Sunday, March 27th

March this year has been much like a lazy, tired old lion who just lays around growling and occasionally reaching out to take a swipe at something. Hopefull it will get up and move on with the pride now or just die and get it over with so spring can come and stay.

There was a small number of people at church this morning. I do hope the lack of regulars means they were out of town visiting family. Our church went thru a split about a year ago and we lost several members. Most of the new people are young and have families while the ones who left were older people. Jack and I don't really like the music there any more but this morning they did sing some of the older hymns during the Communion part of the service which was a refeshing change from the near rock concert atmostphere they had earlier and usually have. I would probably go elsewhere but Jack won't so I stay. I love the people and the minister is good but some of that music is just too much for me.

We had 128 at the cafe' Friday night and 30 Saturday night. Those numbers keep us moving for the 3-31/2 hour supper time we have.

I think tomorrow I'm going to town to sit for a couple hours with an elderly friend who will be at her daughter's for the day. Her daughter will be in class at the local community college. The woman is way too old for me to call by her first name and she doesn't want me to call her Mrs.----, so I call her Mom. She really is old enough to be my mother and has children older than me. Then her daughter will take her to the eye doctor and take her back to the nursing home where she lives.

I need to find and purchase onion sets and plants this week. I want to get them planted within a couple weeks. Last year I was kind of late getting the onions planted and the harvest almost didn't exist.

I think I'll go put some chicken leg quarters in the oven and bake it. I could live on leg quarters. Jack doesn't care for them that well tho he will eat boneless skinless breasts once in a while. I fixed deep fried shrimp, jalapano poppers & oriental veggies with cheese sauce for lunch. I thawed some cranberry bread left in the freezer from Christmas and we each had a slice of it. A meal like that would cost $8-$10 each at a cafe'. It probably actually cost about $5 total for us to buy and fix. I get things like shrimp thru the cafe' at wholesale prices which helps a lot.

Mary & KathyJo, is lambing season over for the 2 of you? How about calving season Ruth and Kathleen? Anna, I haven't heard you say anything about calving season. Do you space it out thru out the year or do it mostly in one season? I would suspect spacing to keep production up but maybe you need a slow season for a break.

I have some hosta coming up, a few daffs blooming and more with bloom buds and one forsythia in full bloom. Some tulips are up but whether or not they bloom is another matter. There are dozens of Magic Lilies and Daylilies up and growing rapidly. I'm looking forward to a good year of blooms.

GOD bless and keep each and all of you.