Happy Easter and Passover Everyone

   It doesn't seem possible that these two religious holidays are upon us already.

       Sooo are you hosting your holiday dinner?  I was on the look out for fresh strawberries this week as I plan to make angel food cakes for us along with keto churned ice cream and strawberries for dessert.  Sadly when I shopped at our small Wal mart nearby the strawberries looked terrible. So this morning I went to the local grocery store near me called G2 which is where I buy our fresh meat now, and I couldn't believe it that their strawberries were in worse shape than Wal mart's were and these were their special for the week-very sad. I decided to check out their frozen fruits and picked up a mixed bag of fruits along with frozen strawberries. Hopefully those will be better than what the fresh looked like.

  Hubs was with a friend last week and was shown where a large Amish country store was located. I knew about it but just hadn't searched out where it was located yet.  Probably about 45 minutes drive from us-but he said I wouldn't believe it-it was huge like a regular hometown grocery store. So I am anxious to check this out one day. Am hoping they will also sell fresh fruits and veggies this summer for canning and freezing.

  I was looking for a small beef roast but didn't find one so I picked up a very small smoked ham instead. Will serve with a large fresh salad, and probably green and yellow beans-that I found frozen today. and our dessert. I will be baking up my farm girl Grandma's Yellow angel food cake recipe-we really love it, and using gluten free flour for my cake turns out really well too. So I will be baking up two cakes.

  

 and thank you's for the lovely slow mail in my box this week I am so enjoying all of my dear pen pals 

    Every day now, I look for something in my life, each day to be grateful for, probably since I am in my 70's now and reflecting the past, I am also working towards appreciating life more-mostly the little things. 

    Today I am especially thankful that my husband just received hearing aids in the mail-very high tech hearing aids. When he was in his late teens his ear drums had gotten damaged and all his life since he has had horrible very loud tinnitus in his ears, never silence since that day-I can't even manage keeping sane and not being angry at the world.  He just recently discovered a company that makes these hearing aids that pretty much eliminates the very loud ringing in his ears. Designed for the military, these also automatically protect your ears when a very loud noise goes off close to you. What a break through. He has them on now, making sure they fit right and adjusting things-but he is telling me all the things he can hear now-the furnace coming on, the coffee brewing.  I am almost crying I am so thankful for this miracle for him.

I picked up these pretty yellow tulips when I was grocery shopping-they were marked down since the leaves were beginning to turn yellow-I will cut those off soon and enjoy these as they fully open up

and we have been enjoying a gorgeous full moon over the lake the last few days, tonight though brings us freeze warnings.

Happy Holidays Everyone!!