Easter weekend.
The last couple of days have been cold. I think the freezing temps started up again on Friday where at some point it even snowed. Saturday morning everything was covered in snow, about an inch (if that). It melted away by noon.
Yesterday we had "dinner" at a friend's house. I write "dinner" because it was scheduled for noon. She called it "dinner" because it was "dinner" type food. There were many yummy dishes such as ham, mashed potatoesk, fried-onion-green bean casserole. So yesterday we learned, from some folks, that calling an afternoon meal "dinner" is quite a Southern thing.
We basically spent the day over there. It was very nice. They live out in a more rural part of B-burg. Their place is very countrystyle. They live on 3 acres, there's a creek (stream?) that goes through their property, there's a railroad really close-by, and there are cows in their neighbor's yard. Her husband has a veggie garden and a chicken coup. He recently had to shoot a possum that got in the chicken coup. He blasted him to smithereens with his shotgun. Okay, not smithereens exactly... but you get the picture. Poor chickens, they needed some rescueing. He says it's his first time ever having to shoot an animal.
It has been very pretty out here, now with spring blooming all around. Not everything is in bloom, but it's enough to give you the spring feeling. On our drive to our friends' house I was reminded of the song "Take me home, country road" by John Denver. It was a winding road with lots of vegetation on the sides of the road. Pretty bushes and trees, some with lavendar colored flowers. We drove through a one lane tunnel where I almost had a heart-attack. ( It was scary because the road was not straight, it curved then there was the tunnel. So you couldn't see that there was a car in the tunnel until you were about to drive through it. So the rule, that was later explained to us, is that we are supposed to honk to announce that we are coming. Actually both cars are supposed to.) Anyhow... it is a country road, just like most songs write about. Alright, enough of my country road musings. It was a pretty day yesterday and, thankfully, today is not as cold.
Yesterday we had "dinner" at a friend's house. I write "dinner" because it was scheduled for noon. She called it "dinner" because it was "dinner" type food. There were many yummy dishes such as ham, mashed potatoesk, fried-onion-green bean casserole. So yesterday we learned, from some folks, that calling an afternoon meal "dinner" is quite a Southern thing.
We basically spent the day over there. It was very nice. They live out in a more rural part of B-burg. Their place is very countrystyle. They live on 3 acres, there's a creek (stream?) that goes through their property, there's a railroad really close-by, and there are cows in their neighbor's yard. Her husband has a veggie garden and a chicken coup. He recently had to shoot a possum that got in the chicken coup. He blasted him to smithereens with his shotgun. Okay, not smithereens exactly... but you get the picture. Poor chickens, they needed some rescueing. He says it's his first time ever having to shoot an animal.
It has been very pretty out here, now with spring blooming all around. Not everything is in bloom, but it's enough to give you the spring feeling. On our drive to our friends' house I was reminded of the song "Take me home, country road" by John Denver. It was a winding road with lots of vegetation on the sides of the road. Pretty bushes and trees, some with lavendar colored flowers. We drove through a one lane tunnel where I almost had a heart-attack. ( It was scary because the road was not straight, it curved then there was the tunnel. So you couldn't see that there was a car in the tunnel until you were about to drive through it. So the rule, that was later explained to us, is that we are supposed to honk to announce that we are coming. Actually both cars are supposed to.) Anyhow... it is a country road, just like most songs write about. Alright, enough of my country road musings. It was a pretty day yesterday and, thankfully, today is not as cold.
posted by kika at 11:31 AM
2 Comments:
We got flurries up here, but nothing accumulated on the ground.
In Burbank two days ago (the 13th) we had a crazy hailstorm. My parents' front yard and back yard were all white with piled-up ice. It was really cool. Probably not related to your cold front though being that I'm a week late... :) And 3000+ miles away. Details details.
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