Happy Easter!
It’s a sunny but cold day here. I must say it’s nice to see sunshine on Easter morning. Though the forecast for tomorrow is maddening – another high wind watch all day long. What the??? Lots of rain and winds. I don’t remember a year where we’ve had so many high wind events as this year. It’s been a constant since January.
Anyway, someone came home from his walk yesterday with these:
Isn’t that sweet? He’d found them in a field beyond a house that is currently uninhabited. I made him recreate exactly what he’d done when he came in the house, so I could get a photo. Hair, courtesy of having just taken off his hat!
The forsythia was nearly finished, so it was good timing.
Bright yellow flowers seem perfect for Easter. And it’s a good thing because some critter ate my yellow daffodils. I never get many blooms; I suspect that’s because it’s quite an old plant. So it seems especially naughty to consume the two blooms that I had!
Our last egg cup:
This was a gift from a reader of the blog. It’s made from a Holland Mold and someone hand painted and glazed it with the initials L. H. in 1958. Holland Molds were popular, one could personalize the mold with paint and detail and then take the finished product home. I love this one – it’s about 4 3/4″ high, which is quite tall for an egg cup. It lives in the kitchen china cabinet.
I’m sure I’ve missed a few here and there, but that’s the bulk of the collection. I hope you’ve enjoyed this year’s tour.
Have a lovely day. I’m sure it will be hard for some of you to be away from family on this special day. Sending you all love.
Happy Sunday.
happy Easter!
what a sweet husband you have! and what a wonderful thing it is when two people meant to be together find each other. :)
the daffodils are beautiful with your egg cups. and yes, i’ve enjoyed the tour of egg cups. thanks for that and all you share.
cold and pouring down rain here. some snow is forecast for later today. i love rain, but snow in april? only in a prince song, please!
hope everyone has a safe, blessed, peaceful day … happy Easter!
kathy in iowa
Happy Easter, Kathy! I see snow showers on the forecast for later this week. Yuck!
Happy Easter to you and Don. The flowers are so sweet. I think they are more special because they were picked by someone who knows you so well and knows how much pleasure they bring you. Sunny here in Brandon but we are expecting rain later in the week. I will be thankful for it. Blessings to all today. Stay safe.
Thank you, Janet! Have a wonderful day.
Happy Easter and love to you and Don, too!
Thank you, Cathy! Stay safe!
Happy Easter to you and Don and your festive cottage! How sweet is that bouquet? (As the mother of little boys, I recognize that joy on the face of the bouquet deliverer!)
Proud husband bringing flowers! Thank you, Shanna. Happy Easter. Are you thinking you’re going to have to stay in Florida this summer?
I think that’s a distinct possibility. Boooo. Hoping for a faster-than-expected cure or vaccine. Don’t know if I can be a full-time FL resident. (Not a happy one, anyway.)
Me either. We briefly considered moving there after my dad died and quickly realized it wasn’t for us! I hope you get back upstate, Shanna. Stay safe.
I’m glad you went for the re-creation! It’s a darling photo and just filled with the sweetness.
Wishing you both a lovely Sunday and Happy Easter.
Have a wonderful day, Jeanie! Stay safe.
That pic of Don is adorable..,and sweet. Happy Easter to both of you! ;)
He is a sweetie, Donnamae! Happy Easter to you and yours!
Happy Easter. It was nice to see Don smiling. I am so sorry for the loss of his friends. And yet he still smiles.
He works real hard on maintaining balance. He’s a good guy.
Stay safe, Kay.
Happy Easter to everyone!! We had our Zoom call w/ the kids and that sweet baby this morning. Aching to hold her, but I have to believe we will get there at some point. Hopefully before she is crawling!!
I forgot I had a ham in the freezer from after Christmas, so pulled that out this week and it should be ready soon. I see lots of ham in our future this next week as only 2 of us will be eating it! It is cold and misty here today, but my hubs brother just called from Minneapolis and he said he has shoveled once already, and it is snowing so hard they can’t see the houses across the street. ugh. I will take the rainy mist.
It must be so hard not to hold your granddaughter!
I saw photos of all that snow – what a way to celebrate Easter!
Stay safe, Chris.
Happy Easter, Claudia and Don!
I’m so enjoying your blog, as always. It’s truly a gift.
Thank you,
Lily
Thank you for stopping by Lily! Stay safe.
