Good morning, ladies! 53 degrees and rain today.
Tonight is First Thursday Bee but I'm going to skip it and go to church services instead.
Jean, leeks are rather expensive where I live so I usually end up substituting a Vidallia onion instead. That was a ton of coins to count! Did you have to wrap them before going to the bank? I sometimes think its a rip off that getting my teeth cleaned costs me more than my well women physical at the docs office. Do you remember way back when there weren't hygenists and the dentist did the actual cleaning?
Maggie, I just read the US is now the fattest nation in the world. The Asian countries as the leanest. Maybe we should eat like they do. I love the smell of lilacs and hyacinths in the spring. The Daffodil Festival was March 24. They are all gone now. My rose bush is full of buds. I hope the chilly weather doesn't kill them. My next door neighbor brought me a basket of spring lettuces yesterday afternoon. She grows them in window boxes.
Faye, I hope you had a good time with your sister yesterday. We missed you.
Have a wonderful day!
GOOD MORNING MAGNOLIAS 
Dinner is planned so that will be easy for sure. I am going to finish up a building this day and then get started on another. I am not sure what I will be making next.
Yes, I have heard that we are the fattest nation. The asian countries eat a lot of fish without all that nice crisp breading that we like over here. Also they use a lot of veggies in stir fry dishes. The recipes in my wok cookbook tend to have much lower points+ values than the ones in my other books.
Your growing season started much earlier than ours has.
I'll go to the other store tomorrow morning to pick up my meat and whatever I forgot today. We have church tonight; Bob is singing and the education director has created a last supper play every year, which she does every year.
because she doesn't work on Fridays, has a very simple office set up and older equipment. She does have an assistant but think she trained her because she just holds the tools or makes notes. There are two tulip festivals in May, one north and one quite a ways south of us; both are afraid there won't be any tulips left. Our nights have cooled way down into the lower 40s again. My furnace is still running off and on. I'm glad we don't have to roll our coins although we usually don't have a whole lot.
Maui still has the tourists but it is a much more relaxed atmosphere. Some day we would like to visit the island closest to Maui but can't think of the name right now. 
The sun is shining so it looks warmer than it is. I need to pick up the rest of my Easter dinner food and go to the library this morning before the crazy Friday crowd hits the streets.
They did have 1 out of multiple express lanes open, and the people ahead of me could all count 
so I was in and out pretty quickly.
It's close to a window so I think he keeps track of the neighbor's yard from his perch. How soon are you thinking about a Texas move? I didn't realize you planned to downsize and move back into a motorhome. 
There are a few other appliances I will want to keep also but many of others will be sold at yard sales starting this summer. I will have a lot of decisions to make for sure. I have a wonderful small wooden table I use in the kitchen that I will keep to put in that room with a couple of the chairs that go with it since the lady of the house wants to buy my victorian dining set which would actually be a bit much to put in that room. I will be happy that she has it. I will put a bookcase in there with my colllection of cookbooks. 
GOOD AFTERNOON MAGNOLIAS 
I am heading off to bed. See you tomorrow! 
It's a sunny windy day in my corner of the world; furnace is humming along right now. The weatherman says it is going to rain the last 4 days of the week. I spent an intersting morning at church. I was the first one there, then the other gal who counts came -- no secretary, no custodian, and no program director. So we counted, balanced, and I used the secretary's computer to post since it is right by the phone. The pastor finally came in and said, "I thought the office was closed today!" Well, duh, it said as much on the weekly calendar printed in yesterdays bulletin . . . but guess who didn't look at the calendar?! I stopped by the gift shop on my way home, and have that deposit ready to go tomorrow. I have to go into the main bank, rather than the drive through, since I need to order checks. I should vacuum but think that will be on my tomorrow "to do" list.
A maintain is A-OK in my book!