We had our Ladies Night Out. Supper at a Mexican restaurant and then cheesecake, talk and Apples-to-Apples at our house. Several of the ladies even stayed until about 2:30. We sat around the table and talked about … things and life. Kind of heavy topics. At least it was that night.

The cheesecake was delicious! Lois made the top one and called it “Living Will” meaning you should probably have yours made before you eat it. It was quite rich.

Mama made the plain one. She is famous around this area for her gourmet cheesecakes. Every Christmas she has orders for 20-30 for Troyers Fencing who gives them to their customers and contractors. One year they skipped and got lots of inquiries… “where is our cheesecake?”

Talking Tupperware

Apples to Apples

 

 

 

It’s been two weeks since the last post and I’m not sure where to start other than at the beginning. ha ha

Six of us ladies went to FL on a short weekend trip. We stayed in St. Augustine but went down to Orlando for Saturday, joining many other throngs of tourists at

Yup. It was Epcot. Lois was the only one out of our group who had been there before. When we left were drrrenched and I mean drrrrenched but it was well worth the soaking. It actually could’ve been downright hot had it not been for the showers. I didn’t get many pictures since I opted to not take my camera and I was glad later I hadn’t. I did get a few with Lois’ camera. Sadly we didn’t manage to get a group picture since Sunday when we were dressed for church it started raining again. We didn’t get to see much of St. Augustine because of the rain. We attended a Methodist church, which was having communion that Sunday. It was interesting to attend. Lots of readings and response readings and up and down in our seats. That last sentence probably doesn’t make sense but I don’t feel like re-wording it right now.

We stayed at a resort at the World Golf Village. Due to rain and thunderstorms in the evenings, and being gone in the day, we got to enjoy these pools exactly 10 minutes. Notice all the water standing in the sand v-ball court in the right, center of the picture.

Ah, yes. There were golfing options.

LtoR: Lois, Katie, Myra, Ruth (visiting from IN) and Laurie. Becky was going to come along as well but then had to work.

We ate a yummy manicotti supper at the condo. Since the Epcot tickets were so expensive, we decided to save $ by taking most of our food along.

 

There were beautiful gardens at Epcot and many lovely sights but like I said I didn’t take many pictures. I did think, though, that you needed to see my shoes. I had kind of the same dilemma as Christy and I finally found this pair that could be worn without socks (socks make my feet terribly hot). I can’t do flip-flops but these fit the bill. I thought they looked funny when I bought them and I showed them to Lois, thinking she would howl with laughter, but she thought they looked like me. Yikes! They still crack me up.

Some of you may remember that I had a bad spider bite lat fall, well, since then I’ve had several other sores that have been infected, not bites actually but some kind of infection. Lois was concerned that it might be MRSA (google it if you wish) and then last week when I got another infection, this time on my calf, and felt quite sick from it, she got my dr. to prescribe a culture. I went to OB last week when she was working and she did the culture. They processed it at the hospital and Monday the dr. called and said it was not MRSA (PTL!!) but it was a staph infection. We’re still puzzled as to why I’ve been getting them but at least we know it’s not too serious. If/when I get another one hopefully we change to another antibiotic and get rid of it for good.

I felt much, much better after being on antibiotics for 24 hours, which was a good thing. Lois and I were in charge of the food stand Saturday at our first basket ball tournament, a fundraiser for the school. We had grilled chicken sandwiches and hamburgers, chips, cookies, bars, etc. drinks, etc. It went well and they were very pleased with the amount that was raised. There was also a church bakesale the same day so everyone was involved somewhere.

Here are a few pictures from the tournament.

The action:

The enthusiastic crowd:

 

The food stand:

The 3-point contest:

The tournament winners:

Second place:

On a different note, is anyone else having problems with their xanga subs? I got 2 daily digest emails in the last 2 weeks, and then this am, there were 6 in my inbox. Strange.

   Yeah, I’ve got a lot to say so ‘scuse the real newsy post. Dogwood festival last weekend, relaxing time (after the bake sale) with family for Phil’s birthday, lots of great meat grilled by my brothers, goofy neighbors over for supper (where, o where, are the pictures of that picturesque bunch?) Tuesday night, lunch with Sharon and Linda today. Oh, yeah, and I’m getting ready to go to St. Augustine/Orlando with the single ladies/youth girls from here in honor of Myra, our teacher.

