Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

Weekend Coffee Share

Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing? Yesterday I had labs done to check sugar, cholesterol & all that stuff. Now I wait till next week for the consult to get the details. I wore a glucose monitor for a couple months & changed my whole way of eating in attempts to get those numbers down to a more acceptable range. Kevin mowed the grass for the 1st time of the season & planted spinach in the garden. One tiny asparagus has popped up. All the hens seem to be laying again just in time for the extra eggs needed for egg dying & egg salad & deviled eggs. Through the winter we were getting about half as many eggs. We took the side-by-side out for a ride & things didn't go as good as it should have. Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & I'll tell you if we caught any fish this week, about window shopping & what happened to the side-by-side. Then I'm heading out to help prepare for Easter dinner & egg hunt that's happening next weekend. 

Picnic lunch during trail ride. Of course I took
sardines in mustard sauce.

This week's fish meal came from
Captain D's. We tried the
Trio Sampler. 

We were out on the lake fishing before the sun came up. I didn't get a bite the whole time, but it was an enjoyable morning on the lake.  We saw geese, a squirrel, some turtles & some other interesting things to look at.

Look at all that mistletoe. 

Kevin got a bite or 2 but
didn't catch anything.

The water temperature was 
about 52 degrees. That's too cold
for the fish to bite good
apparently.

  

Boat hair, letting the wind do the styling.

We ran over to Home Depot to look at paneling & insulation for the trailer camper transformation & also to see if they had camper windows & lights.

We thought we liked this paneling
for the ceiling the best. 

They had that one piece of board
insulation Kevin thought we
would need but as you can see,
it was damaged.

We took a gander around out in the
garden section. There were so many
 fresh beautiful blooms.

We took the side-by-side out for our 1st ride in it. It overheated right off due to the cooling fan not kicking on when it was supposed to. We were able to continue the ride, though had to stop several times to let the radiator cool down. The fan worked sometimes then sometimes it didn't work. Kevin dug a couple messes of ramps. I looked for wildflowers in bloom.

 

Ramps

That's not supposed to happen. See the 
water spewing out of the red cap?

Trout Lily

  

Trillium

Kevin enjoys the rough places.
Me, not so much.

We rode along with Kevin's Uncle. Ours
is a Polaris. His is a Honda.

We love bubbles!

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been?