Magnolias

Spent a good part of the day sleeping in. Like a dream, my wife snuck into our room in the middle of the night. We spent the morning with nieces J and A.  We read books and helped clean up sticks in the yard.

In the afternoon, we had to return my wife's rental car to the airport.  Heading out, C and R pointed out that the magnolia in their yard started to bloom.

C and R planted this in their yard in  remembrance of our wedding day.  They chose a magnolia because we lived on Magnolia Ave.  My wife and I always thought it was a shame that there were no magnolias on Magnolia Ave.  They are such pretty plants.   I hope to have one in my yard some day.

We dropped off my wife's rental car.  While waiting, I saw a F350 limousine!  Just when I thought a Humvee was the biggest limo I ever saw...

That evening, we went to a mexican restaurant.  Just leaving the farm, we saw six white tailed deer far out in the neighboring field.  The food was good, and in recognition of St. Patrick's Day, we got a couple of shamrock shakes from McDonald's.  We had to go to a second one because the first one we went to had run out!  It wasn't surprising because half of the clientele in that McDonald's was wearing green.

Right before bed, during a thunderstorm, we saw Notting Hill.  I actually missed the last 15 minutes of it or so because lightning flickered the power at the farm twice.  It didn't rain terribly.  Just enough to get the trees to sprout the next day.