Playing harp in Church

Yesterday was called "Sunday Cantate" in German protestant churches. For this occasion I was asked to let my harp "sing" during the church service. I'm not really a church goer and can't remember the last time I went to a regular service without any special event like wedding, christening or konfirmation and it was also the first time with our new pastor. 

We got the best spot in the church - the centre in front of the altar where everyone could see me playing. Although I didn't see the audience I was a bit nervous and made a couple of mistakes. With a violin it might have sounded queer, but a harp sounds always wonderful and everyone was delighted about the unusual sounds and asked me to bring the harp again.

Listen to Planxty Kelly played in church

Busy times on my own

These days speed far too fast to find time to blog. When my boss went on holiday I started to work more hours. Today my work-mate had to go into hospital unexpectedly. Now I'm on my own to keep the shop going. That's no problem, but I'd love an house-elf at home.

Luckily I can see the evening sky from our kitchen window while doing the dishes late in the evening.

Asparagus & Wine Celebration

The past weekend was very busy at work: all the preparations for our spring event: #Asparagus & Wine Celebration. Visitors could taste many kinds of wine from Germany and France and also eat different dishes with asparagus - and drink wine with it, of course! 

There was a lot to prepare at the mall to make everything run smoothly on Saturday. It worked out nicely, although more visitors could have been served. Later in the afternoon everything had to be cleared away as the party room at the mall was used for a family celebration on Sunday.  It was a long day that ended with a relaxed glass of wine.

On Sunday all helping persons were invited to eat and drink the left overs. As I brought my harp, I didn't drink any wine that day as I had to drive it home with our car. I got my share of wine to take home - but being surrounded by wine all weekend, I don't fancy drinking it right now.

Tasting tables:

Foods: Fried asparagus with either ham or salmon

 Asparagus Quiche

 Asparagus soup or asparagus with potatoes and ham

 

Dining room

 Wine bar

Asparagus skinning machine:

Quilting with love

At the spring festival in the plant nursery I found an exhibition of the most wonderful quilted treasures. There were such wonderful blankets, cushion covers, table sets, table runners, bags and oven gloves. Most of the motives are flower fairies and you can just see the love that is put into making them. I would have loved to shop a whole load of these wonderful handcrafted goodies, but my budget isn't big enough right now. At least I asked for something useful for Mother's Day - a couple of oven gloves with fairies. 

Hard choice in the nursery

Right now our garden is lush with flowers blooming again and again every year. That way we have less work and weeds have no chance to grow. Around our pond my husband now wants some more color and we also needed new plants for inside the pond. Luckily only a few plants are happy with little soil, so the choice was a little bit smaller, still - looking around the uncountable number of possibilities for a garden was such fun!