Had a very nice, but busy, Easter yesterday. Started early by getting up and helping to put a big pork roast into the oven as it was going to take at least 6 hours to cook it all the way through. Rima had actually gotten up even earlier to put it in, but we ended up changing the pan she had started out with, just to make it easier to baste with it's juices later on.
    The day before, Saturday, one of her sons and his wife had shown up late in the evening and planned to stay through mid afternoon with us. One of her daughters had also shown up on Friday, and with one other son, his wife and one of Rima's grand kids, Brynn, it was a pretty full house. We made it through breakfast first off, and then had a little time to relax. Everyone else went out for a short walk in the sun that day, while I hung around checking email and getting a start on dinner preparation.
    By 12:30 - 1:00 we were all sitting down to a pretty scrumptious meal.... if I do say so myself. The pork roast came out juicy and pretty much falling apart. Rima made her wonderful homemade peach chutney sauce to accompany it, and with mashed potatoes and gravy and hot cornbread it was a pretty good meal. Top it all off with a zucchini birthday cake for the two brothers and it was even better. Lots of fun just sitting around the table talking to everyone and watching the baby with her priceless little smile. Life is just good sometimes.
    Cleaned everything up and then everyone, but Jennifer headed for home. The remaining three of us took a short little walk right at dusk and then settled in for some 'Big Bang Theory' watching on DVD. All in all.... a very nice day.
   Beautiful here today. Finally warm enough that I am actually in shorts again. We all went out to lunch one last time before Jennifer leaves, just because we could, and because there really isn't much food left in the house right now. Micky G's was our choice for food, and it was a good one. I went with one of their basic calzones along with several glasses of ice tea to accompany it. Good choice!
    Headed outside right after this gets posted. Not sure what I'm going to do yet, but it doesn't really matter. It's nice, it's sunny and it's warm, pretty hard to beat that combination.


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