NCAA Men’s Basketball Champions … UCONN … Connecticut Huskies 76, San Diego State Aztecs 59. 5th championship for the Huskies … San Diego State has never won the championship. There’s always next year…
Weather forecast for Bladen … Mostly cloudy today, then gradually sunny, with a high near 83. Patchy fog after 5 a.m. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 61. Wednesday, patchy fog before 9 a.m. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 87, wind gusts in the 15 mph range. High Thursday near 86 … High Friday, 66 and a 50% chance of rain…
Early forecast for Easter Sunday … Mostly cloudy, with a high near 66 and a 30% chance of rain. Hopefully, not enough rain to cancel Easter egg hunts…
Remember early Easter egg hunts, a long time ago … After boiling the eggs, color them with regular crayons … our parents would hide them, mostly in the yard, around the house.
Easter Sunday meant a feast at our house and a tough time for one hen or rooster … Many times we were at our granddad’s with aunt’s & uncles & cousins … noontime at one grannys and with the others at suppertime…
I often think about planting time in the 1950s and ’60s … no tractors … one horse and one mule. One tall pole deep in the field, make a ridge, to plant the crop … head toward the pole, hopefully in a straight line … One row at a time…
One more thought from yesteryear … I thought the mailman was provided a new vehicle every year … I thought I wanted to do that when I grew up. Mr. Johnny Mercer was our mailman in rural Bladenboro for many years. Always neatly dressed, and driving a new Ford. Years later I discovered he provided the auto … compensated of course…
I enjoy watching the many different kinds of trees behind our house this time of year … Just about every shade of green you can think of … New life…
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” Anne Lamott
“A good way to overcome stress is to help others out of theirs.” Dada J.P. Vaswani, Indian spiritual leader
“Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.” Robert Eliot
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