We had visitors last week, this large group of Elk showed up in the late afternoon!
How cool is that?
This hillside is just visible from 'our' property, if we walk up the little hill to the house, although the zoom of the camera and a pair of binoculars helped a lot of course ..

                                   

                                             

The pictures got a little blurry when I enlarged them ..

No obvious bulls in sight but that's most likely due to the fact that the NW Elk shed their antlers around the middle/end of March, so they're probably all off by now.
They were all gone the next morning .. off to greener pastures!

Easter has already come and gone again. That's the disadvantage of blogging only once a week, I often am a little behind times ..
As usual I decorated some:

Other than that we just relaxed, which means James golfed and I read.
We had a nice piece of Key Lime pie for coffee and I prepared a Lamb-roast in the Instant pot.
I forgot to take pictures .. sigh .. except for this one of the dessert.
Banana cream mousse with 'Peeps':

The weather has been quite good this week and I went for a little walk to the river which is at the bottom/start of the road we're on:

 

It's just a short walk down and I have to cross the main road, but I can actually walk along the water's edge for a little.
It's a nice change of scenery from my usual meadow-views.

                                                  

Lots of horsetails are coming up along the soggy shore and the willows looked especially bright here against the deep blue sky:

No lambs or Easter bunnies around here but I see more and more calves in our neighbor's meadow:

         

I love that these beef-calves can stay with their mothers for quite a long time (6-8 months) whereas milk-cows are separated almost immediately from their mamas.

As I mentioned, so far these first couple of days in April have been fairly nice.
Long stretches of sunshine, although rather on the cool site still, and quite windy in the afternoon.
In the sun and out of the wind, on the lee-side of the RV, we managed to sneak in a few outdoor happy-hours and even a (first of the year) dinner 'al-fresco'!

Soon, we will need an umbrella to sit there or maybe we'll move the table to the other side for the summer.
It was an easy one-bowl affair (left-over lamb with couscous) but dinner is dinner and it was very good!

                                        

This week I made short work of the two smallest puzzles from the box I borrowed from our landlord.
They went fast since they're only 300 pieces each, although the circle-shape involved some weird shaped pieces which made it a little more challenging ..

And that's all for this week. It's April, my birthday-month, and it looks like the weather is slowly getting 'better' as they say.
For me 'better' is actually just like it is right now, maybe just a tad warmer, but not by much! I really hope this coming summer will not be such a hot one, but with global warming becoming more and more apparent I'm afraid there's not much hope for that ..