happy easter ....

[audie]

happy easter to all my sowal friends ! enjoy whatever you do to celebrate the day (i will be sleeping ) and be safe. it's off to work i go !

[Johnrudy]

Happy Easter to you too, Audie!

[30A Skunkape]

Happy Easter to all, especially those who will be working and away from family and friends. I will be in the ER caring for all the little tots with chocolate induced tummy aches

[CastlesOfSand]

Happy Easter! Hope everyone has a wonderful day! I miss you guys , it's been a little busy lately. I'll be back!!!

[Rita]

Love y'all! And SoWal!




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[Beach Runner]

Happy Easter to everyone!

Hey, Mermaid, I took your advice and used Baker's Joy for the pan for my Easter lemon pound cake. Awesome! So much easier than greasing and flouring.

[Ocean Lover]

Happy Easter Everyone!

[Kimmifunn]

Hoppy Easter to all my peeps! xoxoox

[audie]

Happy Easter to all, especially those who will be working and away from family and friends. I will be in the ER caring for all the little tots with chocolate induced tummy aches

we'll have all that, in addition to the "i don't want to go to work monday" people who invent illnesses to get a dr's excuse. some people do more work trying to get out of work than if they would just work in the first place !

[Jdarg]

Happy Easter! Hope everyone's morning is as glorious as ours is here in Louisville. It is beautiful. Just got up and yes, the Bunny was here.


Yesterday the Bunny brought us Mermaid and Merman- (who are still sleeping somehow in this noisy house!) AND they brought me a huge Trader Joe's bag stuffed with of all kinds of goodies! Including the yummy coffee I am drinking now. The best Easter basket ever! Mermaid also brought THE sandcastle pan, and we are making the cake and decorating it with Easter candy later this a.m. Kate was wondering if Mermaid had a tail, but I explained to her that on land, she has legs!

[Chickpea]

Will be spending the day at Eden State Park helping our little ones find eggs! Will also try go catch dusk at the Beach. Cannot ask for anything more. Happy Easter to all!

[Miss Kitty]

Oh jdarg....that's the best Easter story ever!!! Y'all will have so much funn making that cake! Say hello to my peeps, The Mers!

Rita...you are amazing with those appropriate pics!!!


HOPPY EASTER !!!!!

[John R]

Happy Easter. Going to do a cleanup of 395, then drop the boat in the bay and head on up to seabar to see hubba hubba. i'm sure it will be a zoo.

jr

[Destiny]

Happy Easter to all!! Hope everyone has an enjoyable day and celebrate the wonderful weather.

[kathydwells]

Happy Easter to all my buds here on SoWal. Have a beautiful day with friends and family. To those who are sleeping, have sweet dreams. To those who are working, don't work to hard. Stay Safe!

[30ARules]

Happy Easter all you SoWal Gulls and buoys! Have a Grayt day

[Miss Kitty]

Happy Easter all you SoWal Gulls and buoys! Have a Grayt day

...the adult version of a lampshade....after too much chocolate????

Love that tar!

[InletBchDweller]

Hoppy Easter to all!!! I am not in Sowal now but on the Diversion Canal in French Settlement, Louisiana. It is beautiful here but is not the Beach!!!! Hope everyone has a GREAT day!!!!!

[Ocean Lover]

...the adult version of a lampshade....after too much chocolate????

Love that tar!

I know wev'e had too much chocolate here!

[Mermaid]

Happy Easter to all my SoWal friends! We've just gotten back from a perfect weekend at with jdarg and family and yes, the travelling sandcastle Bundt cake made yet another appearance, much to the delight of youngest Darg Daughter who made hay of all the turrets. Ate them right off. I polished off the moat made of Jelly Belly jelly beans. It was a wonderful Easter mini-vacation for us!!!

[Jdarg]

Happy Easter to all my SoWal friends! We've just gotten back from a perfect weekend at with jdarg and family and yes, the travelling sandcastle Bundt cake made yet another appearance, much to the delight of youngest Darg Daughter who made hay of all the turrets. Ate them right off. I polished off the moat made of Jelly Belly jelly beans. It was a wonderful Easter mini-vacation for us!!!

My new avatar is Kate with the beautiful sandcastle cake. It was indeed colorful. After eating nothing but sugar all day long, licking the turrets, and running around behind Mermaid saying her name over and over, Kate finally crashed!

[Sheila]

Awwwww! What a sweet girl! Jdarg if I am luck enough to meet her what a spoiling that will be!

[Jdarg]

Awwwww! What a sweet girl! Jdarg if I am luck enough to meet her what a spoiling that will be!

