𝅘𝅥𝅮 Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me ... and many more! ♫ |
Since all restaurants were closed, I had a nice piece of Mary Callenders' Key-Lime pie (my new favorite pie!), and for dinner I'd picked up some lobster and steak for a Surf & Turf!
Count me in, said Merl', although his (17th!) birthday isn't until next month!
The day after mine is King's Day, the birthday of King Willem-Alexander, (my) king of the Netherlands, and traditionally you'll fly the dutch flag with the addition of an orange streamer/pennant.
Like this:
I'm still dutch of course, I have a green card and am only a 'permanent resident' of the USA, but I am actually eligible for double citizenship (through my marriage to a US citizen)
It's just rather pricey, but now we have some money (!) I might look into it. It makes certain things a lot easier ...
The view from my chair as I write this is of an almost iridescent green, it doesn't really show in the picture but it's very pretty!
The trees, mainly Locusts, are leaving out fast and the grass is starting to grow lush and thick.
So much so that I actually already mowed it last Sunday!
There's a cluster of large poppies growing next to the RV and they take turns opening up.
I climbed a different hill yesterday, just to spice things up a little, and was rewarded with this different view of our 'compound' ..
That's the new house up above, and the old one to the left, with our RV just visible parked in front. The white building in the front is the shop and barn.
The snakes are definitely waking up in this beautiful warm weather we're having. I came across a rattler and the guys (accidentally) drove over one the other day.

I came across a small Gopher Snake on this walk, the one in the middle, who apparently just had breakfast. See the bulge halfway his/her body?
The other one in the compilation is 'our' house-snake.
She literary lives in the (Sam's) house, as in 'behind the siding'! Yikes!
She's a Gopher too though, another 'good' one, so we let her be ..
As I was making my way down the hill, stepping in the footprints of Elk who had been there before me, I almost squashed this huge Toad!
He was as big as my hand, it would have been a terrible splash!
As far as birds go, always my favorites, I'm trying to get a shot of a flock of tiny Lesser Gold-finches but they're very camera-shy so it's not that easy.
I did get one of this female, who isn't that flashy in coloring but a soft pale yellow nevertheless ..
And look what the Screech-owls produced? Three little chicks! At least, I think there are three ..
Isn't he the cutest? That fluff! |
I don't have much else to write about, I think. Like I said in my last post, I really can not concentrate on anything these days ...
I've cooked some more 'comfort food', like this delicious 15-bean soup with some leftover ham and collards.
I think this is my new favorite soup, I like it even better than pea-soup and that says something!
Oh, and I finally made some donuts in my new pan!
They're baked in the oven, they're really delicious and very, very easy to make!
They're done in 10 minutes, after which you let them cool and roll them in some cinnamon (or confection) sugar.
M-m good!