T Stands for Last Week and Signs of Spring

 Hi everyone. And hello to all of the ladies stopping by for T this week also. 👋

     Our weather here has definitely gotten spring-like.  Well, New Hampshire spring-like. I don't have any spring bulbs popping up yet, but the snow is all gone, the mud is slightly drying out, and temperatures have been above 40 degrees F (4.4 degrees C) most days. It's exciting to see spring arrive so early because I'm someone who has had it with winter by March. 

     But since March and April aren't over yet, I'm not holding my breath the snow is over for the year yet either. But I'm hoping. 😏

    Last week I went for a couple of beach walks. One day it was cloudy and cold on the beach, the other day it was sunny and beautiful.

As soon as I let Miss Maddie off leash (the beach was empty as you can probably see in the photo), she went running for the water, and Mr. Pete followed along.

This rock exposed at low tide was covered with  rock-weed. It's not the prettiest of algae, but I thought it made an interesting texture in my photo.

For my birthday last Monday I went out for soup and an ice cream sundae with a couple of girlfriends. 

    My friends told our waitress I needed more than 6 cherries on my sundae. I had to explain to the waitress how the last time (back last summer) when I had a sundae at this restaurant, my husband had moaned how bad his day was going. The waitress had given him 6 cherries and only given me 1. This time we had a good laugh when our waitress returned and announced she had to beat the 6 and that she had given me 9 cherries. The photo shows 8 of them since one had slipped down on the side out of view. I think since she got a bit carried away with the cherries that she skimped a bit on the walnuts, but oh well. 😏

    Another day last week  I was at Target and found these plain wooden eggs in the dollar section. I decided to get some to decorate.

       At first I painted them, and then I decorated them. The tape (in this next photo) is not part of the decoration. I was using it so I could paint part of the egg a different color and have a more or less straight and distinct line between the 2 colors.

     I'm including this photo (above) as it is my ticket for T this week over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog. Some days for lunch I have a  protein shake.  Although I don't drink hot coffee, I love coffee flavoring. That's a coffee protein shake with a bit of ice in my glass. 

I haven't quite finished decorating the eggs, but once they are done, I will share them.

     One spring thing that hasn't happened in my area yet is ice out. There was hardly  any ice this winter.  Ice in was not until February, which is very very late. But as of this past weekend there was still some hanging on in all the lakes. We walked into my mother-in-law's home this past Saturday, and that's where I took this photo. 

    It's unusual for there to be open water at this time in March. Usually ice out is usually sometime in April, so this year it will be early, and probably it will even happen this week  with the wind wind or more warm weather in the forecast.

That's all for me this week.

    I will be missing T next week  since I'm heading out on a 10 day long planned and twice a postponed trip to Greece with a couple of girlfriends. This is our "retirement celebration" trip that took a while to happen between COVID and a few other life events.   I am sure I will have lots of stories  when I get back home.

   "See" you later this month. Have a great T day and the next couple of weeks.