Thunder and lightening and rain. Lots of rain. At least there was some nice weather yesterday, if only for a few hours. Regardless my Sunday was spent doing nothing which is absolutely what the doctor ordered.

My mom’s lilac tree bloomed. That means it is time for me to start talking about making a midori cake. Each year I talk about it and each year I do not do it. When I was in college, my old, ex-friend Christine’s mom would send her cuttings from their lilac tree and a midori cake each spring. There were a few years after college where I did make a midori cake in time for the bloom but more often than not I found we didn’t have enough midori and I was too lazy to buy it. THIS YEAR I WILL DO IT! Because it is such a sweet memory in my mind, enjoying midori cake and smelling lilac. Too bad my friendship with Christine didn’t hold up as well.