Hard to get in a respectful, Easter mood today with neighbors on the one side of me blasting rock music (teenagers at home) and the other one having an illegal gathering which makes me nuts, but I’m trying to zero-in on my own ‘thing’ despite the gray, gloomy, drizzly, cold day (although SoCalif is supposed to really warm up midweek; and I’m sure, from that point on, we’ll likely lose the cool weather for good). I woke up sad, achy and nauseous after bad sleep; so, not a great start to my Sunday, but we all have those kinds of days from time to time, don’t we…
I’m juggling the pantry stuff today, reassessing, repositioning in the crowded spaces. Oh joy. But how lucky to have food on my shelves when others do not. Despite a few people in ‘my circle’ who continue to go to the grocery store every week (or more), even with their particular co-morbidities for the complications they could get from the virus, I haven’t been in any kind of store for nearly six weeks (and that hadn’t been to ‘shop’ but merely to quickly pick up one thing at a pharmacy counter) and of course, like anybody, I keep thinking of things I wish I had on hand, despite our one home delivery of groceries, but these are the weeks when it’s important to make-do and stay home as per our government orders (if you can; and I realize a lot of this is still personal choice; I’ve made my choices; other people make theirs).
I’m really trying hard to pray on this today, the idea of ‘let it be’ or ‘live and let be’ but the ironic thing about a few of my friends and even my closest relatives is that (unlike me) they have the money and the space and the time (retired!) to have stocked up really well; with at least three examples, they’re risking going out (self-indulgently, in my opinion) simply because they’re bored & fidgety and impatient with being home all the time (aren’t we all) and they’re not willing to forego their ‘freedom’ and routines (wanting their ‘regular’ fresh flowers in the house, for example, like from a florist or nursery) and eating patterns (of fresh meat, fresh veggies and fruits, etc., saying that eating out of cans and processed-packaging is not how they live [but most of us are NOT eating and living like we want to right now; we’re in the middle of an epidemic!]).
Again, to each his own but, coincidentally, ALL three of these folks have a second frig/freezer in their very-large homes with almost limitless storage/cupboard space, too; so, it kinda boggles my mind (and my nemesis, ENVY, rears its head), but I have to say “let it go, Vicki” and ‘live and let live’. Thing is, how do they know if they’re even themselves a virus carrier? In the absence of widespread testing, none of us know. The whole idea is to separate from people, not be among people. Reduce exposure. But any place they’re allowed to go, they’re going there, just to combat their edginess or boredom. (My husband is fighting it, but he’ll take a long walk like Don, or he endlessly works in the yard/garden; he doesn’t go out in the car or in stores! He’s got a smashed toenail right now we’re keeping an eye on; hoping it doesn’t require a doctor’s trip when we’ve also been working hard to not go to a medical facility.)
I think I’m just finally really ‘feeling’ the confinement of the stay-home orders and we’ll all have our waves of this where we feel trapped. (And, again, how bad to complain, when you’ve got delivery people, shelf stockers and front-line medical workers who so wish they could get the luxury of doing exactly what I’m doing, which is staying put, staying home.) I remind myself I’ve had surgeries where I couldn’t get out and drive for eight weeks; that I’ve had illness for years which has often personally kept me homebound.
It’s time to not rant and instead get out the gratitude list, and remember the lessons and promise of Easter. And get busy, get to work; move the mind into something else. I’ve enjoyed your egg cups and fabric eggs because I didn’t make the effort to Easter-decorate this year, which might have helped had I surrounded myself with some lambies, chicks, eggs and bunny decor; all the pretty pastel colors.
Your yellow lovelies are a sight for sore eyes! Hope your afternoon is going nicely. We’ll all do better with Sun and Spring. Almost there!
It’s not easy to see people disregarding the rules the rest of us are doing our best to live by. I could write reams about that. But, in the end, we need to let go of our resentment because we’re completely powerless to do anything about it anyway! Stay safe, Vicki.
Yes, have to power-down the frustration and lack of control; I mean, you just can’t control other people…we’re not personal cops(!!) and other people don’t like it if you shake/wag a finger at them…but I can be a real control freak (and/or, at times, as awful & ugly as it sounds, sink into a pity party, letting the frustrations/exasperation get to me, as it did when I wrote [sorry about verbalizing it; I’ve been fighting some ‘low’ days and the dreary weather isn’t helping, nor is the lack of exercise, fresh air and outdoor activity, so I know I have to work really much harder on it and Tues & Weds particularly should be sunny and we’ll dry out around here; I just so need some bright light to help these melancholy moods]; when I had a Sunday call with a friend, she said she thinks these ‘blue’ days are pretty widespread with a lot of people right now in these uncertain, scary times…just have to work on ourselves with hope & faith…and, I guess, endurance, since life isn’t gonna have any kind of real normalcy for a long time yet…we just have to discard the disappointments with a sigh and trudge on [nevermore apropos, “Keep Calm & Carry On”, right?!!], and I always have to remind myself that I’ve got it easy compared to all those other people out there who have to still go to work each day in the germy environment [the ones lucky enough to still have a job but just praying they don’t fall ill from potential virus exposure]).
