The Front Porch Swing

[Triple Willow]

I'd like to try one of these Salt Rox...
http://www.saltrox.com/himalayan-salt-block-8x12x2/#PhotoSwipe1398028847598

 

[Blooie]

I hope everyone's Easter was a special as our was this year.

 

[wyoDreamer]

I'd like to try one of these Salt Rox...
http://www.saltrox.com/himalayan-salt-block-8x12x2/#PhotoSwipe1398028847598

My supervisor has a couple of these. He uses them on his grill and likes them.

 

[RachaelS]

I hope everyone's Easter was a special as our was this year.

Ours was, lot's of family and kids laughter, a very blessed day.

 

[Blooie]

I hadn't cleaned the coop yet because I was kinda busy making a nice Easter lupper. Well, if there can be Easter brunches why can't there be Easter luppers when it's past time for lunch and not yet time for supper? (Why didn't anyone ever warn me that it takes longer to cut, clean, and cook a Hubbard Squash than it took to grow it?) Besides, in all the excitement of finishing the poop board I kinda sorta forgot about needing something to scoop it with. This evening Ken built me a small one with a leftover piece of 1/4" hardware cloth, and although not real comfortable to use it did work.

The kids had a great time....Katie had to check on the chickens first thing. She came running full tilt into the house to tell me that the "pooping board" was just "full of chicken dropplings" and shouldn't I clean it up? Sure, Katie - as soon as you leave the room so I can have a good laugh! Jenny and Katie made an Easter Bunny cake, and it was so cute. Then she cut it - looked like a bunny autopsy!


The Bunny Cake - before...


The Bunny Cake after!


Kendra loved the icing - both hands worth. The spoon in the picture was just superfluous equipment.




Evan with a mouthful...every time I see that boy he has a mouthful of food! He gets home from school, puts on his eating clothes, unhinges his jaws, and tilts the refrigerator.


Sweet little Katiebug - always the lady.



And then a little music, presented with love from Kendra and Grampa.

 

[Blooie]

Sorry. I can't resist another photo. I was watching Chicken TV while I washed eggs and Dad took out the Easter Treats. Dad is the treat man, so the flock LURVES him. They haven't gotten scrambled eggs in a while. He was mobbed until I ran out with the phone to take a photo.

This is such a touching photo..in years to come it will become a treasure. That's a prediction straight from Nostradianus, the Evil Prophet of Cowley, as Kenny calls me sometimes.

My very favorite salts are Himalayan Pink Sea Salt and Black Lava Hawaiian Salt. (I think that's what it's called...I haven't bought any yet but Kenny uses it when we eat there and it's so good! I've never tried a Salt Rox - never even heard of it. Sounds like somebody needs to fill me in! I'm supposed to avoid salt....I'm on my fourth set of stents in my Illiac and Aortic arteries....but I might as well stop breathing now and save everyone a lot of time and money.

 

[Triple Willow]

My supervisor has a couple of these.  He uses them on his grill and likes them.

I bet they do flavor food up good. I wonder how/if you clean them.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

I think the salt blocks are more about heat conduction than flavoring the food. You probably heat clean them? There is (was?) a salt boutique in Portland that held cooking classes for those things. I've always wanted to take the class.

I'd love to learn to make salt. Probably my favorite salt is French sea salt.

 

[Beekissed]

I had a simply wonderful, blessed day all day long! It was perfect from start to finish if you stand back and look at it. The restaurant I wanted to go to was closed for Resurrection Day and I was not disappointed...I was glad they were observing the day rather than working.

So we went just down the street to another, similar place and it worked out lovely! The food was so good, we were not rushed out of the place so we got to spend good time and the staff was so sweet and funny that we all left a 30% tip, we had a wonderful time and we even got to have communion with one another...I ordered a glass of wine and we had the unleavened bread already in the food we ordered, so it was perfect! We ate the bread, passed the glass and fellowshipped with one another in love and in Christ.

I got to spend the day with my family, with my sweet little grandbaby and we even got to watch an absolutely GREAT movie. I don't often watch movies any longer and especially not if they are generated by the Hollywood machine but "God is not Dead" was worth watching and will be worth watching again later. We had the whole movie theater to ourselves so we could discuss the movie, cheer, Amen, not care if the baby cried, and just relax... the movies only cost $5 at that place and it's the most comfortable theater I've ever sat in.

Then we visited my sister's house on the way home, talked and laughed all evening and finally made it home before dark. I felt like we were walking in the hand of God all day long and it was the most wonderful feeling in all the world. God is so good!

I hope you all have a wonderful day too!


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Blooie, this was so very funny!!! This describes my boys to a "T".....it's awe inspiring and a little scary to watch how much they can put away when they get home from school. I don't think they feed them enough there....

 

[heartsizedfarm]

Love that! Why didn't someone tell me it takes as long to cook etc a Hubbard Squash as to grow it! Funny, Blooie. But worth it for the taste right?