“Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.”
Happy Easter!
I set my alarm for 7:00 and sneaked down to my neighbor’s yard to decorate the tree by their deck. Just as I was nearly finished, the back door was opened and the dog came out. She wagged her tail and walked over some pats. The door was closed behind her, but I left right then with a few eggs still in the bag hoping I had escaped unseen.
The vet could find nothing wrong with Gracie. All the tests for a stroke were negative. He suggested, as a couple of you did, that she had eaten something in the yard or had something caught in her teeth. I gave her one of her Easter treats this morning: a dog cannoli. She bubbled at the smell, and it disappeared in a heartbeat. She still has another cannoli and a frosted bunny left. Gracie likes Easter.
The day is sunny and bright, a bit chilly but a spring morning chill, the sort which disappears as the day grows older. It’s a quiet morning on my street, the way Sundays used to be. Not even the dogs are barking.
My friends and I will go out to dinner this afternoon to our Easter restaurant. It is a dressy place: men wear suits and most women wear dresses and some even have hats. We wait for a table by the window as the view of the ocean is amazing. The surf hits the rocks and the water spews into the air. Seagulls swoop over the water and we can hear their loud squawks through the glass. The food is delicious and the drinks remarkable.
Sometimes the Easter Bunny left our baskets on the kitchen table. Other times we’d find them on our bureaus. The big chocolate rabbit was always in the middle, in the most prominent spot. I remember some rabbits were hollow while others were pure chocolate inside and out. I liked the jelly beans and black was always my favorite. I loved sticking out my black tongue, an Easter phenomenon, for everyone to see. We never had a big breakfast on Easter morning when we were kids. Mostly it was cocoa or tea and toast. Nobody wanted food. We wanted candy.
I don’t like soft peeps. They have to be so hard they make a noise when tapped on a table. That was how they arrived in Ghana after two months in transit, and I have loved then that way ever since then. My mother used to buy them, open them and let the air make them hard. Right now I have two small packs of opened peeps too soft still for eating.
I wish you all a wonderful day.
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April 20, 2014 at 10:43 am
The Egyptians are fundamentally naughty. Charlton (Athletic) Heston was trying to sort them out in “The Ten Commandments” on NBC last night, and half way through we headed to the Chapel for the Easter vigil to be confronted with more Egyptian bad behavior culminating in the Big Guy sticking some chariots in mud and then washing them away.
In the Old Country we didn’t have a six foot tall Blue Bunny delivering stuff. We needed to get my Mother a Lindt Egg, and we usually got one filled with Smarties. We would go to St Mary and St Nicholas Church.
The Prince is elsewhere for the first time, and we have a small gathering of 9. I have been domestic while the Premier League flashes across the screen. The good guys won yesterday morning.
To the KTCC family, wherever you are, may your God be with you.
April 20, 2014 at 11:33 am
My Dear Hedley,
When I was growing up, we could always count on The Ten Commandments sometime during Easter week. It seems that tradition has returned. I watched only a bit of it.
I still get a basket and do one each for my friends. I used to do a basket for my mother and sister when I’d go to my mother’s for Easter dinner. She also would have one for me. I enjoy putting the basket together and wrapping the small gifts. I had no Easter paper so I had to use Christmas.
I don’t think we ever had as many people as nine until my nephews were born. My brother and his then wife always went to Easter at my mother’s house. They always brought a lily.
Sorry the Prince is elsewhere.
I wish you a holy and happy Easter, a celebration of rebirth.
April 20, 2014 at 11:06 am
Easter eve is the big day here so that’s when all kids get their Easter eggs filled with candy, today is the day everyone goes to relatives to have dinner.
I’m glad Gracie is healthy as always 🙂 It’s always better to make sure so I would have gone to the vet too.
We don’t have peeps over here but I know what they are. Here we have chickens made of marzipan and the feet of the bigger ones are always dipped in chocolate. I don’t think I’ve ever come across a filled Easter bunnt though, the ones I’ve eaten has always been hollow. The chocolate eggs however are always filld with some kind of nougat. I do like yelly beans but never liked those eggs that are colorful on the outside but white on the inside, they just taste dry.
Have a nice dinner and have a good continuing of Easter!
Christer.
April 20, 2014 at 11:50 am
Christer,
Easter eve was just for taking baths, no celebrations until the next day. We usually had Easter dinner at home then went visiting relatives.
I was relieved after the vet saw Gracie. He did suggest blood tests as she hasn’t had any in a while, but they are $200.00 which I don’t have right now.