Maybe handsome Camden will like older women when he grows up and he and Kate can get married. He's my pick for the future son-in-law!

[Sheila]

Maybe handsome Camden will like older women when he grows up and he and Kate can get married. He's my pick for the future son-in-law!

I'll send you some recent photos! What a guy!

[Jdarg]

How about all the Easter 'tars? They have been so creative and funny! I have enjoyed jumping on the board and seeing the new ones.

[Sheila]

How about all the Easter 'tars? They have been so creative and funny! I have enjoyed jumping on the board and seeing the new ones.

GTTBD really liked SJ's !

[peapod1980]

Happy Easter! Hope everyone's morning is as glorious as ours is here in Louisville. It is beautiful. Just got up and yes, the Bunny was here.


Yesterday the Bunny brought us Mermaid and Merman- (who are still sleeping somehow in this noisy house!) AND they brought me a huge Trader Joe's bag stuffed with of all kinds of goodies! Including the yummy coffee I am drinking now. The best Easter basket ever! Mermaid also brought THE sandcastle pan, and we are making the cake and decorating it with Easter candy later this a.m. Kate was wondering if Mermaid had a tail, but I explained to her that on land, she has legs!

Waaaaaahhhhhh...!
Pity party over.
Happy Easter, everyone!

[Miss Kitty]

Okay...Kate is the Kutest thing!!! Look at that grin with the cake! I know she loved Mermy...we all do! Thanks for telling us about all the funn you had.

[Sheila]

Okay...Kate is the Kutest thing!!! Look at that grin with the cake! I know she loved Mermy...we all do! Thanks for telling us about all the funn you had.

You know it! That's my future DIL!

[DD]

What a darling picture of Kate and her cake that Mermaid made!

[TooFarTampa]

Kate is a little stunner. Jdarg, your very first avatar was just precious. Glad you had a wonderful Easter visit. Happy Easter to all!

We are in SoWal with lots of family piled in with us and had a wonderful day. We went to the Easter service at Rosemary (thanks for the tip CCK) and the post-service egg hunt. It was a beautiful morning and the service was very appropriate for the setting. All the kids ate too much candy, crashed from their sugar high, and we got them up to go to the Red Bar very early so we could snag some of the remaining crab cakes. Saw the Conch Out on the way over. Went to the beach for sunset afterward. This is what Easter should be all about.

[Beach Runner]

How about all the Easter 'tars? They have been so creative and funny! I have enjoyed jumping on the board and seeing the new ones.

No one liked my Joakim Noah one? Boo-hoo. My daughter did it in Flash as an Easter present for me.

[Jdarg]

No one liked my Joakim Noah one? Boo-hoo. My daughter did it in Flash as an Easter present for me.

I liked your Joakim 'tar.

[Miss Kitty]

No one liked my Joakim Noah one? Boo-hoo. My daughter did it in Flash as an Easter present for me.

I loved his ears, but what is he doing with his hands? Your daughter is so sweet to give you an avatar!!!

[Cheering472]

Don't ya love daughters? Jdarg that little Kate is adorable. Loved the Easter story and her Mermaid questions

[Jdarg]

Don't ya love daughters? Jdarg that little Kate is adorable. Loved the Easter story and her Mermaid questions

hmmm..speaking of avatars too...those tulips look like the ones at Churchill Downs! I showed the Mers the Derby Issue of Louisville Magazine- and our mostly B-list celebrities that get their picture taken while wearing ridiculous hats and choking down mint juleps. It seems like it's more and more rap artists and people like Pamela Anderson and Tori Speling (both such powerhouses of talent), dontcha think? I'm ready to get some really glamourous people back to the track!

[Mermaid]

I'm ready to get some really glamourous people back to the track!

Just call. Merman and I are at your service whenever you need us.

[Cheering472]

hmmm..speaking of avatars too...those tulips look like the ones at Churchill Downs! I showed the Mers the Derby Issue of Louisville Magazine- and our mostly B-list celebrities that get their picture taken while wearing ridiculous hats and choking down mint juleps. It seems like it's more and more rap artists and people like Pamela Anderson and Tori Speling (both such powerhouses of talent), dontcha think? I'm ready to get some really glamourous people back to the track!

Nice catch Jdarg! I love the tulips at Churchill Downs. We are gearing up for Derby and spring. They had the parkway blocked off for one of the races this weekend. I certainly do agree with you about the celebrities. When I was younger the Derby drew in big name celebrities. I used to love checking it out. Not so much anymore. It wounds like you had the best celebrities this weekend with the Mers. Hope you all had funn. Glad the weather was nice for their visit.

