On Friday morning, we awoke to this:
Yes, several inches of wet, heavy snow.
By yesterday, it was 70° and we were off to the garden center for some spring flowers.
Despite the warm temperatures, there is still a bit of snow on the ground. I’m sure it will be gone by noon since temperatures are expected in the 70’s again. It won’t stay this warm, of course, but hopefully we’re done with the snow!
It was a lovely weekend: dinner with friends on Friday night, a shopping trip to a McKenzie-Child warehouse sale with another friend, and dinner with family last night. In between, some appointments, sorting of clothes for the consignment shop, and time at the gym after several months away. McKenzie-Child has an annual Barn Sale which I’ve never attended, and the warehouse sale was something new. A friend texted me right before we left on our trip and asked if I were interested. I was, indeed. Although I have several pieces of their Courtly Check tinware, most of it is beyond my price range. Everything at the sale, however, was 50% off or more. I got this lovely pitcher which retails for $85 for $19. I know I’ll find lots of uses for it; it’s looking lovely in the dining room now. Not only was it a bargain, it was the only piece with this pattern that we saw.
Good things in the mail were rather sparse this week, but we did get one very nice package from The Great Courses. They were having a big sale, and Tracy wanted a course on genealogy. I picked up two sets of DVDs on the Bible. The New Testament is taught by Bart Erhman, and I was fortunate to hear him speak on Thursday evening at the University of Rochester’s Phi Beta Kappa lecture. He spoke about some of his findings while researching his latest book, Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior. Amazon describes him as a “renowned and controversial scholar,” and I understand why some might think his conclusions are controversial. I thought the research on memory was fascinating, and I have the book on hold at the library.
This week’s calendar is pretty packed with appointments, volunteer commitments, and lots of social events. I’ll have to work hard to find time for my daily reading, #The100DayProject, and my online class assignments.
Waving to Sian and the Monday Memo Makers. Hope you have a great week!
Friday was definitely nature’s mistake & I enjoyed Mother Nature’s apologize of a glorious weather weekend. She is forgiven.
I think this book, Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior, will be an amazing read, I will keep my eyes open for this. Interesting DVD’s, I like that they come with a guidebook.
Your newly purchased, at a tremendous bargain, vase is lovely & yes I am sure we will see it often over the summer 🙂
Happy week ahead.
Oh gosh snow! Not unheard of here that late but please not this year thank you very much. Interesting book
, I gues even the four gospels show how the same happenings can be reported differently. Lovely vase and those dried hydrangea heads look great in it.
Snow? Oh wow!
I think you have the perfect way to display those hydrangea now. And what a bargain. Win/win
That sounds like a very interesting book. Funny, TTO and I were talking this morning about how much of the history of Roman Law, which he is studying for exams at the moment, was created and written down by people who weren’t there at the beginning.
Me too, I agree that book sounds fascinating. You really must stop posting details of books that I’m going to want to read!
Commiserations on the late flurry. It’s great that you can buy plants already flowering for some instant colour and cheer. They look great. And congrats on that amazing bargain!
I love your pitcher Karen!
Your posts are always interesting!
xx
That really is a bargain – and your hydrangea heads look great against the dark background. Oh, more interesting books! We had a hot weekend here too, but without the preceding snow thankfully. Isn’t April such a changeable month?
No snow in these parts…yay! Glad yours was short-lived. The vase is gorgeous and I’ve not seen any hydrangea yet…usually a tad later in the spring for us. Books look oh so interesting…look forward to your take on them. You’ll get all your projects accomplished…I have no doubts. Now if it were I, then, yeah, doubts.
Cheers~
Love your bargain…..I’m hoping to go plant shopping at the weekend now that I’m home for a while to get them established! xx
Looks like some great new learning books! 🙂 Wow, that’s quite the extremes in weather for just a few days!
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