Friendship Haiku

Some friends come and go

but good friends stay forever

I am one of them

I was thinking about friends I have had thru my life. 

I don't think I've ever ended a friendship knowingly.

Some friendships ended because of moving away and losing touch  

Some ended because the other person decided they didn't want to be friends anymore.

Thanks to Facebook I have reconnected with friends of my past.

Today I talked to several friends I had not talked to in a while. 

People I know from school.  Teachers, parents, students, staff.

I called them for different reasons.

One of my best friends in school, Jessica, lost her parents within 3 weeks.

The first secretary at Jersey lost her husband a couple of weeks ago.

The "ruler" of the IMC is retiring and having a party the 27th

Another teacher told me all the latest gossip

An ex student wanted to know if I would go back to teaching since his son is starting K in September.

They all seemed happy to hear from me. I shall keep in touch more often.

Easter

This year Easter is a week before Marvin's Birthday.

Because it was just the two of us, I ordered an Easter dinner from Mimi's and brought it home.

We had a big breakfast in the morning. I cooked bacon and sausage and eggs, biscuits and gravy. It was very tasty!

In the afternoon, I drove to Mimi's to get our Easter meal. It was a salad, baked ham, dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans and a mini baguette. For dessert there was a creme brulee cheesecake with strawberry sauce (best part of the meal).

Notice the beautiful roses from our garden

It was a quiet day. Marvin was not feeling too well all day and spend some time napping, I also took a nap after our dinner.

I was thinking of other Easters. When the girls were little Marvin's sister Mary made them long dresses, sometimes with bonnets too. I saved a couple of them. We always had egg hunts around our backyard, it was fun. I remember some Easters when it snowed, fun times in Idaho!

Then when Tristan was born, Easters were fun, some years we drove to Utah and spent  my school Spring Break there. One year we had a fun Easter over at Lizzie's in San Diego. I remember the girls and Tristan each got a golden egg with $100 inside courtesy of JoBunny  ;)

Then we had some fun Easters when Mia came from Sweden in April , remember that?

I hope everybody had a very nice Easter weekend.

Good Friday/Viernes Santo

Today is just about the only day in the year that I follow Catholic rules, well sort of. It's the only day I don't eat meat, and also  at 3:00PM (the time that Jesus was nailed to the Cross, supposedly) I hagve a prayer that I have done for many many years, just by myself, on my knees. It's sort of a tradition I made for myself.

When I was growing up , under Franco, they had big processions on Good Friday all over Spain. Nowadays only some cities and towns in the south primarily still have them. It scared me to see the Penitentes, with chains tied to their feet, walking all the way, bleeding, sometimes carrying heavy crosses, and the scarier, the "cofradias" or church members wearing their big cones on their head, different colors according to their church, and once in a while, usually a woman on a balcony start singing a "saeta" which is a very mournful song.

Last night in Sevilla they were having an big procession with hundreds of people participating and watching, when some men yelled "Allah is great" and they were brandishing metal bars and hitting things, and there was an stampede with people running in panic. and of course it halted the procession. There's different versions of the events depending what news you read. Is just too bad things like this happen. Most agree it was not an act of terrorism, but of vandalism.

In other happenings this morning I had a dermatology appointment in Garden Grove, I had my leg checked, and also I had about 2 small spots frozen in my arm and 2 in my face (too much sun and beach time in my teens)

So that was my Good Friday 2017.

Got it done

Marv and I spent most of Sunday building my elevated planter. It was quite a job, is hard to follow directions when the pictures and directions don't seem too clear. But we got it done. Mainly Marv did all the work, the drilling and putting things together, I read the directions and gave some input. We just made a mistake but it was easily solved. We were pretty proud with the end result :)

Today Norbert came to help me move it to where it should go, that was too hard to do by myself or with Marv. So now it is in place, and N put the bags of soil that I had bought in the box and is ready for planting. I bought 1 tomato plant, 2 green peppers, and one tomatillo today. The theme of the planter is going to be a salsa garden :)  I already have the cilantro plant and jalapeño plant and green onion plants in pots. And also 2 more tomato plants.  In front of the house where we had tomatoes last year we have 3 big plants that grew voluntarily from last year. I don't think they will give a good crop but it already has some tomatoes. I also planted some celery. And I have a strawberry planter with an assortment of herbs, and of course, a strawberry plant too.

It's one of the perks of living in SoCal, things grow here with minimum effort :)

This is just for my information:

Vegetables plants I have so far

6 tomato plants

1 tomatillo

2 green peppers

2 hot peppers

3 celery plants

1 strawberry plant

Herbs I have so far

Rosemary (2 big plants)

2 cilantro

2 thyme plants, one huge

1 rue

2 mints

1 Mexican oregano

1 lemon verbena

2 Big lavender plants

1 chamomile

1 parsley

To April

Watching her daily

No baby was born today

Maybe tomorrow

March Recap

Things happening in March:

Marv had a procedure done on the 10th
I had a mammogram on the 6th (needs to be retaken)
Marv had a dermatology visit on the 27th, had a biopsy taken on his lip.

Our heater has not been working. The technician came twice and still not working grrr

Went to HB the 15th, lunch with N at El Ranchito.

Lizzie came over the weekend of St Patrick's. She got sick on our lunch Saturday and was not feeling so well  :(

The 19th my grandson turned 19!  Time goes so fast.


MOVIES I've watched in March

BOOKS I've read in March

It's SPRING

Flowers, veggies, herbs...

I love Spring, it's my favorite season. This year because of the rain, everything looks green and flowers are blooming, and is just beautiful!

I wish we could go see the wild flowers blooming in the California desert, or mountains, I read is one of the best years to see them  http://www.desertusa.com/wildflo/ca.html

I have been buying  flowers, and herbs and vegetables, and planted them around the fountain, Bending down and carrying stepping stones, and digging holes made my body pretty sore, I guess I'm not use to physical labor so much. So I was thinking it would be easier for me to be abkle to plant stuff on a raised surface, I talked to Marv about it, we discussed how he could build one of those raised beds easily when he was a few years younger, b\ he build a lot of things for the garden in front and in the backyard, but now it gets a little harder.  So I looked online and found a good raised planter. At first I was thinking of a 2x8, but finally I decided to start slow and  will be getting a 2x4

I will plant tomatoes, peppers hot and sweet, beans, onions, and some herbs. It won't hurt my back and I can just put it wherever I want (I think next to the shed).. I will take pictures and give updates. I'm pleased with the purchase :)