It turned out that our weather men were right about their snow prediction... the drizzly rain changed into sleet and eventually white snow the other day. Enough snow to cover the ground white, to remind us that this picture is somewhat normal for this time of a year up here. This morning is another cold, wet, sleety one. That's OK. I'll be at work all day anyway. Hopefully it will warm up tomorrow on my day off. Mushrooms should grow once the temperatures warm up, too.
Though they were predicting some snow for today, we woke up to a bit of spring rain, much needed rain. Our dwarf daffodils look happy.
Yesterday Joe went to check out one of his morel mushroom hunting spots... too cold, way too dry, but he managed to find one small morel. 
We hope everyone is having a nice Easter weekend. We joined Joe's family for Easter brunch and Easter egg hunt this morning as you might have expected. But yesterday we went to see an exciting regional cage fighting/ Maui Thai event. There were a couple of TKO's, including one 2-second match. The best and most palm-sweating match was the only one female match (below). A bloody nose and everything. Crazy!!!
Four hours of not-so-Easter-like entertainment, but memorable.
This past weekend we drove down to Green Bay to see the Murphys, our belated Christmas visit finally. The main event was a tour of Lambeau Field, owned by the city and thousands of Packer fans. We are proud to be one of them! The tour took us all the way up to the sky box seats. 
And even down through the players tunnel onto the field. Now that was quite a perspective!
The empty off season field is currently undergoing another major construction. Impressive.
At last, a snapshot of all four of us at the field. We do look a bit chilly... that's Green Bay. Our Packer players are tough!!
Thank you, Murphys, for the fun weekend!
Today was Joe's birthday. It's Monday... a regular work day. So we celebrated over the weekend. My usual present for Joe on his birthday is a home cooked Japanese meal. I made "tonkatsu," breaded pork cutlet, kabocha pumpkin with onion and bacon, miso soup, and white rice for dinner on Saturday. 
We found this Japanese beer made with red rice, that was also part of Joe's birthday dinner. 
Yesterday Joe cooked over 20 lb. of BBQ ribs for his own and his brother Mark's birthday. Joe got a new toy. He's currently playing with his new PS Move. It's not as exciting watching him play Bocce Ball as Gladiator Sword Fighting he tried last night. Still pretty funny.
This was also from yesterday, March 17th, in the UP. The temperature must have gone up to mid 80's. We took our Honda and Chevey for car washes, and Joe gave his Subaru a check-up in the sun. He was saying, "I hate to say this, but it's almost too darn hot!" Crazy, we are more used to St. Pat's Day snow storms. I'm partly disappointed that we didn't get a winter storm.... 
