A Wonderful Weekend and a Practical Joke

You should have been here to smell these amazing pancakes.

I was told they were going to be lemon pancakes with

blueberry topping...

However, we didn't have enough blueberries on hand to 

make a topping.

Therefore, they had a cream cheese/lemon topping

that was amazing!

Just the right amount of tartness to offset the sweetness of the 

lemon pancakes themselves.

Thanks Chelsea!!
We loved them.

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On a totally different subject...

Our Pastor is so much fun.

He has been teaching a class on Paul's Missionary 

Journeys for the past 20 weeks.

Yesterday was the final class.

When we met on Thursday for music practice

he asked if Warren and I could come up with 

"photo of Paul" that had our friend Duane in it.

We agreed that we could do this and then

forgot to do it.

Until we returned home at 11:30pm Saturday night.

There was a message on our answering machine

from Pastor Mike reminding us about the 

picture.  Oops!

Thankfully I already knew which picture

of Duane I would use.

That meant that I had to find something that 

would fit the Apostle Paul.

A quick Google search turned up a lovely

photo which I borrowed.

Thanks Google Images!

 That looks like Patrick Stewart to me, 

do you agree?

I loved him in Star Trek!

Anyway, having never used the extract feature in 

Photo Shop I quickly studied the instructions

and after a mistake or two came up with this.

Pastor Mike had everyone's full attention as he 

told us that sometime in the 1970's an artist was 

commissioned to paint a picture of the Apostle Paul.

Then this picture was flashed up onto the screen.

You should have heard the gasps and then the laughter.

It was great!!

Poor Duane, I guess this is what you get when you 

are the one in the church who specializes in making

people smile.  Duane is a very fun guy.

*****

Saturday was a fun day of getting ready

for a Mother's Day picnic on the deck.

All of the winter yuck was still out there

and I had not planted anything in the many 

planters out there.

So, Chelsea and I visited our local Agway

and Kimrik Garden Center to get

flowers and potting soil.

Watch for a post on Kimrik coming soon.

I plan to go back and get photos and speak 

with the owner a bit. 

She has agreed to an actual blog post all 

about her fabulous store.

Anyway, we came home and planted all of our

goodies.  They spruced up the deck perfectly.

In a couple of weeks the containers will be bursting

with color and happy plants.

Chelsea got three herb plants and is 

looking forward to making her first 

basil mozzarella pizza with her own basil.

I'm looking forward to that too.

The weather was perfect for the picnic on 

Sunday and we had a marvelous time

with both our Moms, Pastor Mike and 

our friend Jenny.

Interesting note:

Jenny has spent a lot of time in the restaurant 

industry and she told us that you should 

never put sugar on strawberries.

You should salt them.

This makes them taste sweeter.

Have you ever heard of that?

We hadn't.

It kind of makes sense but scares me

at the same time....

This just barely scratches the surface of our weekend.

It was good.  I am blessed.
More photos of our flowers....

I am considering making these into 

cards for my Etsy store....

Any opinions?

I need something to keep the store 

open during the hottest months of the Summer

when shipping soy candles is a bad idea.