March comes in like a Lamb (son)

It has been nice and spring-like all week with some very warm days and some days a bit cool and breezy.  My first daffodil opened up this week (excuse the blurry photo...it was too hard to get on my knees to get a better shot)

Being the first of the month, I went to the Happy Hookers monthly meeting to deliver all the sewing projects I had completed.  I had thirteen zippered bags to donate to an inner city school that sends them home full of weekend food.  I particularly love the yellow check ones and you can see the dogs printed on the the patterned yellow bags.  Most of the ladies in the group donate crocheted blankets and I kind of wonder how useful those items really are.  Do the nursing homes and women and children's shelters just roll their eyes when a new batch of crocheted blankets arrive every month?  I hope they are welcomed because these ladies are so diligent and thoughtful...

Larkin came for the day on Friday and we had a little outing to Mastodon State Historic Site just south of us about twenty miles.  We visited the museum and hiked down (and back up!) the dozens of stairs to the bone yard site.

 

I didn't have orchestra rehearsal on Tuesday evening so Steve and I enjoyed watching a movie that Elise loaned to us  - "Paycheck".  It was a thriller and a pretty good watch.  While Steve was at church youth activities on Wednesday evening, I finished the series on Boba Fett.  Loved seeing baby Yoda again!  And on Friday, we went to Mona and Ed's for another dinner and a movie night.  Gluten-free pizza was again on the menu and we watched "O Brother Where Art Thou".  Great music, rather odd movie but with some funny moments.  Steve and I started watching "Luca" with Larkin on Friday and finished it ourselves on Saturday.  That was a cute movie.  

Saturday was a FULL day!  It started early with a full schedule at the temple baptistry and was followed by piano lessons at the Southerlands.  The evening was the ward talent show.  I rounded up two violinists and a violist and we played "Concerning Hobbits".  The other talent was quite varied:  poetry readings, a juggling act, ballroom dancing couple, three vocal numbers, a handful of instrumental performances, a science demonstration and a gymnastics show.  There were also tables to display other kinds of talents.  The most impressive one was a poster with an extremely complicated math problem!  Elise arrived a few minutes after we got home from the activity.  She and Beckie and the entire Southerland gang and Steve and I are attending the Saint Louis Symphony performance of the Mozart Requiem this afternoon.  Very excited about that. 

We got the pilot light lit again on the hot water heater and our current plan is to just buy an igniting unit and have a plumber replace just that part since the tank is not leaking.  

And, I think that is all my news for the week....