SPRING RAMBLINGS

This is a random little post that runs the gamut of A~Z. It's a beautiful day here...temps in the 40's. This is how it should be in March! I went out this morning to take some pictures of some tulips that just sprung up and it felt a little chilly. After our heat wave last week, it feels great!
Later I will have some clusters of tulips for you, but right now I just have a random few. I can't wait to cut some for inside. I think we are all getting tired of store bought tulips, although some of you in the South have some gorgeous plants blooming outside!
It's been a quiet week here. The heat crept into the house and didn't want to leave. Since we have a brick house, once the heat get's in, it takes awhile to get out. We had the kids over for pizza one night, and Emily and Mike for roast beef another, but for the most part I made simple dinners on the stove top.
I wanted to give a big thanks to Diana of Nana Diana Takes A Break. She gave me some wonderful advice on eliminating flour and sugar from my diet. The sugar is a no brainer, but the flour was something new to me. So I eliminated pasta and bread and such and I am so pleased to say I've lost 6 pounds. Thanks, Diana! It's not that hard to stick to but I did have to give up baking for awhile. It's just too tempting. So, wish me luck!
Saturday night we went out to eat at one of our favorite places, The Island Cafe. As you can see, we had the whole place to ourselves. It's sort of odd because the food is outstanding. It was so quiet I could hear the chef pounding out my veal in the kitchen!
As you can see, getting out really makes me happy. The Husband had Chicken Vesuvio. I was good and stayed away from that bread basket!
Its funny that when a waitress sees you with a camera in a restaurant, they think you are out of towners and offer to take your picture. This was taken the last time we were there.
After dinner we stopped at a little place a few blocks from home for a glass of wine. I love this clock. It was actually dark when we were leaving but I was able to lighten this picture up a bit.

So that was my week. I hope I have something more interesting to post next time. April will be a busy month for us {can you believe it is right around the corner?}. We have all the spring work to do at the lake but it will be so good to be back up there. We were just too busy to get up over the winter. And we have planned our vacation...we booked our flight to Asheville from May 18th to the 26th. Yay! We really had such a wonderful time last spring and it's great because it is only an hour and 1/2 away flying. Does anyone have their vacation plans made yet? I'd love to hear about them.

Well...that's all I have. I hope everyone is having a good start to their week. See you soon! :-)