[John R]

Happy Easter. Going to do a cleanup of 395, then drop the boat in the bay and head on up to seabar to see hubba hubba. i'm sure it will be a zoo.

jr

did all of the above. met jim and gina and hit 395 at around 10:30. did from suzanne lane up to watercolor, and then from lower forrest access road both north and south. i opted for the cigarette butts. so basically i was stooped over the entire time, until around 1:45. got a lot of garbage picked up around 15 big bags, and i filled up two grocery bags with just butts. i was quite demoralized by the time we called it quits. seems most smokers are of the opinion that throwing butts out the window is not littering, and that the butts are out of sight, out of mind. nasty. i guess they don't care what they're doing to their bodies, so it surely doesn't matter what they're doing to the planet. quite selfish in my estimation.
coolest thing is saw all day was this:


it was amazing to see the strength of a plant pushing aside asphalt to grow. perked me right up.

got home a little while later and dropped boat in the water and headed up to seabar for hubba hubba, paddling against an amazing headwind that kept pushing the boat in the direction it wanted, south. got there and saw mr SJ and a bunch of other sowal residents. HH had just taken a break as i pulled up, so got to visit a bunch. music resumed and got to listen to some before leaving almost too late for light. grabbed this on the way back:



SMOKERS, use your ashtrays!!

[Smiling JOe]

Nice catch Jdarg! I love the tulips at Churchill Downs. We are gearing up for Derby and spring. They had the parkway blocked off for one of the races this weekend. I certainly do agree with you about the celebrities. When I was younger the Derby drew in big name celebrities. I used to love checking it out. Not so much anymore. It wounds like you had the best celebrities this weekend with the Mers. Hope you all had funn. Glad the weather was nice for their visit.

Forget the Derby this year. Didn't you hear about Mayhem in SoWal?

[peapod1980]

SMOKERS, use your ashtrays!!

Better yet--use your brains and quit!

[Smiling JOe]

SMOKERS, use your ashtrays!!

Great pics, John R. I, too love to see the power of plants bursting through asphalt.

Smokers, using their own ashtray, stinking up their cars? Get fo real. I know there are a few who do the right thing but they are in the minority. Some of my friends who are smokers pocket their butts when they are done with a smoke. While I don't like their smoking habit, I applaud them greatly for setting a great example with of the leftovers of a bad example (smoking).

On another note, the other day, on my annual trip over to Destin, I pulled up beside a taxi van and noticed a lady in the passenger seat smoking. Nothing unusual to see, right? Then, on the window immediately behind her, I notice a big orange no smoking sticker. I tried to grab my camera for a photo, but I was too late.

[Smiling JOe]

Better yet--use your brains and quit!

If only the demons were not calling from inside, that would be easy. I am not a smoker, but I need my caffeine just the same. I know more people who would like to quit smoking than people who actually do quit for good. Nicotene, like caffeine, is a powerful drug. Most smokers whom I know would love to stop.

[CastlesOfSand]

I love your tar jdarg!!! Cute Kate, and the sandcastle cake!!!! I bet she loved making the cake!

[peapod1980]

If only the demons were not calling from inside, that would be easy.

So true, and true for so many other addictions as well!

[John R]

i too applaud those who use their ashtrays or pocket the butts. and i'm aware the addiction is so strong, with all the chemicals the tobacco companies are allowed to deliver. but, i really just don't get it. honestly i do, i've beat my own addictions, and when you need that fix, nothing will stand in your way. but littering i can't fathom. it's embarrassing that some of us care so little for our surroundings. i must guess that litterers never leave the car, they just drive everywhere. i'm sure they don't bike, or hike.

the car we were in yesterday was a honda element, no ashtray sold only to non smokers?

[Beach Runner]

I liked your Joakim 'tar.

Thanks.

SS, Joakim is always doing finger-pointing moves. I have no clue what this one means. Maybe someone on the board knows. Someone on the board explained another one of his finger-pointing moves to me - it means "count the basket."

[Jdarg]

Forget the Derby this year. Didn't you hear about Mayhem in SoWal?

yes and Bdarg is a May baby. Believe me, if we could sneak away, we would invite ourselves to John's party! I will have my fingers in dirt on Derby Day.

[Cheering472]

Forget the Derby this year. Didn't you hear about Mayhem in SoWal?

Yep SJ, that's the place to be. But I can't get to Sowal until the end of May, and I am sooo ready!! Work is kicking my butt today.