April 9, 2007

  • Monday Check-In

    We had a nice week end. 

    Saturday, the girls and I pitched in together in the morning to clean house and get rooms straightened.  After lunch, we watched the third and last disk of "Anne of Green Gables."  Even Luci followed much of the story.

    I made my new silk floral centerpiece for the dining room table and I'm so pleased with the finished look.  The pastels in the flowers don't look like anything I've picked in the past, but I think it's one of the prettiest floral arrangements I've ever put together.  I had some rose oil and added it to the flowers (like a dab of perfume behind my ears!) and there is a mild fragrance when you walk by the table.  Not an overwhelming, obnoxious blast of ROSE . . .  but refreshingly sweet.

    We went to church Sunday morning.  A good sermon.  We stopped to pick up burgers for lunch and brought them home to eat, since we had leg of lamb planned for dinner.

    Rissy has taken a big interest in cooking - more so lately than ever before.  She really helped Sunday with the dinner.  I taught her how to use a vegetable peeler and she peeled more than a dozen large carrots and cleaned up the peelings from the sink.  Then she washed two bags of a variety of sweet Dutch, red new, and purple creamer mini potatoes.  We started the vegetables early and took them off the heat until we were ready to put dinner on the table several hours later.  She also made the unleavened bread.  I started kneading it, but she put together the ingredients and the final pressing of it into a pie plate and then pricked holes in it with a meat carving fork.  Everything tasted very good and we had store bought butter cookies with blue or yellow frosting for dessert.

    Funny story from Jesse this week end.  He has lost his good helper/friend, Camilo, and has been trying to catch up his lawn business alone.  He used my friend Tangi's son (after school) one day and then found two men to help during the day later in the week.  He drove by to check on the two men and see how they were doing and he found one of them asleep in his truck!  THEN, while mowing a lawn somewhere else later that same day, a man approached him and said (I quote), "Where's your help?  Are you all alone?  I sure need a job.  I've mowed lawns for years . . . Yeah, the last job I had the (bad word inserted) guy didn't ever want to pay me.  I worked  my (more bad words) and couldn't collect.  So I beat the (another bad word) out of him and was arrested . . . Yeah, I go to court for my hearing today.  But, I could go to work for you tomorrow.  Do you have a business card?"  Jesse told him, "No.  Don't have cards and don't need the help.  But, good luck finding a job!"

    We're still here burning wood to keep warm.  This will be a mild week and maybe we've seen the last of frost and snow until the end of the year.  Jesse is almost caught up with lawns and now that this last bout of cold temps has come along, it will slow things down in the growing department for a while, again!  Feast or famine!