Monday Morning April 13th

Well Sunday being Easter Sunday we celebrated with Amy and Family at our house later in the evening but started the day out much the usual with a before 6 roll out for me. I did my usual routines that start with the cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric while I posted this ramble and then some quiet time with my Creator and Lord lifting up several by name. All seem as well as can be expected due to health issues and ages. I got a call into middle sister Pat who is the care giver for her dad my uncle whom we call Paw Paw and at 92 he sounded great, lucid and eager to talk for awhile.

I headed out after checking the news and social medias to hand water the gardens and then harvested some lettuces and kale to clean and made a huge fresh salad. The heat and dry weather is taking its toll on the leafy greens especially the lettuces which are starting to bolt. I do have a few lettuce seedlings I'm transplanting today into the ground in hopes they will mature. Luckily the shallow well keeps everything from burning up but it at least two a day hand waterings. I harvested a few cukes and found one where either a rat or a squirrel ate the middle out; so I'll need to set a rat trap if they come back for another meal, oh well.

We purchased a nice leg of lamb from Winn Dixie and this meat was superb in flavor and texture and we have enough leftover on the bone for a lamb/barley soup this week. The gravy from a lamb roast is the best ever and it covered our smashed taters with such delicate flavor. Broccoli and crusty bread rounded out the main course that started after the round of before the big meal with pickled beets and hard boiled eggs, cheeses, olives as well as sliced cucumbers and a little fruit of the vine. We hid plastic Easter eggs for Sam and Eliza in the back yard and they indulged in their baskets that Nancy had loaded with candy, clothes and toys. Amy brought a delicious homemade apple pie and vanilla ice cream for dessert, wow what a feast we had. Afterwards we played a new game we all could play titled Imagine If; you had to guess what descriptions that were printed on a card fit the person the dice had you to stop at.  It was a hoot and everyone played with a playoff round as several were tied at the end; Nancy guessed right and won.

The Ross Family soon headed out for home and we finally got settled down after putting the house back in order. They are an active loud gang and Amy has her hands full but she and Tyler are doing a great job raising them with reverence to the Lord. Ava has matured into a young lady almost overnight and she is still 12, oh well. Well it wasn't long until I hit the showers and was soon horizontally watching some Nat. Geo and then was out for the count at 10'ish, LATER