Green Already

Remember back in March when we burned the CRP ground at Bill's Mom's?   It took only around two weeks to grow back nice and green!

We have been waiting for nine days for the fields to be dry enough to work again after getting about 2 1/4" inches total of rain and cold weather.  Finally yesterday we were able to get started again after planting about 500 acres of corn before that rain.  Bill hopes to be able to get back to planting today.

I'm waiting this morning for my work orders. 

Here we go!

The weather is good so all of a sudden the past couple of days the tractors and planters are going and things are hoppin'!  It's fun to be back out there!

We have friends visiting for a couple of days staying at Peggy's.  John has been wanting to drive the quad trac so he did my job and I made lunch for everybody yesterday.  Then Peggy, Mary Jeanne and I made cards all afternoon!  I now have 16 cards for various occasions ready to mail!  

We copied these ideas from cards I found on Pinterest.  I don't enjoy designing - I just like to make them.  Mary Jeanne's family is Irish so she really liked this card I had made so she made herself a sample.

We had a field cultivator break down so parts are being picked up and the guys will get them installed.  In the meantime, I'm catching up our laundry, etc.

My favorite flowers are daffodils and I want to have LOTS of them here around our house, but I'm having trouble getting them going.  I had only 3 blooms in one spot.  Last Fall I planted a few more trying another location and yesterday saw that 2 of them are blooming.  Will plant more this Fall!

I've mentioned several times that I love Our Iowa magazine.  There is a column called From the Mouths . . . - always funny things that kids say.  Here's a couple good ones:

We were attending the funeral of an aunt who had lived a long, fulfilling life.  As the minister began, our 3 year old grandson stood up in the front pew and asked, "What's in the box?"  At that moment, the solemn service became a celebration of life.  (hahaha!!)

While watching her dad grilling the meat for dinner, our 7 year old granddaughter exclaimed, "I love my steaks.  I could never be a veterinarian."
 

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The list of stamps and accessories that are retiring comes out April 21st.  Things like the 2013-2015 In Colors (card stock, ink refills, etc.) will sell out that day within a couple of hours so it's best to order those before the 21st.  Other retiring products will be "while supplies last".  

The new catalog will be out before we know it!

Happy Easter!

It's been a nice weather weekend for Easter in Iowa this year.  Fri. night I got to keep Camry overnight.  Took her to the Lions Club Easter Egg Hunt here in our town Sat. morning.  She found one egg with a dollar bill and 4 quarters in it so was very happy with that and thought it was fun.  I hid some eggs at our house and she looked for them, and then we hid them again for Lacey to find them later.

Camry is the one shielding her eyes

 I took Camry home and picked up Lacey.  She and I made colored deviled eggs, sweet potato casserole and a French Silk Pie to take to Peggy's for Easter dinner today.  Lacey is a very good helper, and I'm so happy that she likes to cook and bake!  

She likes to pretend that we have food orders to make or that we're on a TV cooking show which is good because I can really explain what we're doing and why (and she's listening and learning).  Things like keeping your work area cleaned up as you go. 

These pretty eggs are so easy and fun to make.  Just put 1 tsp. vinegar and about 3 drops of food coloring in a glass of cold water and put your whites in until they're the color you want them.

Today after church, we were at Peggy's for Easter dinner with Bill's sister Karen and her family and Dave's dad came along.  We had ham, sweet potato casserole, grape salad, macaroni salad, jello, mashed potatoes, deviled eggs, spaghetti corn casserole, rolls, pumpkin pie and French silk pie.  Everything was delish. 

Karen brings a dozen plus boiled eggs for each of the kids to dye - it's tradition.   I'm glad to get to watch them since we don't have kids to do it with.

Ryanne LOVES pumpkin pie!

 It was a very nice weekend.