stockings for the adults as well as the children. Not all families do that either, but it was the tradition in both my family and my husband's.

But there's just the two of us now, and we like "kid stuff". People think it a bit odd that we still color eggs with no kids or grandkids around, but we enjoy it.

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was wondering about that. Spending things on what many consider childish as an adult without kids around to do it for/with is not very common here either. You're a crafts woman, it's only natural that you'd colour your own eggs and not buy them pre-coloured or not made of eggshells at all (like my felt eggs, lol). I think it's nice that you keep your inner child alive and well. :D It keeps you young.

[dreamflower]

Both the DH and I are quite fond of our "inner children", LOL! Either that or we are into our second childhood...*grin*

[pandemonium-213.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear you didn't have to work long shifts. I love the baskets, and the wreath! That's gorgeous!

Mmmm, deviled eggses, we loves them, my preciousss. We snarfed down the same. Thanks to a very nice afternoon, probably the best we've had up here for months, I grilled a boneless leg of lamb for dinner.

Your...roses...are...BLOOMING!? Ack! We're not even close up here in Boston/Zone 6. Your roses are lovely, especically the yellow rose. Which hybrid is it?

The warmer weather has triggered my drive to plan a garden. I just sent a deposit to Tony's Fence for some repairs and also for a new pergola over the front gate. We have a white picket fence around the compact front yard, and it begs for a pergola, which, I'm thinking, should sport a Zephirine Drouhin climbing rose and a Ramona clematis. :^)

[dreamflower]

I have been having a good time with new wreaths for the screen door this year: Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter... I'm currently planning one with a patriotic theme that will work for both Memorial Day and July Fourth...

We had rain the whole day, but it was welcome, as we've been having very worrisome drought conditions.

I'm sorry to say I've no idea what varieties are of the roses, or of the bulb flowers, as all of those were in place when we moved in.

We also planted a new tree this year, in between our flowering pears: a redbud!

Aww...a white picket fence! That's so classic! You should post some pics too, when you get it the way you want it!

[lilybaggins.livejournal.com]

I'm coming to your house next year for Easter! :)