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I have to make my own Spring since ours has seemed to have vanished.  What is up with the weather??  It is cold and rainy here.  On Sunday we had hail of biblical proportions.

Kelly stopped by the other day and brought me a sweet little wicker chair.  She also gave me the tin and I promptly plopped a minature rose in it.  I'll eventually plant it outside but I like it in the tin for now.

Let's see – what has been going on around here?  We've been making plans to redo our deck (all gazillion square feet of it) and some landscaping work.  As soon as it is underway I'll post about it.  Our deck is about to fall off.  Well it's actually only about two feet off the ground but it is rapidly declining. 

Since we are basically going with the exact same layout and size I'm not overly excited about it.  Yes, nice to get it done but visually it won't look much different.  The landscaping, on the other hand, I am excited about.

We have a sloped circle in the middle of our driveway.  We are going to have a natural rock retaining wall put in on the lower end so we can make it level.  Then we will put in a crab apple tree in the center and other flowering shrubs around the tree.  I think it will look quite nice when you drive up.  And I love flowering crab apple trees. 

We are having a bit of drama with Ina.  We thought she was egg-bound, which is dire.  But now we are wondering if she isn't just broody.  She won't leave her nesting box voluntarily and when have made her she just walks around all poofed up. 

We checked and there doesn't seem to be an egg stuck up there (I'll just leave that particular process up to your imagination….). We decided to separate her from the others and when we picked her up out of the nesting box there were three eggs under her. 

Hopefully she'll snap out of it. 

 

 

Quick post – last night the guys took care of dinner in honor of Mother's Day but I brought a platter of anti-pasta skewers.  Super simple and very well received. 

I bought marinated mushrooms, little mozzerrella balls (which I also marinated in bottled Italian dressing), kalamata and green olives, cherry tomatoes, salami and I made cheese and sun-dried tomato tortellinis and marinated them in the same dressing. 

I made a few without salami for the vegetarians. 

I can't take credit for coming up with the idea.  I saw it somewhere out in the interwebs and filed the idea away.  Pretty darn clever if you ask me.