Easter Gift

Is there a special someone in your life

that is hard to buy for?

A person who has everything?

Well, with Easter right around the corner,

I found the perfect gift for that oh-so-hard 

to buy for person.

 

Wait for it.........

Via

 

That's right -

it's a bacon egg.

 

This particular egg happens to be filled with

sausage and black pudding, but I imagine you

could fill it with real eggs and sausage,

or anything you like really.

 

So what do you think?

Would you be willing to try it?

I volunteer (raises both hands enthusiastically!)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Chris Evans as Captain America - AWWW YAAA!

 

The hubs and I saw Captain America:  Winter Soldier this weekend.

Let me just say -

it was amazing.

The fight scenes had me on the edge of my seat -

I can't believe people can actually move like that.

The ending had a twist that I wasn't expecting,

and I love that!

The entire movie was just right up my alley.

 

Don't you just love it when you spend

good money on a movie and you end up enjoying it?

It doesn't happen very often for me.

 

Have you seen any good movies lately?

Any suggestions?

 

 

Friday - Aw Yeah!

Via

 

I had to post this because I'm still

doing dumb Weight Watchers,

and it is the weekend before Easter.

 

I don't have any fabulous weekend plans.

In fact I probably won't do jack.

 

Here's hoping you don't have jack to do also.

(Does that sentence have a dangling participle?)

XO

B

 

Birthdays

When the kids were visiting for Spring Break,

the family decided to get together to celebrate some birthdays.

Austin and Bret were the birthday boys.

 

It's so special when we can get together as a family.

Everyone is so busy with their own lives

that it doesn't happen very often these days.

 

Dennis hosted the party, and Anne cooked.

I made the Pistachio dessert, and Austin

had this as his cake.

Anne made Bret Strawberry Pie.

Anne is a great cook,

but as usual...I blew it and didn't get pictures of the food.

I can't help it if I'm too busy eating!

After the cake and presents,

Dennis shared some photos of his time in Vietnam.

As you can tell, everyone was enthralled with the photos.

 

We all had a great time as usual.

Thanks again, Anne and Dennis, for letting us invade your space.

Getting Our Garden Going

Todd and I didn't exactly relax this weekend.

With the beautiful weather, it was much too

nice to stay inside and sleep.

We ended up going to Eisley's Nursery...

one of my favorite places.

We picked up fruits/veggies for our little garden.

We got a filled up a flat with all our goodies.

The boxes had to be prepped,

and we had to decide where things were

going to be planted.

First we had to empty the dirt out of

the boxes and "till it".

And I use the term "till"  loosely.

I actually dumped the dirt in the barrel,

and then took a tool and broke it apart.

Todd arranged the plants in an order, that we hope,

will allow the plants to thrive.

We got a few tomato plants

(Black Krim, Yellow Pear and Early Girl are some we picked up).

I bought green, yellow, red, and purple bell peppers,

along with peperoncinis.

We also picked up some crook neck yellow squash,

zucchini, cucumbers and sweet peas.

So there are some repeat plants,

but we decided to try out a few new ones as well.

Anyways, while I played with dirt,

Todd prepared the boxes.

 

We worked our little fingers to the bone

for about 3 hours.

Sindy tried to help,

 

but she found supervising much more appealing.

 

 

After everyone's hard work,

this was the final result.

We decided to line the boxes up differently

this time, making it easier to access both sides.

Last year we had total access to the font

of the boxes, but couldn't get to the

back of them because they were placed

up against the rock wall.

 

We got our hands dirty,

and our backs hurt after lifting all

the boxes up and moving them around,

but it will totally be worth the little bit

of hassle once we taste the

fresh fruits and veggies.



McWine Please

 

I'll have a McWine with a McRum chaser.

It was a busy, busy week and I'm exhausted.

I'm supposed to finish painting the hallway,

do my chores, and get brakes for my car,

but I'll be lucky to get out of bed

before 2 PM this weekend.

 

Hopefully you have a relaxing weekend

planned, and can enjoy some nice weather.

 

XO

B

Painting the Hallway, Again!

So I painted the hallway about a year ago.

It was an off white color, and it was looking grimy,

so I decided to paint it a dark color hoping

dirt wouldn't be so noticeable.

I chose an olive color because it complemented

the mocha color that is in our kitchen.

Kitchen (mocha) color on the left,

 hallway (olive) color on right.

 

I loved the color -

originally.

But the longer I lived with it,

the more I started to dislike it.

It made the already dark hallway

darker and gloomier.

 

Let me just say here that I can be a little indecisive.

Or maybe I'm too decisive and don't

think through things completely.

No, I think I'm indecisive.

So the more I thought about the hallway,

the more I realized I needed to repaint

it a lighter color.

 

 

See - dark hallway even with the light on.

And yes, we do have a boob light on our ceiling.

Don't judge!

 

So I picked out a lighter color to paint the hallway.

But first I had to TSP it (clean it).

I did that last weekend, so this weekend

I was able to paint a first coat.

 

Now it may look white in this picture,

but it is a tan color in real life.

So basically, it's almost the exact same

color that I had started off with.

 

This shows you all three colors together.

 

I haven't finished painting the hallway

because there was too much moisture in

the air this weekend, and the paint

 didn't want to dry.

I plan on finishing up the paint job in the next

couple of weekends, and I'll post pictures

of the finished hallway at that time.

 

So have you done any projects lately

that you can't stand and need to fix?

Please don't tell me I'm the only one.