Sunday, April 20, 2014

Easter Sunday

Listen! The rooster calls!  (So so early!)

Let the chickens out. It's Easter.

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Eggs still warm from the coop, gathered for breakfast.


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Wait: Scotch's Sunday egg is missing. Let's give her a few minutes.


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Okay. Thank you! Easter breakfast at the farmhouse.


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But Easter midday dinner at my older girl's home.

I watch my girls in the kitchen. They are both tremendously talented with food.

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Today, I do no cooking at all. My older girl fixes the entire complicated meal and it is superb. We hang back and let her put it all together.


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Here we are, all of us, in various combinations:


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I feel myself to be so incredibly lucky.

We leave the post dinner mess to my girl and her husband (thank you!) and my little one and her fiancee drive north and Ed and I drive south, only their drive is close to five hours and ours is close to fifteen minutes. Life is unfair that way.


The chickens are excited to see us return. They hover in the courtyard as Ed and I transplant tomato seedlings (and put in our cucumbers seeds). Last count: 115 thriving tomato plants.


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Today the temperature topped 70F for the first time since early October.

A beautiful Easter Sunday. Truly beautiful. Full of hugs, sweet words, great foods. So very, very lucky... 
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6 comments:

  1. DianeMon Apr 21, 12:01:00 AM

    So happy for you. We had a lovely day too,

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  2. JoyDMon Apr 21, 06:41:00 AM

    I loved the relaxed, easy humor apparent in these pictures. Isn't food a very great pleasure? I noticed what you had there...mm mm .

    My husband made a small but excellent Easter dinner, with just our one son who lives in town... I hid little doggie treats for his two, and they enjoyed it just like children! We sat out on the patio until late in the evening, listening to the birds, and then the genius Miles Davis.

    We had a Saturday Easter dinner hosted by our daughter-in-law's lovely family. It was the culmination of a huge week for her, because her first book came out on Tuesday!

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  3. ninaMon Apr 21, 06:59:00 AM

    Diane -- I'm looking forward to reading about it!
    JoyD -- than you for this account. Reading stories of other lives -- people whom I "meet" through Ocean is a treasured experience! What is the book, btw?

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  4. BexMon Apr 21, 10:23:00 AM

    I love the little lobster item hanging on eldest daughter's kitchen wall... are they lobster lovers?

    Happy Birthday m'dear...

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  5. ninaMon Apr 21, 10:31:00 AM

    Bex -- for reasons of unfortunate sun exposure early on in their relationship, there is this nickname that my daughter has for her husband...

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  6. JoyDTue Apr 22, 07:33:00 AM

    Nina, thanks for asking about daughter's book, Open Road Summer, her first book published by Bloomsbury. Her second, not a sequel, will be published next spring. It's Young Adult fiction - Em is a feminist writer especially for teen and college girls.
    If you had two minutes in your busy day, and if you visited her website, emerylord.com, you'd see two quick clips of our son Jon in her video short. He's such a sweet-faced boy, it's sometimes hard for me to believe that he's a 30-year- old doctor!
    Bloomsbury arranged for a lovely debut party for her, and much traveling this spring. What an exciting time!

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