It's Almost Spring!

It seemed appropriate to put up my new header and colors now, since Spring is set to arrive at about 2 am in the morning Central Standard Time. Although going by the temperatures on Wednesday and overnight into Thursday you can't really tell that it's supposed to be Spring here. It didn't make it above 50ºF today and it's only 37ºF right now at midnight.

If this Spring is typical for past Springs in Northeast Arkansas we'll still have quite a bit of cold weather yet, and maybe even some more snow. The usual last frost here is April 15th but it's not unheard of for us to have frost even later. April 15th is just the average last frost.

Just to keep things interesting we'll probably have some hot weather along with our cold weather, and it's not unusual for us to have both the hot weather and cold weather the same day, with some storms and tornadoes somewhere in the middle of the hot/cold war for dominance.

Ah, Spring in Arkansas! One thing about it, it's never boring.Here's a picture from my archives that I've posted before. It's from Easter 1973, I think. That's my sister DONNA, holding her son Frankie, my sister CECIL and me. If I'm right about the year, and I think I am, Cecil is 8 here and I'm 9 years old.

Sorry for the poor picture quality but this picture was developed in August of 1974, so you do the math. And my family was notorious for their procrastination in getting pictures developed so that's the reason for the discrepancy in the date the picture was made and when it was actually developed.

Dig those snazzy white knee socks and the sleeveless jumpsuits! We were stylin' now, let me tell you. Note Donna's updo. She had her hair fixed nearly every week. And she worked in a Singer wood working factory! My how things have changed.

Notice the hen in the right background? That was a particular favorite of Cecil's and she named her Penny. As in, "Henny Penny", I suppose.

Memories, Memories......I had asked AMY @ SPLIT DECISIONZ for some advice on changing my blog to a 3 column template because I had thought about adding BlogHer ads to my blog, but decided against it. I even learned how to code my template for 3 columns and have a test template ready to use, but after some research of the financial side of it I found that I can't legally put the BlogHer ads on my blog because they report what they pay you to Soc*ial Sec*urity.

Now for most people that's not a problem, but since I'm legally disabled and drawing disability, any earned income is counted against me. I'd end up worse off rather than better, so while I'm sure it's a good source of a little extra income for some, it's not for me. I had thought they might pay it into a Pay*Pal account and then I could use it to donate to needy bloggers and such, but apparently not. And I so hoped I could get a little extra spending money from my blog to help others, but it didn't work out for me.

I'll keep my 3 column template though because I still might use it sometime later down the road, or someone else might want a copy of it.Lamar's family is having a reunion this weekend and I have Emmy all day on Thursday and then on Friday afternoon, plus we'll be performing our Easter play at church on Saturday night and again on Sunday evening, so the next several days are going to be busy for me. Lamar has family coming in from Texas and Michigan, among other places, and some we haven't seen in several years.

I have to cook something for the reunion potluck on Saturday and I think I'm taking MY CROCKPOT CHICKEN AND DRESSING. As of this moment I have no idea about Sunday Dinner but I'll do my best to post Saturday night. Hopefully by then I should have a fairly good idea about my plans and/or menu.I've got to get up with Emmy in the morning so I'll post this and try to get in bed at a reasonable hour. That's hard for this night owl to do!

Y'all have a great rest of your week, and Happy Easter!