Easter was a slow, easy day. It was partly sunny and cold still. After morning chores, I sat down to prep all the starting notes. They go back to 1998 and the older pages are fragile. So I repaired them and added more blank pages for future note taking.
At noon I stopped and looked up recipes for scalloped potatoes. My brother said he’d always used a roux. It had been decades since I’d had scalloped potatoes and I couldn’t remember how they were made.
So I combined a couple recipes I found and created this.
While the batata baked, I prepped the asparagus as that takes quite a while. It would be steamed.
I had gotten a ham slice without all the nastys in it and it was pre-cooked so I just had to heat it up.
I went back to my notes and finished them just in time for my dinner.
I started the asparagus and ham when I took the cover off the casserole and they all finished at the same time. The batata was REALLY good!
After I ate I sat in my chair for a while and watched a video. Then I ate my little chocolate bar for dessert.
I went out just before 7PM to do chores and the sun was just setting. The West of Steps daffodils had opened and glowed in the sunset.
The First Fence garden daffodils had mostly opened too.
I thought the front porch was starting to look pretty with the daffodils on each side.
A branch had blown down on the wildflowers so I decided to go move it. There were actually a lot of them and I ended up down by the forsythias. I had planted 5 forsythias when we put the first Little trees in back in 2020.
These were the first 3 and they are actually starting to become a hedge to block the “mountain” from view.
These are the last 2. There are 2 of the old forsythias with them. By now the sun had nearly set.
The end of a quiet day.
On Monday I have exercise class and my general helper will be here at noon and we have 12 trays of seedlings to start. It will be a busy day, as I have to clean up the kitchen before I leave. Laundry will have to wait until Tuesday.