Claudia, can’t believe it, and I wasn’t yet ready with a list because I thought we were a good 10 days or more away from doing any further grocery shopping, but my husband just randomly dialed up the grocery home delivery service with our regular store (not thru Instacart) and we got a slot. A reservation for Saturday. How did we get so lucky?! Darn, I know I forgot stuff since I was caught unaware, but we’ll be grateful for what we could get, definitely concentrating on perishables this time, like yogurt & eggs, fresh veggies & fruit; it was our late-evening Easter gift, for sure (and I was able to FINALLY score some flour [yay] but still no baking yeast and definitely no paper towels as per usual). Just very unexpected after ALL the times we’ve tried to get this particular home delivery of groceries directly from our local store; my poor husband has had days of hours & hours trying to get a slot as you know. We definitely had to keep the cost ‘way down but, heck, if the only thing I got was one head of lettuce, I’m a happy girl. It was a rather ‘frantic’ hour (before the time was up!) of trying to load that shopping ‘cart’ and tally, sort thru what was available and what wasn’t, but we did it; sigh of relief for people like us who’ve made the decision to not go in the stores if we can possibly help it (although I know, in part, my husband is just itching to get out in the car and go somewhere/anywhere, do something/anything … but he won’t, for me, at least for now, due to all my susceptibility for complications from the virus [were I to get it] due to my underlying health issues, God Bless him).
(I have never spent so much time in my life trying to figure out ‘food’ [for the home and longer term] but it’s also becoming quite sobering when reading or hearing about more complications anticipated [possibly] from the ‘food supply train’ with so many farm workers and factory workers getting sick; like an example given, sure, cucumbers will still grow, but who will plant them, who will harvest them, who will get them trucked to the buyers? I heard one ‘expert’ on the TV saying that it could build to be a real problem by September if there’s not more focus and care put into the situation right now with these types of workers and their work conditions. I’ll sit there in wonderment as to my naivete; that these are things I never pondered, ever. That these would be real-life issues [like food procurement/food scarcity] in my lifetime. [Maybe the ‘doomsday preppers’ have had some of this right all along??!!] Or that because of all these worldly epidemic problems and manufacture of many things, I might not be able to get my medications [such as the latest, some of my asthma meds; just read a long article about it, and I hope the FDA gets on it soonest; my one rescue inhaler means the diff if I live or die {I had an acquaintance, someone I once worked with, who had an asthma attack when he didn’t have his prescription inhaler {medicine canister} on his person and his hard breathing put him into cardiac arrest; he didn’t make it, and he was only in his 40s; I was gutted to learn of it, I could definitely relate, and I mourned that man for a long, long time}]. Anyway, was my mind really so narrow; did I never think ‘global’ unless maybe it was something like climate change? What a false sense of security I’ve had…and what an ‘education’ I’m now getting…)
So glad you got a slot! Huzzah!
I think that last one is my favorite egg cup – but I love ducks! Those daffodils are beautiful!
Thank you Jane! Stay safe.
You might try digging up your daffodils after the foliage dies back. Dividing them every few years will keep them blooming. Happy Easter to you and Don.
Yes, I could do that, but they’ve been there for decades, most likely and they’re right on the edge of the woods. So I leave them alone. I have other daffodils which bloom later and they’re right in my garden bed. Thanks, Linda. Stay safe.
So sweet that Don brought you flowers!
It was warm here today; around 61 and sunny this morning. Our walk to the lake and around the neighborhood this morning was wonderful. Clouds soon moved and the rest of the day was overcast, but at least it remained warm-ish. Raining now and starting tomorrow it will only be in the 40’s the entire week. Ugh.
Yes, Easter this year was strange and a bit sad. Last year it was just me and Brian along with Tim and my aunt, but this year, of course, it was just the two of us. We offered to bring food to my mom and leave it on her doorstep and talk from a distance, but she declined. She said holidays are about being with family, not the food. I was a little taken aback because I thought that she’d at least want to see us (we haven’t seen her in a month) and she has said she’s lonely, but maybe seeing us from a distance would make it worse because she’d want to hug us and can’t. I dunno, I’m just guessing. Anyway…whatever you and Don ended up doing, I hope you had a good day.
We had a low-key day but that’s what we always have on Easter, so no change, really. I know you miss Tim and your mom and celebrating together. Stay safe, Melanie.
Don’s gift brightened not just your day, but ours as well. Thank you for sharing! It is very gloomy here and we’re scheduled for rain and high winds was well. I’m very worried for people in the state who don’t have generators. Lots of our power guys are up north after the snow storm hit Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine so hard. We have lots of old trees around our house, so the high winds are nerve-wracking, but the generator takes some of the terror away for me. Stay well!
Ah, you mean people like us! We have no generator and we also have lots of trees around our house. It’s nervous making. Stay safe, Nora.
Dear Both,
How amazing to have your own “ray of sunshine” come through the front door!
So lovely, both hubby and flowers.
Regards from BC Canada
Thank you, Janine! Stay safe!