Back To Work Week

G has returned to work and I am returning to my daily household tasks. Yesterday I spent the afternoon with my daughter shopping for the Easter Bunny House I will be building instead of doing Ironing. It was a lesson in shopping. We bought things in one store, only to find them less expensive (by a lot) in another. So I bought, I returned, I bought, I returned. I didn't return the wooden tongue depressors I bought at JoAnn's even though I found double the amount for less than half the cost at Michaels. And at Moore's.

My photo this morning is of a print which hangs in the "Cooking Altar" over my stove. I have several framed prints of bowls of cherries. And each has the cherries in a blue and white bowl. They make me smile. Always a good thing when employed in the "Cooking Altar".

I sent G to work with the latest in a long line of counter top displays for his restaurant. The Easter Bunny House is destined for this counter display next month. Today they have a tall, wide glass vase with paperwhite "greens", bulbs and roots, growing out of volcanic rocks. And I have inserted fake Hawaiian flowers into the living green leaves. Something I enjoy doing. A bit of real and a bit more of fake. I wish now I had taken a picture for you, but it wasn't red. And it was dark (night) when I prepared it for G. Not the best time to take pictures.

In fact, I was happy to have an extra picture in iPhoto for you this morning, as it is cloudy and dull this morning. No sunshine. So not a good morning to be taking pictures, either.

On my shopping adventure S and I found large fake carrots but no other root vegetables. So I went hunting in the attic craft boxes. And I found strawberry bunches and the fake radishes I remember buying once upon a time. I plan on having a side garden next to the Bunny House where these fake radishes will be growing. My daughter wanted me to buy Easter Grass to go all around the house, but I have been imagining real grass, started from seed. I also bought some wood cutouts that I can paint. Sort of wood cut out cookies. Eggs and carrots.

I plan to read a bit this morning. Walk the dog after lunch. Do some much needed grocery shopping. Milk, yogurt, butter, coffee. Make dinner even though, right now, I have no idea what that will be. And try and fit in some ironing of shirts and preparation for Saturday's class. G and I had Chinese for dinner last night. We were starving (no lunch) and ate while reading the Sunday paper. Not very romantic. I can't really remember a romantic Valentine's Day.

Ever. PBS had another Jane Austen. Now that was a lovely Valentine treat.