I have received some rather concerned letters regarding my health and state of existence as I haven't written since December and we've already reached the month of March....Not to worry, I am alive and well.... Let me explain.... no there is too much, let me sum up:
Christmas was great, I worked. It was fun.
Right after Christmas I made a wedding cake for a sweet woman in my ward, I was making it as I left for the airport with my parents so a friend assembled it in it's final location.
To celebrate the new year I accompanied my parents and brother Samuel to Deann's beautiful house in South Carolina where my other two brothers and their wives met us and we had an almost reunion, missing of course Martha and Blair and their five. I got to play fun games (probably my favorite part)
I also made a Hannah Montana birthday cake for my niece, shown here:
Then it was school, school, and January flew by. February started out with a bang...or rather a bit of smoke. Martha came down for a surprise birthday bash for Samuel. He loved the surprise and the being surrounded by friends and family. My dinner group attended of course because we had the largest lasagna I have ever seen, which by the way was not half bad.
Other than that I've been a busy little beaver working on crocheted baby blankets and quilts and just having a gay ole' time. I have worked quite a bit. Maybe that's where they got the whole dead idea....working graveyards does not have anything to do with my own health, or rather I hope that I get enough sleep so that it does not.
So, there, in a small nutshell is my excuse for silence these past months...
Sidelight: I have just finished reading and watching the BBC rendition of
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Glaskell and I would highly recommend it to anyone. Perhaps it is because of it's recent memory, but I could be persuaded to admit that it has taken the place of
Pride and Prejudice as my favorite 6 hour movie. My favorite English novel will continue to be
Jane Eyre, but this is a very close second, I think.
Well, I am loving this house more and more, especially because the lady that lived here before me was such a great gardener and now all sorts of flowers are coming up all on their own. I have given away two or three little bouquets of daffodils. I am so excited to have beautiful flowers, hyacinths, crocuses, daffodils, tulips, forget-me-nots, and lots that I don't even know yet what kind they will be! I also planted peas and cilantro in my garden today....just before the storm. I am going to have such great food all summer long from my very own garden.
