A Very Merry Easter

Easter,Rain and More Rain, a Friday made lazy by drops from the heavens. Up and at the online situation to further explore the 3G vs 2G question. You see Lignieres is serviced by only 2G equipment, thus the slower speed. 3G is better, many times better infact and while not yet at DSL speeds it will serve us better. The little Eee PC is a gem though, easy to use though the keyboard is in the French Layout it has an array of built in features that make it easy and fun to use. It's operating system is Linux which means it has good integration with the operations of the os itself when functioning as a word processor or a browser or any other function you care to build a program to do. Nice.

Then outside during a dry period to prune and saw the over grown and ivy wrapped lilac tree back into a tree-like shape. It is an old one, remembered by a local lady who lived here during WW2. Tearing away at the vines came first to show us what was there and to uncover the rot wherever it would be. Kelly labored long and hard at it and some 2 hours later the real lilac was revealed. Then came the removal of several large badly positioned branches followed by removal of some smaller ones. Soon the lilac looked better, more upright and more tree-like than before. Ted and I finished the deal by chopping up the removed branches into stove sized pieces for future heating exploits. Ted loves building fires.

I made my normal wheat bread today and have pulled it from the oven. It was baked in a dutch oven which has become a favorite method of mine as of late. The crust becomes more moist and tender and the evenness of baking is self evident as the crust is equally brown all over.

A&R came over for dinner, we had an old fashioned Sunday dinner in mid-usa circa 1957...
fried chicken, mashed potatoes and chicken gravy, green beans and bacon, apple pue with vanilla ice cream. All made by Kelly and I with Teds help. It was delicious if I say so myself, very satisfying and filling. 2nds were had by all. A success. The dinner broke up earlier than we expected as R was falling asleep and the rest of us were responding with yawns. Tomorrow is BROCANTE day, off to junk sales everywhere, be it Easter or not. Not many Christian celebrators hereabouts I guess. 95% unattending Catholics. 5% everything else.
Oh well, maybe an easter egg hunt here or there for the remembrance sake but little else I'm afraid.