L’s big news

L had an interview at the University of Central Florida on Monday seeking admissions to their MBA program. She received an email almost immediately after that she got in! Yeaterday, she made it "official" by posting on Instagram. Now to figure out if she can work and successfully complete the master's program. Oh, yeah, and how to pay for it. After three tries (two for undergraduate admission), L is finally a Knight ... if she accepts.

Oh, hail

We had been expecting storms all day and right after Andy got home from work, the rain started. We got hail and it was hard and loud. Glad we keep the cars in the garage. Here's Andy showing off one of the bigger pieces. Fortunately, it didn't last long though tornado watches and warnings remained.

Looks like it snowed.

Just outside our back door.

The grass is greener

It was so warm yesterday (almost 70) I opened the windows to let some fresh air in the house. A few hours later, the neighbors sent a video of their cat watching Piper, who was sitting in the open window above the kitchen sink, with the caption, "The grass is always greener."

Good timing

I know I shouldn't be looking at my phone during church, but I did, and I happened to see that someone was purging their puzzle stash. I messaged her and she happened to be a few blocks from church so we drove over after service and I took three puzzles.

Yoga cats, on the bottom, hasn't even been opened. I also grabbed a 500-piece cat zodiac puzzle and a 1,000-piece pumpkin one which, on looking more closely, seems quite challenging.

St. Pat’s Parade

Madison Street in Forest Park was packed yesterday afternoon for the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade.

Lots of union floats and politicians, of course.

I'm always happy to see some bagpipers, Irish dancers and Shriners driving those itty bitty cars.

Grimace from McDonald's made an appearance.

We were standing behind a bunch of kids who kept taking all of the candy that was tossed out. We each were handed an energy drink and I got a little Butterfinger bar and found this little troll-like leprechaun sitting on a parking pay box so he came home with me. We watched the parade for two hours and decided to head home. It was a little chilly and windy.

Spring is near

Andy worked from home yesterday so he finished a bit early and we headed to One Lake Brewing for its happy hour (and light dinner). They had the upstairs deck open (yay!), testing to make sure everything was in working order before spring technically arrives so that was a nice surprise. It was rainy most of the day but cleared up in the late afternoon. Temps almost reached 70.

Then we drive west to the grocery store for the weeky shopping. The sunset was spectacular ...

and it got better the farther west we drove. Notice the el train in the right of this picture. Perfect timing.

Wild puzzle

Interesting puzzle, right? It's a bit too big for my puzzle board which is unfortunate because...

the cats are loving these pieces. They take them and chew them. If all the pieces end up on this one, it will be a miracle.

So I finished it in a little over a day because it needed saving from the cats. One piece is missing and since so many of the pieces are chewed up, this one is likely going in the recycling bin. Such a cool design though.

Sparse sprinkles

How sad to open my Little Debbie brownie at work yesterday to find out it was sorely lacking in the mini colored chocolate sprinkles.

Where are the magazines?

Has anyone else noticed the lack of magazines in their doctors' offices? Does everyone just scroll on their phone while they're waiting so old magazines in doctors' offices are a thing of the past? How am I suppose to catch up on celebrity if there are no People magazines?

Lenten activity

We attended a multigenerational Lenten soup dinner and activity last night at church. The theme was "making room."

The craft for the night was making stained glass windows with tissue paper. I thought for sure Andy was making a mess the way he was cutting up the pieces of tissue paper ...

but his, on the right, turned out really nice. I think I like it better than the one I made.

Hey, that's us. A picture my friend M, who organized and ran the event, took.