Easter Sunday 'n most of the week after.....

HOPE YOU HAD A JOYOUS EASTER!

“Tardiness is not a virtue!”  So saieth Ms Fanny Williams, South Portsmouth Grade School, circa 1946 (maybe)….

So, maybe I’m just a leetle bit tardy talking about Easter Sunday but I am prone to my own time table ’n that’s just the way it is….Easter Sunday was a fine day right from the start….we got up ’n went to church at 7:30 in the AM…a beautiful, sunshiny day from the get-go…afterwards, we went home ’n prepared for Sunday company (I tried m’best to stay out’a the way)….’n I’m gonna skip over the preparations, suffice it to say that ever’thing got done in time…

All told, we only had a dozen people here at the Smith Manse in Olde Fair Oaks…it wuz a  quiet crowd, more or less, ’n most of us spent the early part of the afternoon on our newly refurbished veranda…I guess I c’n call it a veranda now as it kind’a wraps around one side anyhow….’n there’s a table ’n chairs, two rocking chairs ’n a lawn glider that I brought home from Mom’n Dads place in O’vale…

The menu wuz sufficient, what with lamb ’n ham ’n tons of veggie dishes (lots of leftovers for them as likes ‘em which is most ever’body ‘cept me)….enuff beer, wine, coffee ’n dessert ’n lots ’n lots of  pleasant conversation…as I stated before, it wuz a fine day all the way from git to go…would that ever’one had such a day….

Took a little trip to Santa Rosa to visit fam’ly…..Hwy 50 is a mess, what with the construction ’n such so I did an end run ’n went to old way down  past American River College to Auburn Blvd where I got on #80 ’n headed west…my first indication that things were going smoothly wuz when I got to Davis, I discovered that I had cut 10 minutes from the time it’s been taking me to go Hwy 50…hmmmm, who’da thunk it?

Had a pleasant drive all the way to Santa Rosa where bro-in-law Franko picked up the tab for lunch, nice visit with fam’ly ’n a smooth, uneventful ride back home in  time to walk da boyz…

And then, I guess God’s way of keeping things in perspective, we woke up to rain on the roof ’n snow on the mountain, over a foot, I’m told ’n a temporary closure of the Interstate….

The ubiquitous ‘they’ say that growing old ain’t for wusses but here lately, I’ve been having a pretty good time without even half trying….