Easter 2009

Happy Easter everyone. We hope your Easter was a good one, spent with family and friends. The weather is warming up, and Michelle bought some great plants the other day, including 2 grape vines. We hope to have a small harvest in the fall. We can see the tops of the garden boxes again, so we expect to see some spring flowers soon. We planted a ton of fall bulbs last October and early November.



Since most of the snow is melted now, we celebrated by firing up the cheap BBQ. Had to hunt down some charcoal first, then off to the store for a can of scout water.

There is nothing quite like a big juicy burger hot off the grill with all the trimmings: great cheese, crisp lettuce, fresh tomato, green chili. And what goes better with burgers than great chips? Nothing. Here is "Charlie's Chips"


Bend...

and Snap!

"Please let me go home now. I'm starving."

One of our favorite picture spots in town. This place over looks the river. At the bottom of this hill is one of the golf courses in town. With the warm weather forecast for this week, perhaps the river will break up by next weekend.

Of course, by Warm weather we mean above freezing. It was 45 yesterday, and seems like 100 motorcycles were roaring around town.

This is our version of the Beatles Abbey Road.

Well, Easter is the season for the Annual Simpson Family Midnight Easter Egg Hunt. This year Joseph and Samuel were very helpful. They chose what kind of candy to put in the plastic eggs to be hidden. They bought the candy and stuffed the eggs. They hid the eggs, and then they found most of them without help. Being rather large boys, they do get inventive with the hiding places.

The cars are always favorites hiding places.

But this year, this was the best. That egg is almost 8 feet off the ground. You have to jump off a big rock (landscape decoration) to get to it.