Howdy Y’all! Home from The Vigil of Easter. Actually been home for a bit but got comfy and had a beerverage. The service was fantastic! Lots of great music and EYP gave the Homily and knocked one out of the ball park. I just know all the other Whiskypalians there were just green with envy cause they don’t get to hear him preach on a regular basis. 
OYKW is already abed and I shall join him shortly. We’s tahrd!
Nitey Nite Y’all!
Home from the shelter. It’s a family shelter that works to transition folks to permanent homes, employment (or better employment) and acts as an intermediary for social services. I think that this will be a regular thing for our group.
Our egg hunt will be indoors tomorrow. The WPTB are calling for stormy weather, so we got a community room at one of the local police precincts.
Got Bessie back together and on the road so of course its going to snow some more the next couple days. :smack:
Got a set of wrenches at Harbor Freight I could have lived without out but with a 25% off coupon good basically just today and tomorrow why should I?
Went to Sams and got some great used meat which I brought home and cooked in the smoker.
Did two loads of top clothes and some general cleaning.
Cut my hair and showered.
I figured I may as well be productive today since I’m working tomorrow.
ruble, used meat? Isn’t that a bit contradictory (not to mention revolting…)
Ended up at Olive Garden and stuffed myself quite well; then watched the Basketball tournament interspersed with MASH reruns and Untold Stories of the E.R. (I can multi-task TV). Bedtime will be soon, I think.
See all y’all tomorrow.
Used meat= short dated meat sold cheap. Nyah, nyah, even the token vegetarian knows that one.
I’m trying to get the motivation up to go to a silly event; a friend’s doing a juggling tour, comprised of shows in strange places. There’s one today, pretty close (in a monkey sanctuary). I should go, I know I’ll enjoy it when I get there, but it means getting dressed approximately like a grownup and interacting with people.
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to work. I had one shift supervisor in the hospital last night, and the other working at a store 60 miles away, so I had to miss the game last night.
red, I am no longer welcome at egg hunts. Apparently, you are not supposed to hunt them with a 12 gauge.:dubious:
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 48 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 80 and N.O.S. for the day. This mornin’ will be major cookage for the big feast at N.O.L. I have ham bakin’ away as I post. This afternoon we shall accompany JDD and Partner to go visit JDD’s mom at the nursin’ home. We shall bring her festive Easter Hershey’s Kisses.[sup]TM[/sup]. That reminds me, tomorrow is a cheap chawklit day! YAY!
Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy requires sustenance. Then I suppose I should purtify and get to the cookin’ of comestibles.
HAPPY EASTER!!!
Happy Sunday Y’all!
Up to start the bread for this afternoon’s Easter dinner.
I’m annoyed at myself because I had intended to make croissants. But I left the notebook with the recipe at the church, and when I realized my error it was too late to pick it up. So I’m doinfg James Beard’s recipe for challah instead. I’ll braid it and give it an egg wash.
But the croissants are special. Can I tell a story?
Thirty five years ago this Easter, on Holy Saturday the night before, my father had a heart attack. He had a back ache, did toe touches to get rid of it and went to bed. Then a while later my mom, an RN, came upstairs to tell me his pain was back and he was sweating profusely. She threw a robe on him, dragged him out the door, and took off for the hospital. She later said she didn’t pay a lot of attention to the stop lights. After all, it was 11:00PM. I stayed behind to call them and let them know he was incoming. I was quite calm and collected because I figured it couldn’t be too bad, he wasn’t acting all dramatic, like in the movies or on TV. Turns out not waiting for an ambulance probably save his life.
In the wee small hours the familiy is all gathered in the waiting room, looking like zombies, myself included. So I decided to perk things up. I went home and grabbed the croissants I’d made(for the first time!) for dinner that day, got plates and jelly and butter and napkins, and brought them back. Eating is a comfort thing and folks enjoyed them.
I’m glad I don’t live in “the good old days” My father’s father had a heart attack in 1935, at the same age my dad was, and he died right away. Now we have angioplasty and clot busting drugs and open heart surgery. There was a code blue pulled on my dad Easter afternoon, and without the drugs and the shocking he might have died. My dad himself lost his dad at the age of seven, and had to grow up without him.
