Kitchen Easter Tree and Hutch

 

I am so happy you decided to stop by!!

 

Just a reminder, I will be posting on Wednesdays and Sundays every week so be sure to check back on those days to see a new post...... 

 

 Today, I will be sharing my Kitchen Easter Tree and Hutch in the Kitchen....

 

 

 But first, I want to Thank Dee, over at Grammy's Grid, for choosing my post, Bunny Tea Buffet, as one of her features from last week's Themed Link Party for Tablescapes!!!

This week's Themed Party is All Things Crochet!!

 Thanks so much, Dee!!!

 Please stop by and link up to this lovely party!!!

 
In my last post, I shared my Pink Easter Tree.....

 

And the rest of the Easter Decorations in the Dining Room....

 Click HERE if you missed that post....

 I also did a Rudolph Day post on the 25th for March, Year Round Decorated Trees.......

 

 

And now for a few Personal Notes...

 

 Food of the Week

These are our meals this week from the Wilkes Barre Scranton Penguins Food Service....

 

 

Joe wanted to try the Oven Roasted Prime Rib w/ Baked Potato & Grilled Vegetables:

I will have to cook this a bit more because there is no way Joe is eating this unless it is WELL DONE....

And we also got the Jerk Chicken Breast with rice....

Joey will eat the chicken and I will most likely have the Rice .....

On Monday, we had some snow squalls and snow showers roll through our area with a low of around 14 degrees and a high for around 25 degrees....

Unfortunately, these conditions led to a 50+ vehicle pile up on Interstate 81 about 40 miles south of us....

You may have seen the horrific pictures on National News or Inside Edition...

This is a link to a video posted by a guy who was one of the victims in this awful event as he stood on the side of the road seeing trucks and cars slam into each other with some exploding and people on the side of the road almost getting hit and running up the embankment....

The sound of the explosions and cars crashing into each other is horrifying and I do not blame this guy for using a few four letter words....

It must have been surreal....

I will warn you that it is graphic and upsetting but if you live in the snow states, it may be something you want to watch and be aware of what could happen in the Winter......

Click HERE to see the video......

3 dead and over 2 dozen people hospitalized.....so far....

I was so glad when Joey got home as he travels Interstate 81 to where he works in Scranton because the snow showers and squalls continued into the evening hours on Monday throughout NEPA....

I thought I would share this bit of advice with you as to what to do if you are traveling and hit a snow squall.....

I, personally, do not know if I would stay in my car but if I got out, I would get as far away from the road as I could until conditions and visibility improved.....

I have to give a HUGE Shout Out to all the EMS personnel who saved people by pulling them out of their cars through the wind shields, Fire Fighters who worked for 6 hours trying to put out the burning wreckage, State Police including those that initially responded and ended up being part of the Pile Up , Red Cross, Tow Truck Drivers and the community around the area that set up shelters for the walking wounded and those who amazingly were unhurt...

This was a catastrophic event and one that I am sure we will be hearing about for a long time here in my area....

 

My hearts go out to those injured and those who lost family members..... 

They finally reopened the Interstate today , Wednesday, after working day and night to clean it up.....

UPDATE:  6 Deaths and 80 vehicles involved!!!!

On a brighter note, this is the first Sunset that I was able to photograph from our front porch this Season.....

The sun finally made it around to the front of our townhouse and we are getting some sun on the front porch now....

These were a bunch of birds that decided to take a rest in the Tree across our Court last evening....

There are buds on some of the trees but we are predicted to have below average temps. for the next week or two....

 

 

I finally changed over the Powder Room from Winter back to my Lady's Boudior Powder Room.....

I also changed over Nelson Crest from Winter to Bunny Land....

 

I will be doing posts on the Powder Room and Nelson Crest in the future......

And now on to the Kitchen.....

 The whole concept of decorating for Easter in the Kitchen using carrots started 4 years ago when Kris, over at  JunkChic Cottage, gifted me a bunch of carrots after I mentioned how much I liked the ones she shared in a post.....

Thanks once again, Kris!!

The next year, in 2019, I was awaiting my knee replacement surgery and was not able to decorate for Easter that year....

In 2020, I could not wait to decorate the Kitchen adding carrots and orange to my red and yellow Easter color theme for that room!!

But the Pandemic had shut everything down so I decided to look through my vast stash of stuff and found these.....

 

I bought these in a discount store that sells hardware and other building supplies.....

I was thinking Tussie Mussies when I bought them but now, I saw carrots!!!

This is what I came up with....

That was the first year that I decided to keep up the Tree in the Kitchen that I decorated for Christmas and Winter and add these hand made carrot ornaments to it!!.....

 

As I already mentioned that today I am sharing the Tree and Hutch in the Kitchen....

I call this my focal wall and what I really like to decorate for the different Holidays and Seasons because after all, I hate to cook and would much rather decorate in the Kitchen than cook in the Kitchen!!!!!

My Kitchen is decorated in what I call a Country, Victorian, Vintage Style.......

Many of my "normal" decor items are now back out after the Christmas and Winter Holidays....

One of the shelves and brackets that my Dad made for me out of scrap wood over 40+ years ago.....

My neighbor Elly's wall phone that would actually work if I still had that hooked up for a land line...

A chalkboard that a former co worker gave to me....

A bunny , an Easter Basket made from a peat pot and an egg box that I embellished....

My Mother bought, over 35 years ago, the cross for me from one of her co workers who made and sold crafts.....

On the side of the Hutch, for Easter, I taped a picture from an old Cynthia Hart calendar for Easter over the current calendar....

I painted them and added a few of them to my Tree....

After all, it is not easy trying to find red, yellow and orange Easter Tree ornaments!!

 

I had a set of 3 small yellow Easter plates on a rack that you hung on a wall that I decided to use as ornaments....

 

 

Most of my "normal" nonseasonal decorative items are now back on the shelves of this Hutch....

 

 

On top of the Hutch....