Happy belated Mardi Gras Y'all! I know, we're no Louisianians (aka 'coonasses') and certainly no Catholics but once you've been bitten by the southern mardi Gras-bug you can't get rid of celebrating it anymore!
So, once again, I dug up the beaded necklaces that were thrown at us during the parades we attended in New Orleans several years ago, and decorated the RV inside and out.
And of course .. I baked another King Cake!

                        

As usual, my tiny RV-kitchen kitchen looked like a bomb exploded, but the end-result was (almost) perfect:

                 

Which made me do a dive into my picture archive to come up with the 5, yes five (!) previous ones I baked over the last 6 years or so ..

As you can see, they all look different, which is off course due to the fact that I try a (slightly) different recipe every year.
They all tasted delicious though, honestly, and this last one was no exception.

Other than that it was another quiet week here in Newberg, although we did go for a little drive to Lake Oswego (about 45 minutes to the north of us) to take care of some legal paper stuff (Trust, Will and so-fort).

              

We'd not been there yet, and had hoped it would be a nice and sunny day so we could do some sight-seeing .. drive around the lake, stroll through town etc., but no such luck, it was grey and rainy and nasty ..

We ended up taking care of 'business' quickly and will go back sometime when the weather is a little better. It looks like a very nice area ..

The rain finally stopped on Wednesday and the sun came back out, so when I went grocery shopping I couldn't resist picking up a few of the colorful primroses they had strategically placed at the front entrance ..

        

I never knew, but they smell quite wonderful, albeit only the yellow ones!

The next day was even sunnier, and the sun stayed just long enough at the patio that we could have happy hour (well, more like 15 minutes) outside for the first time this year!
Next week daylight savings time will have kicked in and, depending if we will have sun to begin with, we will be sitting outside for sure!

Proost!

While sitting there I took a peek in my 'glass-house', and lo-and-behold, the arugola and the spinach is coming up! So cool!

                                                          

Also, look who's back?

It's a little hard to see through my (dirty) office window, but it's one of the deer that came by quite often last year. Here's a better shot:

I've also seen the doe and her (almost full grown now) fawn, but I couldn't get a picture of her yet. I'm so glad they all survived the winter!