Our company yesterday——
Eldest son Wes, with Debra, Jasmine, and Dakota joined us for dinner. ( I must confess I forgot the camera so this picture is from an earlier Easter.) Even though both son and grandson were under the weather they valiantly tried to celebrate also.
We managed a game of Waterworks before dinner and Debra and Dakota won!
Our dinner was ham, homemade white bread, and peach pie. Debra brought carrots, new potatoes, and asparagus with Hollandaise sauce. I had Mini Eclairs for the people not fond of pie. Chips, Combos, and dip were for snacking plus the peanut butter eggs. But a lot of the leftovers have found their way into the freezer for another day.
Debra brought me up a Clematis plant to start in one of my gardens outside as soon as the weather allows.
It will be a woody vine with purple flowers that can grow to seven feet tall she said. So I must choose a place carefully to plant it.
My bay window is filling up now with plants.
When good weather allows it the Holly plant that Darlene and Michael gave me will also be outside.
The bud on my cactus has decided it will blossom soon.
Also my tulips from Edna and Bob have finally showed their pretty faces.
I dug up a new shoot from my Snowball bush for Debra to take home for her yard and have a couple more to move if I want.
The grand kids drove Jay’s new tractor but of course there will be no mowing yet because the ground is too wet.
It was a good visit and a pleasant day.
Spirit tried to help me type up yesterday’s post but I was afraid my IT man would be upset if the key caps were removed!
Wished to tell, after 3 days over Easter of rain and grey skies, Easter Monday dawned blue ky and lovely and by mid morning out came the sun, really warm. Just as well since our local town was celebrating 150 years of the Railway coming through the town, plus our village of Liss, and on up to London. To celebrate this a wonderful, green, steam engine pulling 11 carriages came down from London, called Oliver Cromwell, and thousands of people turned out to greet him, and see himn pulled up to take on water at our town of Petersfield. The local Band played, and classic cars, old bicycles, my younger son’s traction engine, gleaming in the sun, amassed outside the Station, from where, after the train had passed through on it’s way down to our West Country, with loads of people on board, who had paid to travel the day on it, they formed up for a parade, and paraded down through our town, with thousands of happy people massing the pavements in order to watch the parade. Lots of folk in the parade were dressed in Victorian dress, my son and his wife included everyone looked great! It was a great day and the sun shone boldly down, almost too hot, trust us Brits to say!! They paraded to our local Square, where they all parked up for the afternoon for folk to be able to walk around and view them all. Friends and self watched some Morris Men, country dancing, in the streets, before re turning hot and content home to Liss. I gather every station the train passed through, going down South, was packed with people who had turned out to see it rushing through! We were so glad the weather was good for the day, so much organisation involved. All best Marion Liss