Sunday Musings . . . . April 18

We've spent this morning in the garden doing some fertilizing and weeding so this Sunday post isn't as early as I would like it... perhaps I should get in to the habit of writing it out late Saturday night so it's ready to go?

Anyway, here we are week 2 of Sunday Musings. I hope this turns out to be a regular post from me so I can catch up with the week. Remember last Sunday we were celebrating mom-in-law's birthday and I was making a yummy Mexican type meal. Well I will reveal now that I made Pioneer Woman's Spicy Pulled Pork and I served it with warm tortillas and Mexican rice. For appetizers I also made PW's pico de gallo and guacamole and made Margaritas for everyone too. I'll be sharing the recipes on Tuesday for my PW post, so no pictures of that right now I'm afraid. But here are a few pics I took. . .

I cheated with dessert and bought a yummy chocolate cake (you can see above), it had malted balls on top (what we call Maltesers in England) and a delicious velvet frosting. Not sure what velvet frosting is actually, I just know it was deliciously smooth and chocolaty, and we ALL loved it.

This is the beautiful lace shawl I hand knit for mil (I told you she was special) ;-) And she also opened some of her favorite perfume 'J'Adore' by Dior. I have to tell you since, smelling this in Macy's when I bought it I wouldn't mind adding it to my Christmas wish list either - it's gorgeous.

I told Jason to go stand with his Mom to take a picture but the only one I got was of him 'having a sniff'!!!

I got my hair cut this week! That's not usually an event worth mentioning, but I haven't had it styled in over a year. I've had a trim from someone (not my regular hairdresser who I've used for years) and I've cut a few inches off here and there over the past year. My new profile picture shows how long it was, and I do like the look of my hair in that picture, but you know how it is... it never looks like that every day, usually it's pulled back in a pony tail when it gets that long. So, I had it restyled back to how it was last Summer and I tried to take a photo for you!

This was the best of about 50 pictures taken in the bathroom mirror!

I had a night out this week, to my regular monthly book club meeting. I love this club and this 'bunch of women' who to be honest I only see once a month as we gather to discuss our book! We were reading Atonement this month but I only got half way through the book and couldn't renew it at the library so I borrowed the movie from a friend and watched it (on my own I might add, Jason wasn't too interested in seeing it) last Friday night. I was expecting the movie to be really depressing because the friend that I borrowed it from said it was, but I found it more sad than depressing. It was quite an interesting story line. I won't go in to what it was about in case I spoil the story or give too much away.

This month we are reading 'The Art of Racing in The Rain' by Garth Stein. Has anyone read this book? I've it's really good but will make you cry too!

If you don't already know I am trying to update our 'garden blog' on a weekly basis too. I posted 'week 2' yesterday. You can CLICK HERE if you'd like to go take a look and see what's growing. And the link is now on my right side bar. Hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday. Ours isn't over yet and I'm looking forward to a relaxing evening in front of the TV.