Marzipan isn’t as popular here. I can find it mostly at Christmas in stores in Italian neighborhoods. I always buy a few for decoration. I never liked those eggs either, the ones with white in the middle. I like Jelly Belly jelly beans was they have the best flavors. They added a new flavor this year which I already know I won’t like: it’s beer which I don’t drink.
Happy Easter!
April 20, 2014 at 1:08 pm
Have a wonderful Easter holiday. I have outgrown the big milk chocolate rabbit and now crave the milk chocolate cream filled Cadbury eggs. Will you wear your Easter bonnet (wide brimmed hat) today?
April 20, 2014 at 6:40 pm
Bob,
I wore a different dress which my hat did not match, but I was still quite well dressed. I brought my purse which is from the 1940’s.
The day was lovely!
April 20, 2014 at 2:20 pm
Traditional Easter fires are supposed to help chase the winter away. I thought you need one this year. Yesterday’s fire close to my home isn’t online yet, but maybe an older Easter fire will also help you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWtnJ5t6g9w
Sunny 72 F this afternoon over here, we went to church (just because my friend is singing in the choir), painted and ate eggs and went by bike to a closed mine where we saw the huge original 1893 steam winding engine. We’ve had a nice day.
Enjoy your meal and Happy Easter to all of you!
April 20, 2014 at 6:44 pm
Birgit,
I loved that Easter pyre. It would have chased away the cold. Fires always smell so good.
We might have gotten to 50˚ today. I can’t even imagine 72˚. The table by the window was toasty warm. There was a mother fox and her kits living just outside the restaurant in the brush but none of them showed up though we kept hoping.
Dinner was delicious and the day was a good one!
April 20, 2014 at 6:30 pm
Hi Kat,
Glad to hear that Gracie is okay.
The Easter Bunny left our baskets on the dining room table. Hollow Chocolate Bunny in the middle, smaller chocolate covered marshmallow bunnies around, Peeps, jelly beans scattered liberally throughout the fake grass. There were usually those awful chocolate covered coconut eggs, too. I tossed those. Blech.
And now I am reminded of a book I read not too long ago; The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse. It was vaguely reminiscent of Jasper FForde and funny.
Easter was good. The food and wine were good as was the company. I hope your Easter is great, too.
Enjoy the day.
April 20, 2014 at 6:54 pm
Hi Caryn,
I was relieved by the vet’s no diagnosis of anything wrong. It was pretty strange.
I got everything you did except the coconut eggs. Now I wouldn’t mind them as I am such a fan of coconut. When we were older, the chocolate was better quality as my mother shopped at the chocolate store. I loved peanut butter eggs.
I have read all of Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next books and some of another series I don’t remember, but the title you mention is unfamiliar to me.
My Easter was also so great. I came home and took a nap, always a sign of a good time!
Have a great evening!!
April 21, 2014 at 7:54 am
Oops, sorry. It’s not a Jasper Fforde title. I think it’s Robert Rankin.
Jasper Fforde is coming to the Boston area in October(?) if you are interested.
And you probably wouldn’t have liked the coconut eggs. Not much coconut flavor in them. Chocolate, creamy stuff, coconut texture and sweet enough to make your teeth rot just by looking at them. Horrid things. I picked the chocolate off and threw the rest away.
April 21, 2014 at 10:36 am
Caryn,
I was excited at a Fforde I hadn’t read. Where will he be in Boston?
Have you read the Thursday Next novels?
You’re right-I would not have liked those eggs by your description. I like coconut without ay fuss.
April 21, 2014 at 11:13 am
Kat,
I don’t know where in the Boston area he is supposed to be. He’s got a two week schedule of US appearances in October but his appearances page doesn’t show specific cities. My friend Lisa is a rabid fan. I expect she will keep me updated.
I’ve read Thursday Next and a lot of the Nursery Crime ones. My favorite of his is Shades of Grey and I am impatiently awaiting the second book which was supposed to be out last year. He’s been working on his Dragonslayer series instead, I think. I’ll check that one out, too.
April 21, 2014 at 1:17 pm
Caryn,
I forgot about the Nursery Crime books which I have also read. I don’t think I read Shades of Grey. I’ll have to do some hunting.
April 21, 2014 at 3:55 pm
Don’t confuse it with 50 Shades of Grey. Totally different book. 😀
April 21, 2014 at 4:28 pm
Caryn,
I do know about the other one though I never read it. I am reading a book called Night Film, and I really like it.