Tinker Art: Having Cake and Eating It Too

Some images from Mother's Day - thereby delaying the farm report for at least one more day. There were lots of sweet surprises in store for me throughout the day - a pretty rosy corsage the girls had made for me themselves (they did a better job wiring and wrapping the stems, than I think I would have), fun reading material, and more...

Brunch at one of my favorite places...where I devoured the lightest, fluffiest omelette - filled with spinach, mushroom and montery jack cheese, nnnn - and surprise, surprise - there was dessert too - not one of these juicy little fruit tarts, that I was eyeing on the way in...

something even better (well, maybe not for my waistline -

but hey, Mother's Day only comes around once a year)

Lemon cake, with a lemon-y cream cheese frosting - if summer lemonade married a spring cupcake, I'm pretty sure their sweettart off-spring would taste just like this cake...

I realize that sentence doesn't make a lot of sense...but it's the best I can do, at the moment.

Also, there were rooster sugar cookies, sprinkled with green sugar - but those went home with a couple of little girls, a special treat for the next day.

It was a good thing we didn't have this other two-tier cake with fishy cookies, that was on display there - or we'd have really been swimming in calories...

As it was, we had to walk off the meal a little bit, with some

windowshopping, afterwards...

That's where I found this guy - who reminded me of Harvey.

I've always liked Harvey...

Later on, my other girl treated me to a movie. It was a lot of fun to spend time with her, and the movie was much funnier than I had thought it would be. Afterwards there was the added gift of coming home to find that she'd enlisted her guy friend to help my guy, in making some much needed plumbing repairs while we were out - which was a much sweeter surprise than you might think :-)

Oh, and I almost forgot - as if I weren't feeling spoiled enough this year (I think this is the most we've ever done for Mother's Day!), the icing on the cake was being treated to a shopping trip at my favorite nursery (you have to love a nursery that has a koi pond) that was having a sale...and we came home with loads...wagonloads :) - of plants, that is...

Well, smallish wagon loads - but still wagon loads -

they almost filled the back of our wagon, anyway...we always seem to go a little wild, when it comes to the plants...but we have a hillside that eats them. I've already planted some new little rosemary sprigs, but they are barely a drop in the bucket for this hill. Some people might call it a 'bank,' rather than a hill - but then they haven't tried to plant on it, while trying not to slide down 20 feet to the road. We could use a bank to help fund its upkeep. We've been trying to fill it in with something other than crabgrass for ages now...but it's a magic hill. The more plants you put on it, the bigger it gets...and there are still the side yards of the driveway that are rather crabby - they want some plants too...

So can you guess what I've been doing all week? And I'm not done, yet. Still digging out the aptly named crabgrass (it makes me crabby, anyway), and the dry, woody wishbones leftover from the hill's previous veggie meals, to make room for some of these...who will hopefully fare better than their predecessors.

If you're looking for me, I'm probably in the garden - which is code for 'balancing on the side of the hill with a shovel' -

-- praying for cooler weather.

At least it's helping me wear off all that cake...

Comments

Sounds like you had a wonderful time. And with icing on it too!

Hope your hill appreciates all this attention, plants and sheer expense too.

Posted by: Caroline | May 16, 2008 at 12:35 PM

The lemon cake sounds yummy. Lemon is so refreshing. You had a really great Mother's Day! Have you got all those plants in the ground yet? We're expecting 102º this weekend!!

Posted by: Janet | May 16, 2008 at 05:09 PM

I've got a hilly garden, too, but have never really set about planting up the slope with anything more than the odd shrub. I have visions of terracing it (very grand term for what I have in mind). Sometime. Sometime. Glad you had such a pleasant Mothers' day

Posted by: Imelda / GreenishLady | May 16, 2008 at 05:39 PM