3/27/2016

Weekly Update 3/27/2016

HAPPY EASTER

This was a busier week. And my allergies seemed to get a little better through the week. I spend a couple of days working on the egg tree that is the craft project for Easter this year. Some of the creativity was fine; some not so good (like when my blue egg exploded as I was trying to dye it - what a mess!). Overall, I think it's ok. I hung my poor little decorated eggs on the tree and waited until Sunday when the others will bring theirs. It took a lot of time to make this craft, but it may be the last one we do. 

painting the branches

blowing the eggs

 

The Lunch Bunch met at a new Italian Restaurant, Bella Napoli. It's owned by the same people who own Little Italy on Wilmington Island. I had a very very good penne with vodka sauce and chicken that was really good. 

there was a large group this time

 

In the afternoon, I went out to Fort Pulaski because there was supposed to be a tour for Coastal Museum Association members. When I got there, I was the only one! I had a tour all to myself, and it was great. I didn't learn a lot, but because it was only the ranger and me, we took a golf cart and rode around the site, to some places along the river that I haven't seen in a long time. It was great. 

I loved the color on the tree near the fort

 

Friday was very busy. I went to DH in the morning to help give tours to bus loads of 5th graders who were visiting. In the afternoon, during my regular tours, there were busloads of adult tourists coming through, so my tour was all out of order as I tried to avoid the other tours. It was difficult, but hey, I can do this! By the time I got to The 90, I was so-o-o ready for a drink! Not only was I exhausted from the long, harried DH day, but it had been a while since I've had a drink since I've been taking so much allergy medication. Never has a key lime martini tasted so good! 

kids in the garden and on the porch at DH while the school bus waits on Habersham St

Lisa, me, Donna, Liz & Kay at The 90

 

My poor little azalea plant, that I'd purchased for the front of my condo two years ago, is making a comeback! Last year, someone cut it (not pruned for better growth, but cut to kill) and the purple plant (I don't know what it is) is taking over. So, after one blooming season, my plant was gone. What a surprise this year when I saw a blossom! 

2014

 

2016

close up

Since Dave and Lisa are moving back to UK next week, I had asked if there was any museum that they had wanted to visit in Savannah that they had never seen. They both agreed that they wished they had visited Pinpoint. Well, how lucky is this? I'm a member and could get us in for free! So, we met there on Saturday afternoon and toured the crab and oyster factory that made up a big part of the African-American community known as Pinpoint. It was a cloudy day, but it was interesting to see the factory and hear the history. We got in for free, they gave candy kisses and lollipops on the tour, and Lisa won a copy of the Clarence Thomas biography My Grandfather's Son. We did, however, have to pay for our dinner at Tequila Town. 

Dave, me and Lisa at Pinpoint

 

It always happens - Sunday was my turn to open BC but the morning volunteers didn't show. So there I was, with no one to replace me, and company coming for dinner in less than 3 hours. So, I called the volunteer coordinator and explained that I was going to to lock the visitors center up and leave because I just couldn't do the morning shift. Luckily, the afternoon volunteer has keys to the visitors center, so she could unlock, spend the afternoon handing out the maps and then lock up again. But, the one time ever when I had something to do and couldn't fill in was today.

Lisa, Dave and Donna all arrived in the early afternoon. They proudly hung their craft Easter eggs on the tree I had sweat bullets over earlier in the week. I thought it looked great. We sat down to eat the ham dinner I had prepared, and we were enjoying each others company when there was a loud crash. The egg tree had fallen! All our hard work was lying spread all over the floor! I guess since this is likely to be the last craft we ever do, it went out with a bang!

a very attractive, creative egg tree...

...that just wasn't meant to be

but dinner was pretty good