Spring Break!

It's Spring Break out here!  For us locals, it's a big deal because the college students leave and for one glorious week, this town is OURS.  There's room to breathe without the mass of people that are normally everywhere - the roads and the restaurants are empty, which makes it enjoyable to go out...and out we did go!  We had lunch at Grub Burger Bar - split their Jive Turkey Burger, which is my favorite thing to get there, and we had dinner at Harvey Washbangers, where you can do your laundry while you eat.  They recently changed their menu, and added some new items, including a root beer braised pulled pork with cole slaw sandwich, served with Eastern North Carolina BBQ sauce - of course we had to try it!  We split it (had to leave room for frozen yogurt, conveniently located next door) and loved it!  That one is a winner.  We also split a piece of chocolate silk pie on Pi Day (Saturday).  Needless to say, I'm back on the healthy eating track today, but what a fun weekend of eats!

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We spent a lot of the weekend buying mulch and planning out what to do with our front beds - it's always interesting to see what plants survived the multiple freezes of winter.  We decided, after nearly 15 years, to cede to the will of the house and give up on getting shrubbery to grow in the area near our front door - it's just too shady and wet there.  So we're going to place some large decorative pots in that area, and put plants in them, with tanbark on the ground.  We have a couple of pots in the backyard that we'll move to the front, and we found another one at Home Depot for a decent price - I think we could still use a few more, but it's a good start.  Jeff will be off work starting on Wednesday (benefit of working for a university - they all get a partial Spring Break), so we'll be working on all of that later in the week.

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The Duchess got a bath for Spring Break, courtesy of her loyal footman:

 I want you to know that he bought that blue bucket specifically to match the car.

 There she is, all shiny and clean - such a beauty!  I still can't believe this is my car!

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I'm looking forward to spending some time with my teacher friends who are normally working this week - I already had one coffee date on Saturday afternoon, and I'm hoping a couple more happen.  The weather hasn't been very spring-like, but it doesn't matter - it's happening in my mind, and I can feel the fog of winter beginning to lift!