Rainy Saturday randomness

We're terrible at being lazy. We're taking today to just chill and relax- it's absolutely pouring drenching rain, so inside sounds better than the wine festival we were planning on making it to. So far instead we've slept in (got up at 8:30), made strawberry jam (yum), made cookies (yum), made hummus (yum), cleaned the house, watered the plants, Jim's working on a piece to sell at a silent auction, walked the dog twice, created a menu for Easter (yum), finished two loads of laundry...

Butter almond cookies with strawberry jam (and strawberry jam)

Remember those tiny little seedlings? Well, they grew faster than I thought they would, and now they're way past ready to plant, but it's not warm enough yet, and they're starting to flower....

Bowl o' deliciousness

In other news, a bear tried to break into Jim's car! We had put the trash in there to take to the dump since we don't have trash pick-up, but I guess we should have taken it earlier....

Bears should wipe their paws before crawling all over the truck...

We also caught the biggest spider ever! It was in my laptop bag. Hard to tell, but the body is almost an inch long.

We haven't shown a picture of Guinners in a while - he's still a giant cuddler.

Plus, he's shedding up a storm

Our friend D visited- poor girl, we thought we were going on a "short hike" but it was a 7 mile trek - straight downhill for three and a half miles, and then straight uphill for three and a half miles. But the view was totally worth it! This is Overlook Falls in Shenandoah National Park.

Overlook Falls from the top...

Gorgeous and crazy lichens...

We came up into a cloud. It was neat.