Sunday Dinner, March 21, 2010

Did you get that clue? The bowl of soup on the Sunday Dinner graphic? Well, my job is done!

Oh, okay, I'll expound a little more on my Sunday Dinner menu this week. It's going to seem like a rerun from 3 weeks ago, and that's because it IS a rerun.

I'm making hamburger soup and cornbread for Sunday Dinner this week, for several reasons. For one thing it sounds good again, and for another, it's supposed to be rainy and sharply colder on Sunday.

Hot soup and cornbread just hits the spot when it's wet, cold and dreary, and it's easy enough to make and stretch to make more if necessary.

What are your plans for Sunday Dinner this week? Share your menu/plans in the comments if you'd like.The weather has been absolutely gorgeous here for the last few days. It's been in the upper 60'sF and partly cloudy and mild enough at night that I've left my windows open day and night. My daffodils are in full bloom, my flowering quince is bursting with blooms and the other trees and shrubs in the neighborhood are beginning to sprout tiny new leaves.

It's almost 10 pm on Saturday night and it's still 60F. The scent of newly mown grass is drifting in the open window beside my recliner, where I'm typing this blog post.

But......And there always seems to be a "but", now doesn't there? A winter storm system is moving into Arkansas now and will be here Sunday evening, bringing heavy rain and much colder temps ahead of the main system. Northwest Arkansas has heavy snow falling as I type this on Saturday night and is expected to have as much as a foot of snow.

After reaching nearly 70F on Saturday, our temps are supposed to fall all day on Sunday, bottoming out in the 30'sF and with the rain turning into snow for us on Sunday night. It's only supposed to be snow showers and it's not supposed to amount to any accumulation, but we all know what that means: not a thing.

Oh Spring, what a cruel joke you're playing on us! So warm and gorgeous now, and on Sunday you're pulling the rug out from under us with torrential rain, freezing cold and then snow.

Urg!

However, as a disclaimer, and knowing that most people disagree with me, I much prefer the cold weather to the miserable muggy insanely hot weather that's not too far in our future. Not that we get our druthers, as I well know.

Pffffttt.Some news regarding Jessica, Jason and Emmy; Jason and Jessica may be getting back together. They've been talking and doing some deep soul searching, and that's where their relationship stands right now.

I'm doing what I've done throughout their marriage, divorce and since then: being supportive, only offering advice when specifically asked for it, and just generally minding my own business otherwise.

I'll share more news as it develops and if/when Jessica okays it.I think that'll do it for this installment. Y'all have a blessed Lord's Day. May God meet all your needs, and may you have enough to share, dear family and friends.