Quiches I made for Easter: spinach, asparagus, zucchini, broccoli-leekI woke up about 5 when the rain started and it is still raining steadily. I set out a few cucumbers and shallots yesterday, and they will do well with it. There is a peach tree we set out on Saturday and all the squashes I transplanted Friday.
We went to the Fellowship early yesterday for the forum, and came home before the service. The forum was by Dale Goodhue and about a subject dear to Ray's heart: atheism. Dale described the author Dawkins as a fanatic and I think the description fits Ray as well. Like any fundamentalist, he believes that anyone who does not agree with him 100% is wrong, and needs to convert.
We spent some time outdoors, weeding, mulching, staking and fencing the pecan trees (we did the fruit trees on Saturday). It was a beautiful sunny, warm day, but not too hot.
Then we headed to Janna's with the four quiches. We were not the first to arrive this year for once, although not nearly the last. There was much good food and lots of people, mostly her family: mother, sister, two brothers, one sister-in-law, two nephews, one with wife and daughter, one with girlfriend, Mark and his girlfriend. Also Michael and Alice, Becky and Kent, John and Debbie. Twenty-two altogether. We had fun talking with various ones and eating the delicious food: ham, turkey, meat pie, wheat pie, congealed fruit salad, green salad, quiche, bread, sweet potato-leek tart, carrot cake, pineapple upside-down cake. Ray and I were the first to go; I wanted to get in some more outdoor time while the weathere was so good, so we left about 4:30, when some of the group members were about to go for a walk.
We were working in the yard for about 15 minutes, when a little red car came down the drive. It was the Captain and Vanessa, not expected back until today! They left Venice early, about 7;15 am (on Easter) and got to Valdosta, where they had a motel reservation, by 12:15, but it was really too early to stop, so they came all the way. The Captain said Vanessa drove some of the way, and they went 75 most of the time, which is the speed limit. They enjoyed their visit with Aunt Norma, but Vanessa had the twin bed and the Captain had the mattress on the floor, not ideal. Norma gets around with a walker mostly, but takes a wheelchair when she goes out. She is 91.
looks yummy...
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful quiches! Sounds like a lovely Easter. Interestingly, Ray and I had a talk about a zealous atheist, probably Dawkins, a few years ago, on a walk at your house. I think I described him as an evangelical atheist or a fundamentalist atheist, which Ray didn't agree with. It was a good talk, though. On a sort of related note, I was reading today in Discover magazine (while getting an allergy shot) about all the quantum physics experiments that show bizarre things that have been verified many times. Results show definitively that subatomic particles behave differently when they're being observed than when they're not; i.e. the same experiment will have different outcomes when it's being observed than it will when it's not, showing that the observer somehow influences the behavior of subatomic particles. Also that these particles somehow influence each other over very long distances. For example, they separate two electrons that have shared the same "orbit" around a nucleus and cause them both to travel in the same direction, but separated very far apart. When the first particle gets to a one-way mirror, it can either go through or be bounced back. If it goes through, the other one is bounced back--every time. If it bounces back, the other one goes through--every time. Up until the last few years, scientists would have said these kind of results were impossible. This is sort of related to the argument I made that because there are so many things we don't understand, I don't feel we can know definitively that there is no God.
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