There has been a lot going on lately around our farm. I’ve been making quite a bit of candy for Easter and it’s been really fun doing it. I think I need to find some different recipes so I can make some new kinds. This past week I’ve made seven platters or baskets. and I’ve been thinking that I might need a website for the different types of candy that I make, and I’ve even been asked if I had one. The reason that I might need one is because it’s hard for people to know what kind of candy that I make and that they can buy. But if I do make a candy website, it might not for awhile. It sure is nice to find someone who wants the candy though. Sometimes I’ve made it in the past, and no one around here eats it so I ended up just throwing it away. I know that it’s bad to waste food, but you can only eat so much! With Easter just around the corner, I’m thinking that our kids might not be hoping for candy but maybe some chips and stuff like that….
Kyle will be home for another 2 to 3 weeks and it’s been so nice having him home. At first it was kind of weird having four places at the supper table and now I’m not too excited about going back to three… or even two places at the table when William is gone. But Kyle’s girlfriend will be coming to our home for about a month in May, so then we’ll be up to five at our table. I can’t wait for her to visit us because it’ll be a lot of fun having her here and seeing all what Iowa has to offer.
We got our first invitation to a graduation party the other day. That is so hard to believe that it’s just around the corner and these kids will be done with high school. William has a couple of fun things to do yet – State Jazz, Prom, Senior Science Trip, and a couple of music contests. But I know from the past, this next month goes by really fast and soon it’ll be over and we’ll be starting the next phase of all of our lives.
I was able to get the cement patch work done with little or no trouble at all. I’ve also got the painting done in the Roadhouse these past couple of days. And today I went to pick up the carpet for the floor. I was worried that the carpet would fall out of the truck on the way home, but it didn’t move at all. My brother-in-law who owns the store where we bought the carpet from, said that it would be just fine and he was absolutely right. I’m sure glad that he helped load it on the truck though. Tomorrow we’ll roll the carpet out and hopefully within the next couple of days we’ll get it laid. Yea!!!! I need to have this done so I can figure out where the tables should go for the party and just to be able to organize stuff.
Our new carpet for the Roadhouse
It’s been so windy lately and you know how much I hate wind! Even the dogs don’t like it. Reno took her bed and moved it to the middle of the yard and curled up on it, just watching the neighbors working in the field. Apollo stayed on the corner of the porch and had no desire to be sitting where Reno was.
Reno just hanging out in the middle of our yard
We’ve been dealing with the cement contractor on trying to figure out just what we are, and are not going to cement yet this spring on the outside of the Roadhouse. We really like the work that this guy does, and now it’s just a matter of what we are planning on having him do. Since we’re not sure yet, I told him that I’d call him back yet this weekend and let him know. The three things that we’re looking at are, fixing the cement in front of the garage door by the Roadhouse, making a cement patio, and resealing the front porch on our house.
Lastly, with it being Good Friday – that means Red Lobster time! We’ve tried to make this a tradition and have been going there for the last four years. There are a couple of rules to this tradition. The first rule is that you shouldn’t eat very much at all during the day so you are really hungry when you get there. That way the second rule that you can order anything on the menu makes it taste even better because you are so hungry. Then the last rule is that we eat until you’re just about to bust. It’s funny because some of my friends were talking about going to Red Lobster a couple of months ago and I said that I couldn’t go because it wasn’t Good Friday. They just looked at me and said, ‘ok’. They obviously didn’t understand how much fun it can be just going once a year and picking anything off the menu. Now tonight after we got home we’re all just hanging out, feeling kind of sluggish. Kyle was talking to his girlfriend in Canada on the computer and William is working with a classmate on a paper that is due at midnight tonight and then he’s off to a bonfire. I’m thinking that I might just take a hot bath and call it a night.
It's Red Lobster time!