International Wood Collectors Society LOL

 

Though my husband doesn’t collect wood specimens the way some do, he has tried to make little goblets (and wooden eggs) of varying specimens.

 

 

 

His acquaintance in Syracuse who sells lumber and has a huge specimen collection encouraged my husband to join the International Wood Collectors Society. When my husband sent in the membership information, he sent a dues check on our joint checking account. The person who processed the membership sent a card in my husband’s name and a card in my name. Hope nobody is expecting me to correctly identify these kinds of wood. Only one membership badge was sent; my husband quickly claimed that for himself.

Yesterday we drove about an hour to Mottville, Michigan, close to the Indiana state line. An Optimist club member had shared about Jaywalker restaurant.

This is a fairly small casual place located at US12 and M103. The main ambiance is from the wall of windows overlooking the St. Joseph river. There was a deck which would be nice in the summer.

I had salmon slightly Cajun style as the menu said. It was very tasty, not really spicy. My husband had frog legs, a really big pile. I ended up eating one of the saddles. The menu has dinner entrees like these including steak and on Sundays prime rib, but also sandwiches, enchiladas, appetizers.

The drive would have been prettier a few weeks ago. We have had lots of wind and the trees are mostly bare. We also have had hard freezes the past 3 nights. I didn’t cover the impatiens this time; time for them to go. I had been feeling for dryness some hydrangea blooms near the rehab unit every time I walked to the library, hoping to get a pinkish one to add to my bunch. I almost waited too long. All but two turned dark brown this weekend. Today I did pick one of the pink ones. Since I promised not to put any more hydrangea photos on the blog this year, you will have to take my word. The bloom is not very dry so I hope it does OK inside and doesn’t lose too much color.

I got up at 6 a.m. this morning to look at the super moon. The closest point was to be around 6:20. I was too cold to stay up waiting. I crawled back under the electric blanket. About 6:15 I heard my husband stirring. We took one last look. We could see the moon was sinking lower and would soon be in a cloud bank. The moon was large and bright, but as most scientists already warned, you couldn’t really tell if it was bigger. Tonight the moon is covered by haze. Did you make an effort to view the moon?

Deer Candy

Earlier this week we had several cold nights/early mornings. They nipped a few of the crocus. I had enjoyed the blooms for about 2 weeks; I told my husband Wednesday to remove the board we had been using to cover the crocus at night. Sure enough, Thursday the flowers had all been eaten by the deer. The deer received their Easter candy early.

 I am enjoying my indoor blooms though.

The pink tulips were mostly closed when I bought them Thursday. Today (Saturday) they are opening up. The bowl of wooden eggs were made by  my husband out of a variety of wood species. They are remarkably light weight given they are of wood.

Last night the Grace Village choir (to which I belong), presented a lovely Good Friday service of sacred music and narrative. There were several hymns in which the congregation joined. It seemed to touch people’s hearts and put us into the right frame to praise God for his great sacrifice and tomorrow for the joy of resurrection.

My Easter lily had two partially opened blooms when I bought it over a week ago. Slowly, day by day, more have been opening. Just one left to open, and it looks like that will happen tomorrow. All of the lilies celebrating Christ’s resurrection together.

Have a joyous and blessed Easter.