April 8 - Happy Easter

The boys started their refresher course with swimming lessons. Hurricane screams the whole time. He is not a fan at all! Underfoot really likes the lessons and thrives with new challenges. He is working on opening his eyes while swimming. The instructor holds up several fingers under water and Underfoot has to report how many she was holding out for him to see.

Early in the week I decided to try an experiment. I took a 1 gallon plastic bucket (the kind you get when you buy cheap ice cream in bulk) and wrote on the lid ''Save the Planet- Recycle used coffee grounds and filter'' I then left the bucket at the coffee station at work. Each evening I swapped out the filled bucket with a fresh, clean, (empty!) bucket. I've come home with three buckets full of wonderful coffee grounds. They have promptly been assimilated into my compost pile. The result is a noticeable difference in the smell of the compost- it is not nearly as potent as it was just a few days ago. It is also growing much faster (because of all the grounds...)
Mama picked me up with the boys on Thursday evening after work. We headed up the Phoenix for the Mesa Temple Pageant. After the pageant we spent the night at my sister's house. Friday morning we left our boys with their cousins and headed to the temple. We were able to take some extra time at the temple because our boys were with my sister.

We came back to Tucson for swimming lessons and then to the house. We celebrated Passover with the traditional meal. Wendy invited two families from our congregation to join us. It was a lot of fun.

On Saturday we did all sorts of chores. Grocery shopping, Bountiful Baskets, cleaning house, budgeting, laundry, etc. We enjoyed a pot luck supper at a friends house. They put on an annual Easter Egg Hunt. It was lots of fun. The boys had a wonderful time. It was nice to visit with some friends we hadn't see in a while. We learned that one of our cherry trees is dead. It was likely dead when I planted it, as it had no growth on it whatsoever. It is unfortunate, but at least the other two are doing well. Hopefully I'll be able to get another planted either this fall or next year.

Mama got me a book entitled ''Hobby Farming''. It is very interesting. Hopefully someday we'll be able to have a little farm.

Be well.