Spring Bounty

We're pretty happy that strawberries are almost in season here in Utah! They go great with oatmeal, according to Freddy.

We had a nice, laid-back weekend here. The weather was chilly and rainy, so we laid low. Freddy had music class Saturday morning, which he is really starting to love (if only we had Mary here to do her old Teddy Time music class!), and Saturday night, Bill and I went to an event put on by the Nature Conservancy of Utah at the Great Shorelands Preserve. The Preserve is a tract of 44,000 acres along the edge of the Great Salt Lake that the Nature Conservancy purchased. They built really cool structures as visitors centers and endless boardwalks that run through the marshlands. We heard so many different kids of birds - apparently the salt lake is an important stop on the migratory path between Canada and South America. Then we went to a really hokey restaurant called the Prairie Schooner, where everyone sits in covered wagons and there are big displays of taxidermied bears and wolves, fake fires, the works!! The food was...well...pretty bad, but the scenery was good for a laugh.

Hope everyone's doing well and ready for a great week!