Journal Entry for Sunday, Apr 8th

Easter Sunday! Happy Easter to ya all. Well, here it is Easter already, a true sign of Spring. Where did the winter go? We decided not to go out to eat today and just stayed home and watched the final round of the Masters golf tournament. At the start of the tournament, I cooked us a huge Easter Sunday  brunch that included onion, cheese and pepper omelets, bacon, English muffins, coffee cake, orange juice and fresh strawberries. What a day it was. Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa made a 254-yard double eagle at the 575-yard par-5 second hole, only to end up loosing to Bubba Watson in a two hole sudden death playoff. On the second playoff hole he was 25 yards into the woods and couldn’t even see the green and played an unbelievable hooking shot that landed on the green , about 20 feet from the cup. He won it with a two stroke par put. Watson is a shaggy haired, self-taught, left-handed golfer from Bagdad, Florida, who’s gained fans for his everyman persona and willingness to show his emotions on the course. Bubba owns the General Lee, the brightly painted 1969 Dodge Charger that was featured in the 1979-85 television show “The Dukes of Hazzard.” The car, with the colors of the Confederacy on its roof and racing number “01” on the doors – was purchased at auction by Watson in January for $110,000.  Guess he can really afford it now; he received $1.44 million for winning the Masters. It was a very enjoyable day of golf. We talked with my mother in Tahoe who was over at my brother Tom's house with his daughter Kristin, my sister Bonnie and his new roommate Rick for a ham Easter dinner with all the fixings. For our dinner I made a fresh fruit Waldorf salad with chopped apples, pears, an orange, celery, walnuts and salad dressing, and a hint of lemon juice; served with Triscuits and Saltines. Later we had a banana sundae over a movie we had prerecorded on the DVR before calling it a day and heading off to bed.