Sunday, March 31

Today is Easter Sunday. Hope everyone had a wonderful day. Today is also the last day of March. April coming up, along with the promise of warmer weather once we get past a few really cold days...and maybe even wintry weather for our part of the state.

We were up at 6:30 this morning, and of course, I skipped my exercises again, because I needed to get busy preparing for a noon Easter dinner. Mother and Sis came over relatively early, and they put together two large baking dishes of scalloped potatoes. There wasn't room in my oven for both dishes, so Sis put one in Mother's oven. Hubbie had peeled and then sliced the potatoes in the food processor earlier.

While the potatoes cooked, we did other things, like make deviled eggs, put asparagus, whole kernel corn, and ham, in dishes to be heated later, slice bread, fix an olive/pickle tray, set the table, and set up a buffet table.

About an hour later, I checked the potatoes. They were barely warm and had made no progress cooking. Hubbie put the thermometer in again, and it registered only 250 degrees, when it should have been 350 degrees. Drat. This meant that Hubbie and Sis had to take the dish to Mother's to be put in her oven as soon as the other one cooked. And it meant everything else had to be heated in the microwave.

Looks like we'll be calling a repairman for the stove, or opt to buy another unit. It's always something.

Daughter, and Niece and Nephew, arrived before noon, and we soon sat down to the meal. Everything turned out great, and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Spent the afternoon visiting and working the jigsaw puzzle. Everyone tried their hand at it, with Nephew having the best luck. He seemed to be able to look at a space, judge exactly the pattern that belonged there, look through the hundreds of pieces, pick up exactly the right one, and plunk it right into place. Yet, he declared that he is not fond of jigsaw puzzles.

Around 3:30, Sis and Niece and Nephew were ready to leave. Daughter stayed for a ham sandwich supper later, and then left around 6:30. Before she left, she accompanied Mother to her house. Hubbie and I spent part of the evening watching TV, and part of it looking for our male cat that seems to have slipped out of the house again. We have no idea where he is. Maybe we'll find him in the morning, if our other male cat hasn't run him off by then.