Thur. April 4, 2013 We've had a steady rain for the past couple of days! I'm eager to walk outside and see everything greening up. It is supposed to be warmer and sunny by this afternoon. If the temperatures cooperate, this weekend (Fri, Sat.) may be good days to hunt morrel mushrooms! I've finshed reading a good book as part of a "Let's Talk About It" book club sponsored by the Watonga Library and OK Humanities Council. Our local library is absolutely FABULOUS about getting and putting together programs here, both for children and for adults. Tonight's book for discussion is "A Homemade Life" by an Oklahoma writer, Molly Wizenberg. I was surprised at how easy it was to read, and the recipes in it are a bonus. In fact, I'm going to make one of the breakfast recipes for our B&B Guests this weekend. It is a little bit like a recipe from Andy's family called "German pancakes" (which, ironically, I had planned to make this weekend had I not found this new recipe), but it is called "Dutch Baby Pancakes". In the book, there's a short family story surrounding every recipe. As I've mentioned before, I don't think a reader of this can post a "comment" if they don't have a google or gmail email address. If you try to post and cannot, please post a comment on the Chaparral Retreat facebook page, or send an email to "phoenixcir@yahoo.com". I've been lax in keeping up on the blog mostly because I didn't think anyone was looking at it, but have received a few messages that friends are reading but can't leave a "comment" here. Let me know if you are reading--that will encourage me to continue writing. It's a new Spring and I am crawling out of the winter cave, so I plan on posting more to this blog.