A few pictures to finish off this really long post. Hope you haven’t gotten tired of reading yet.

I’ve been waiting for a foggy morning so I could get these oak trees and fenceline.

 

 
Still can’t leave the dogwoods alone.

 

I got this chest of drawers for a song. There was only one small problem

 

 

 

 

 

 

 There was one small piece broken off. On the first picture it’s being held by gum . Just need a little gorilla glue to patch it up for real.

 

 

Later friends

 

 

  Lovely weekend, it was. Mine was shorter than Lois and her friend’s Beat and Hilda, though. They galivanted around for 5 days straight, using our place for a landing pad at night. I did go with them to Savannah on Saturday. Since you already know that spring is in full bloom here, it is probably pointless to tell you that Savannah was beautiful, and that the weather was beyond perfect.

I forgot to take my extra battery along for my camera so I didn’t get as many pictures as I could’ve.

We had full intentions of eating at Lady and Sons (Paula Deen) but they were booked full. Lesson learned: if you want to eat there for Saturday lunch, then you probably have to get in line by 8 or 9 in the morning. We were there by 11:15 and the only reservations left to take were for 8:45 that night. So we gave up hopes of that but were directed to another southern buffet taking place at The Pirates House. Great food although I don’t know how it compares to Lady & Sons since I’ve never yet been there.

I didn’t get a picture of all four of us so here are a few at the restaurant. They know I have a xanga site and that the possibility of showing up on here was pretty high so unless I get sued, here are the pictures:

Hilda, practising posing for portraits (not really)

Beat, getting a grip on her sweet tea

 
Lois, regaling us with stories from her Thai trip.

Southern comfort food, L to R starting at the bottom: BBQ pulled pork, macaroni pie, collard greens, chicken pot pie, sweet potato souffle.

 
Sweet tea good enough to make you cry

An “painted” version of the sweet tea.

We took a leisurely stroll along River Street.

Georgia on My Mind

This trumpet player kept everyone quite entertained!! Unsuspecting people would walk past him and he would play a short tune to them.

Curly, red-hired lady: Tomorrow for Lil Orphan Annie
A rainbow tied-died shirt: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Young Couple holding hands: Here Comes the Bride
Lady in pink shirt: Pink Panther Theme

Most people would be nearly passed him before they realized they were the center of attention. It was pretty funny seeing their reaction!

We did a little bit of shopping. You can’t forget the candy stores there:

Doesn’t it want to make you cry, seeing all those perfectly good calories sitting there, as you walk coldly past them, leaving them sit on the shelf.

More perfectly good calories.

Last, but certainly not least, pecan pralines that are too delicious for words.

On to Forsyth Park… continued the photo session there with Hilda and Beat. There were at least 2 weddings getting ready to take place. We had passed one square where a wedding was happening, and they had 13 couples in their bridal party.

I wish I could say I got this stunning picture of the fountain, but alas there were always lots of people around and by the time the area cleared out a little, my battery died. So, an old b&w version:

Gorgeous Easter Lilies:

Painted versions

 
Photo version (sounds kind of funny.. a photo version of a photo  )

Alas, even pretty days must come to an end. And fun weekends also have an end. But there’s always more to look forward to.

Our Easter program went well Sunday night in spite of having only 2 practices. It was so much fun singing again!!! Calvary’s Love was my favorite.

Calvary’s Love, Calvary’s love
Priceless gift Christ makes us worth of;
The deepest sin can’t rise above
Calvary’s Love.

 

Hope you all had a blessed Easter!

 up all around us. Lots of beautiful flowering going on right now. Bradford pear treas, azaleas, dogwood, wysteria and other budding trees and nameless (to me) bushes.

For your viewing pleasure

 

Daffo-different

Seems to me this one should be named “confetti” or “streamers”

 This little fellow seemed to be smiling smugly in the Schrock’s back yard.

 

May your day be sunny and bright and filled with God’s beauty!!!