BLUE

Pansies are some of the first flowers that can be planted in the spring. Their blossoms can handle a spring snow storm and the wind and rain of March. These might actually be purple, but let's call them deep BLUE. We also see more BLUE sky in the spring after the gray of winter. That always helps my spirits!

PLAY

For Lindsay's birthday, I bought tickets to a PLAY - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - at Hale Center Theater. When we go next Saturday, I will post a picture of us there. Lindsay loves music. I think she'll also love the theater in the round and all the fun props, singing and dancing!

STUFF

The stuff I put in this Easter basket (bowl) was a result of a fun annual activity that Marlene and I like to do. We love to dye eggs and just enjoy opening the fridge to see the happy colors and designs we've created. I made enough to take a basket-bowl to most of my visiting teaching sisters. I included a card with the words to an Easter hymn. The word stuff seems sacrilegious when connected to the miracle of the Resurrection and the great gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

 

RELAX

March 30
I was able to relax in the sun at a barbeque for Levi's birthday. What a lovely warm day it was! We just visited, played Mancala and Skipbo, watched Levi put up his new tent, enjoyed good food and great company.

IN THE MIRROR

Ali's driveway is a devil to back out of since there is an angle to it.

If you just look over your shoulder like normal backing you end up in the yard or into the fence. The only way I can do it is to use my side mirror to keep the car lined up with the edge of the driveway.

SOMETHING YOU DID

A friend of mine taught me how to make compost more quickly by chopping your kitchen waste in a blender, then pouring the sludge on soil and mixing it in. I have all the pulp from my juice everyday plus other food waste, so I decided to give it a try in the concrete corner just outside my door. A former neighbor had left a big planter which I adopted for my maiden batch. The garbage mixture had lemon and cilantro, beet and carrot pulp, banana and pineapple skins. It smelled good enough to eat! The soil in the planter was all dried out, so I expected the sludge to soak in and soften it so I could dig in it. But wait! What's that blood on the sidewalk?! Apparently the dry soil simply filtered all the water from the sludge so it could run out the drain hole! Amazingly, beet juice does not stain concrete, but taught me that there is something of a learning curve on this project!

WHAT YOU DO FOR FUN

That's easy! I just go visit G-kids! Reef is so cute, just seeing him makes me smile! He gnaws on my finger (or anybody's really); he's discovered his voice and does a great Scream-on-Demand. It's fun, too, to watch his dad (my son Josh) enjoy playing with him.