My father, though, was a devout man, and if he had died he said “What would have been a better day to go?” He said all he knew about the code was that "I woke up and a nurse was on top of me beating on my chest and yelling ‘wake up Harold, wake up!’ "
Sorry for such a long post. I hope everyone has a blessed Easter, or at least a wonderful day.
I woke too early, and lay in bed playing games on my tablet till almost 7:30. Critters have been tended to, dishwasher has been emptied and refilled, I’ve showered, ironed a shirt for FCD, and I’ve breakfasted. We’ll be leaving in about an hour.
I think I’ve gathered everything I need to take to my mom’s, including my niece’s shower gift, since I won’t be attending. I even remembered to put the EZpass in my car. Not looking forward to the long drive, but that’s the way it goes.
As to the next long drive - waiting for the call from Orlando. Could come any time. Pacing, pacing, pacing…
Happy Easter!!
Happy Easter!
I’m fixing to purtify to go help get things set up at our indoor venue. Not having it outdoors at the park means that I can’t take Nelson with me as originally planned.
Happy Easter everyone
Happy Easter to all my MUMPER friends. Going to my sister’s for dinner.
Da cave is smellin’ nummy! Folks will be arrivin’ around ten-thirty for the all important pre N.O.L. mimosas.
Happy Easter Sunday!
Happy April Fool’s Day!
Or should it be April Fools’ Day!
There is more than one fool out there!
It’s cloudy and 52 degrees outside.
The dog s being especially bratty this morning.
Nothing special to do today. I could make my mother happy and drive down to the armpit but going twice in three days is more driving than I want to do.
I feel your pain FCM
A blurfy Easter from the heathen of the group. Still, it is a day when families see each other and sit down to good meals, so there is something to be said for it. Enjoy it and make merry!
Two out of three Sudokus’ done and I think I’m close to solving the third and toughest one.
I’m up; well, I’ve been up for a while, but I didn’t go to bed until about midnight…West Coast time! so a later morning is allowed.
Event 1 yesterday was postponed, so that meant I couldn’t make Event 2. Event 3 was cxl’d (on Fri night) - too wet.
Event 4 was we went to see a Lady, & mooning. Event 5 was a secondary photo shoot there, but we got kicked out; why do they close parks for the night? :mad:
Tried it somewhere else, but cops only let us stay for a few mins as they were closing that park, too. 
Need some food @ the groc (I hope they’re open today) lawn dairy, & a (trail?) run.
Not the only heathen; my celebrations will be limited to eating big chocolate aigs. And going to a really weird juggling show*, which was fun, but isn’t really traditional.
Happy Easter to those who celebrate it!
*Actual performer was good, but the kids sitting in the front row definitely stole the show. What kind of weird kid, in response to being asked ‘What things do jugglers juggle with?’ answers ‘Have you ever touched a cactus?’ Best non-sequitur ever 
:dubious: 
Nut glad you went to the show. I was hoping the monkeys would steal the show. I guess one did.
We ended up celebrating my parents’ 55th wedding anniversary on Friday, with a few Easter things thrown in for the kids. Yesterday we flew home from CA. Today we’re not celebrating. We may see a movie or not.
Happy Easter to those celebrating!
Well, got back from my Easter meatloaf dinner (Logan’s Roadhouse; wasn’t bad but not their best effort) to find one of my credit cards had been hacked. There was a charge for a bus ticket in Italy and a $25 donation to the Eternal Word Television Network, neither of which I’m likely to have any use for. All praises to capital One, who caught it, informed me on-line, made the reporting and locking of the card easy to do and will send me a new one this week while transferring my balance to the ‘new’ account already. That’s pretty damn efficient, IMHO.
And that’s all the excitement I can bear today; we see what next week brings.
OK, today is supposed to be spring, isn’t it?
So tell me why there is light snow on the ground, and there’s sleet coming down?
The dog is definitely not going to like this tonight, when I have to walk him. Heck, I’m not going to like it later this afternoon when I have to drive to my sister’s house for dinner!