Trees, Ice Cream, and Other Ramblings

Wow! We are about to enter birthday season here. Lauren is the first birthday in the family for the year but is a full month before Tracie’s (my baby sister). Sean’s is soon to follow and my nephew Justin is just two days later. We will get a break until May and then we begin celebrating something nearly every week.

Blooming BPT ~ Lifeofjoy.meOur Bradford Pear trees are looking good! My parents bought us these trees about ten years ago and they were no taller than me, when planted. They have grown considerably.

This one grew some branches lower on its trunk than is normal. We considered pruning them off but I stopped Mike, insisting that one day my little grandchildren would appreciate having a tree with low limbs on it that they could climb easily. ;)

Mike took this picture earlier this week. Now the blossoms are giving way to leaves.

In other tree news, the plum tree we planted last year has blossoms on it too. This concerns me because I triple-checked that it was an edible fruit bearing tree. I had no clue that this tree would blossom before the leaves grew, so I hope it grows fruit too. (I know, I’m showing how little I know about growing things.)

Within the next few days, Tiffany and I are going to have to walk the property and mark all the wild Bradford Pear trees and Redbud trees on the property, while they are in bloom. Otherwise we can’t tell which ones they are because as I’ve already acknowledged, I don’t know a whole lot about growing things. ;) Any way, we will be clearing some paths and I don’t want to knock down any of those beautiful trees, so we will mark them while we can still tell what they are. :)

Sundae ~ Lifeofjoy.meI believe I mentioned that we bought a small chest freezer last month. Within a couple of weeks, I bought a big tub of ice cream. We love ice cream around here. :) Tiff and I had some small sundaes the other day because we wanted our sweet thing after lunch rather than after dinner.

Scrumptious! This one had neapolitan ice cream, chocolate syrup, whipped cream, and slivered almonds. Mmmm Mmmm!

Next week I will be letting you all in on that secret I mentioned several months ago! I can’t wait! Actually, I think I have two biggies to share next week! I’m really excited but I bet you couldn’t tell, huh? Did I use enough exclamation points? LOL

OH! One more thing, we had a meeting lunch at Cracker Barrel last Sunday with some people from church. I got the shrimp platter and it was delicious!!! Seriously! It was really really good. One odd thing though, they had ‘fried’ chicken three different ways that we saw. Tiffany got the Fried Chicken Special and her chicken was really really good. Mike got the Chicken Fried Chicken again and it was good but Tiff’s had a better taste to the breading. Then there was also a buttermilk fried chicken, I think. I didn’t realize that one restaurant would ‘fry’ chicken more than one way. Everyone enjoyed their meal.

Well, I’m going to run for now. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Until next time, God bless,

Michele ºÜº

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