Sunday Dinner, April 18, 2010

I made homemade egg salad for supper tonight, and for some reason I'm not feeling all that ambitious about Sunday Dinner with my belly full of egg salad sandwiches, not to mention the pot of Earl Grey tea I've almost finished.

Anybody else not that enthused about cooking when you're not hungry? Or is it just me?

Nevertheless, the preparations for Sunday Dinner must proceed. And when I said "cooking" in the previous paragraph I may have overstated the matter just a bit, since I'm not exactly cooking tonight.

It might help if I explain. As they've done several times over the last year or so, my sisters Ducky and Cecil bought a couple of smoked Boston butt pork roasts a couple of weeks ago and they've been in my freezer. We had discussed that we might have pork barbecue sandwiches for last Sunday's dinner, but we ended up going out to eat instead.

So, this week we're having the pork barbecue sandwiches. I've already thawed one of the Boston butts and I'm going to slice it thinly and put it in a foil-covered pan and refrigerate it overnight. When we get home from church tomorrow afternoon, I'll place the sliced meat in the oven to heat while we get the table set and get ready to eat.

We usually pick up some barbecue sauce, hamburger buns and cole slaw to assemble our sandwiches. Kentucky*Fried*Chicken has pretty good slaw so a lot of times we get our slaw there on the way home from church, especially when I don't have any cabbage, as is the case at the present. I usually have cabbage on hand, but for some reason I didn't get any when I bought groceries this time.

What are you having for Sunday Dinner this week? Share your plans/menu in the comments if you'd like.We've had dry, sunny weather this past week, but much warmer than average for this time of year. A couple of days it almost reached 90F, which is pretty hot for mid-April here in Northeast Arkansas.

But overnight Friday into Saturday a cold front has pushed through and dropped the temperature 20 degrees, which is much more to my liking. Our high today was only 68F and the night time temps are also correspondingly lower.

We generally have a cool snap around this time every year, and many people call this "Dogwood Winter" since the dogwoods are blooming around the same time each Spring.

In a few weeks we should have another cool snap, sometime around Mother's Day. It's generally the week before, the week of, or the week after Mother's Day, and we call that one Blackberry Winter. As you might gather, the wild blackberries bloom during that time period, thus the reason for the name of that cool spell.

In the Fall we also have Indian Summer, but I suppose most people are familiar with that one.

I wonder, wherever you live in the world, are there names for cool or warm changes in your weather like we have here, or is this just another oddity of us Southerners?Our pastor's wife took this pic on Easter Sunday of Cecil, me and Ducky. Sue had already went home or she'd have been in the photo as well. Since Emmy and Jason were at his Mom's for Easter and Jessica was at work, I didn't get any pics of them this year. Maybe next year will be better for Easter photos.




It's nearly 9 pm and I still have to slice my pork roast, study my church lessons and take my shower, so I'd better get busy.

Y'all have a beautiful Lord's Day. May God meet all your needs, and may you have enough to share is my wish and my prayer for each of you, dear family and friends.