It’s been pouring and t-storming, so all the plants are bursting out!  I spent yesterday cleaning and cooking : Indian chicken and vegetables, saffron basmati, fried homegrown (frozen) okra and jalapeños, and all the Pesach “fixin’s” and seder plate.  It came out really nicely.  Loucious was less impressed, because I wouldn’t play much frisbee with him out in the puddles!  But he got over it at dinnertime!

We had a full house, including Jess.  She and I got appropriately schnockered.  The kids (except K, who felt sick) seemed to have a good time, especially since we didn’t go through the whole ordeal.  Y couldn’t get enough of my award-winning charoset, because it’s simply the best.  Or maybe it was because it was schnockered as well, as I conveniently neglected to mention!  The kids like matzah, too.

Avdi and Jess insisted I get a ride home or stay, so he drove me home.  If the rain holds off until later, I may walk over, and start up all over again.  Tonight’s meal will be a little more traditional, with matzah balls in homemade chicken soup, potato latkes, and possibly the first ever asparagus from the garden!

As you can see, the bluebell drifts (and other ephemerals) are spectacular this year; I can’t get enough.  It looks like many of the flowers I planted are germinating, and the veg garden is starting to take off after the rain.  I’m hoping the “wetland” natives along the “woods edge” will do the same.  I have a good feeling about this growing season.