I had my usual: Snow Crab Legs with Walt's Favorite Shrimp (that's their battered and fried shrimp), French Fries, Caesar Salad, and Lemonade. Oh, and one Cheddar Bay Biscuit. No dessert, since I was extremely satisfied with what I had to eat lol.

I do love The Pioneer Woman and have all of her cookbooks and watch her on Food Network with mum. It reminded me of her recipe, too.

I've been Winter Sowing seeds for the past 4 or 5 years and it's always a success (only a few don't sprout for me usually). I peeked in some of the containers today and I see one or two seeds just beginning to germinate. Luckily, I only have a few annuals planted and they haven't even sprouted yet.

Brad AKA Moonwolf

Happy, happy Birthday, Moonwolf!

Sally

Happy Birthday Brad!

I hope dad picked up the tab for your birthday dinner. Have a good one.

Thank you, everyone!

The big day isn't until next Friday, but I am really looking forward to it! The snow's still lingering around, but it was melting earlier. I think by tomorrow, it should be pretty much gone since it's supposed to get about 50 degrees or so.

Iced tea and appetizers are made for tomorrow's workday. Tonight, we had Domino's for supper and was it ever good!

Brad AKA Moonwolf

25 years old? Man! that's old!

100 years ago, 25 was considered middle aged.

Watch out for midlife crisis. LOL!

dcarch

dcarch, LOL! I would've been old and not considered marriage material 100 years ago. I know unmarried women were called "spinsters". I don't think there was such a word for a man who was unmarried and middle aged. "Bachelor" is the only word that comes to mind.

Doing a lot of reflecting and contemplating lately. I have a lot to look forward to in this life and I hope I'm here for a long, long time.

When dad and I went out to eat the other day and I was doing some shopping, I found an early birthday present for my mum: a copy of the 1965 Cinderella (Rogers and Hammerstein's) with Lesley Ann Warren, Stuart Damon, Ginger Rogers, Walter Pigeon, Celeste Holm, etc., on DVD. She even cried a little when I showed it to her. It's my favorite live-action version of it and first saw it on The Disney Channel when I was a kid back in the 90's. I do love the songs (10 Minutes Ago, The Prince Is Giving A Ball, and others).

Brad AKA Moonwolf

This is the Cinderella (from 1954) that I grew up with, and perhaps your mother is familiar with this book as well. Note that on the last page shown here they are "dining" without food! As a child, I thought that Cinderella's gold dress was the most beautiful dress I had ever seen. I have never seen the live-action version, but now I am intrigued.

I'm going to start sowing seeds myself as well, but I had to wait until we got back from vacation, as I was afraid young plants would die from heat and lack of water while we were away the past ten days. I grow herbs and chilies in pots (due to poor soil in my back yard), and some of the chili plants survived while I was gone, but a couple of them dried up. I might need to figure out a way to put them on a drip watering system, as the sprinklers do not reach them.

What are you going to grow? I do not grow as much as I used to, but I still plant chilies, basil, and cilantro every years, and sometimes parsley, tomatoes, and dill. Recently I discovered Gourmet Garden herbs in a tube, and I bought dill, lemon grass, and cilantro, to use for emergencies. I have lemon grass in my yard, and it is a perennial, but the lemon grass in a tube is easier to use, and I do not have to remove tough lemon grass stems.

Hope you have a great birthday next week - my brother turned 50 this week while we were in Costa Rica, and so you are just about half his age (at this time). Nice to have a birthday at the beginning of spring!

Lars

Lars, that is a beautifully illustrated book! I love her dress, also! There are several live-action adaptations of Cinderella, but this is one of the more famous ones (it was adapted 3 times for television), and now Disney has released their live-action remake (I LOVE her dress in that, too; I've only seen the trailers for it).

I usually sow flowers, but I've also done herbs. This year, I'm even trying magnolias (an unknown white variety from a fellow online gardener's garden) and lilacs (it's a species called Late Lilac) from seed. We just usually buy our veggie plants (tomatoes and cukes). Not sure if we'll be growing veggies this year, though. They didn't do too well last summer.

Happy Birthday to your brother! Costa Rica sounds nice. I love having an early spring birthday. Everything starts to come alive again :).

Brad AKA Moonwolf