Second Day of Spring

No school today due to snow!

How to Make Enough Potato Salad to Feed the Entire Cast & Crew...

It is Tech Week for the cast and crew of the Spring Musical - meaning the kids are staying late every night to run through the entire play with lights, sounds, costumes and make up.  The parents are bringing in food for everyone.  Last night was soup night.  Tonight was sloppy joes.  I was tagged to bring in potato salad - enough for 50 people, but I never made that much before!

So, here's what you do:  Peel and chop 10 lbs of potatoes and hard boil a dozen eggs.  Chop 2 onions and one bunch of celery.  Mix it all together with 1 1/2 jars of mayo, and a bunch of other stuff.

To make a huge mess on the way home from rehearsal, stick the warped Tupperware bowl with its ill fitting lid containing the remaining potato salad in the back of the car.  When you arrive home, you will find the back of the car nicely smeared with potato salad.

Thank goodness for uber washable Subarus!

The show starts Thursday night...hooray!

Still Not Spring

It is snowing again today.  Nothing is accumulating, but it is still disappointing after experiencing a couple of weeks of mild, Spring-like weather.

I started seeds for my garden a bit later than usual, but already some of them are coming up!  That at least is encouraging!

In the meantime, I spent some more time working in the wood shop with my dad.  I can't say that everything is going smoothly, although it is going well.  I have had to re-do several pieces, some of them a couple of times.  I will consider it a success if I end up with a box that open, closes, and plays music, AND still have all of my fingers.



This is the outside of the music box, made of walnut,
with bottom trim of oak



This bottom-less box is made of oak, and it will slide
 inside the decorative box.  The groove will hold
 a piece of protective glass, so that the works of the
music box can be observed.

This is the lid - also walnut with oak trim.



This weekend is L's last Basketball game - yet another sign that Winter is almost over.

I must close for now and go collect sap from the Maple trees.  It is Maple Sugaring time, and my dad has already given us about 6 bottles of Poplar Ridge Maple Syrup - delicious!