Yea!! Tomorrow and the next day we will be happily inundated with workers. There is so much to be done although Eric left things in great order at the end of the summer. These are things we have had to do for years at this time of year. The difference is there will be a cherry picker involved. The chimneys need point tucked. And, they need a wire cap on the opening because we have visitors, especially in the spring. Unwelcome, but they don't care; this is home to them too.
I feed the workers. Always have. So they come hungry and I intend to be ready for them with pork, potatoes, and carrots, and, Amish cheese bread. I can't give them the cheese bread croutons--Andy would not like that a bit. He is very possessive when it comes to homemade croutons. I should have something sweet, but by now you know that door seems to be closed for good. No matter what I see in magazines and on the food network, I cannot make myself bake! Oh, I just thought. I have a chocolate Babka in the freezer or I have little cakes that could be used in bread pudding. (I never used bread in that, just something sweet because the stuff I pour over the chunks of cake is delicious.) It is so easy and not like baking at all, except you do have to put it in the oven. lol) I can manage that.
We have bouquets of daffodils all over the house. They line the driveway, they are in the secret garden, and hover inside the hydrangea patch. Nate has bought and planted a fruit garden with three apple and three nectarines trees. I must admit, we have NO LUCK with fruit trees. The deer ruin them and it is so sad because the trees really want to be here. He also planted a dawn redwood..no fruit on that hardy tree and it will get to be a hundred feet tall, but I won't get to see that.
Better get busy, twelve people will be here Easter Day. First time in a year. I have the ham from Carfagna's. Carfagna's is moving from route 161 to Polaris. It will be a grand big store a bit like the one in New York that Lidia of public tv fame has. I like her show on Saturdays, but it is only half an hour for some strange reason, but, leave it to public tv they might pull it and have some infomercial going on in its place for three weeks! Don't get me started on that!
