Happy Easter to all who celebrate. We’re having our customary dinner of grilled lamb (marinated in a yogurt-lemon-onion mixture for 24 hours and studded with garlic before being placed on the big green egg), mashed potatoes & gravy, creamed spinach, roasted veggies, and Yorkshire pudding. Julia’s boyfriend’s family are bringing dessert—which I assume will be something chocolatey and delicious. I’m back at work on Tuesday—but at least I’ll have tomorrow to sleep it off, lol.
Deb, for the first time in 40 years, Diane and I are NOT spending Easter in Ohio at Diane’s sister’s house. All of Carol’s sons are out of town for this Easter so Diane invited Carol to celebrate Easter with us. We’re taking Carol to a swanky restaurant for dinner tonight. Your Easter feast sounds fabulous!
Happy Easter to the Kelley clan and to all who celebrate it and who follow George’s blog. (And, since I’m sure the entire world follows George’s blog, that’s a lot of people!)
Jerry, Happy Easter to you and yours! I’m franticly working on my blog so there will be posts this week while we drive Diane’s sister Carol back to Ohio.
Jeff, Carol’s son Dave dropped her off at our house on Thursday. Dave and his wife have to work tomorrow so they’re leaving for Ohio today. We’ll leave for Ohio on Tuesday and return on Thursday. Diane is planning another trip to Ohio at the end of May to attend her niece’s High School Graduation. I’ve been to a dozen High School Graduations but I’ll go this one last time…
Jeff Meyerson
I just accidentally deleted a whole long post. Rats. If Deb’s lamb was an option, I’d be there, but since it isn’t, we’re having bagels and lox (Kirkland salmon), cream cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions and cucumbers, which Jackie considers a necessary component (but which I skip, as they come up on me).
Sadly, they’re pretty damned dark everywhere, thanks to our idiot and his playland pals foreign and domestic. My sister is shopping around for a good country to duck out in for a while, at least, and the choices keep narrowing.
I did help Alice set up her videogame array in the living room again–we hope temporarily till we find our AWOL cat, who is enough pain in the ass that we have to keep her segregated from our elder cat…the latter gets the living room as part of her territory…and made us both some reasonably complex salads for supper.
Happy Easter, Xians and fellow-travelers! And certainly a nod to Passover and Eid earlier for the fellow Abrahamic and their friends and families…and all the April Spring/Autumn holidays!
Hope the drive is a pleasant one for y’all, George. Do you do soundtracks, or mostly talk, during the long-distance drives? When by myself in a car for one, mostly NPR or the odd Pacifica/Indy public station or college station…infrequently a cd or the like, if radio fades.
Sorry to be wishing you a Happy Easter so late in the day. We don’t usually pay much attention to Easter, except to avoid going out if we can. I hope your dinner went well and you are all having a good time while Carol is visiting.
Tracy, we took Carol to Russell’s Steaks and More, a favorite swanky restaurant in Western NY. Easter brought out plenty of people who craved steaks! I had a NY Strip Steak, Carol and Diane had Filet Mignon. Desserts were Lemon Cake and Gelato and Belgian Chocolate Cake. Yummy! Hope you and your husband had a pleasant Easter!
Happy Easter to all who celebrate. We’re having our customary dinner of grilled lamb (marinated in a yogurt-lemon-onion mixture for 24 hours and studded with garlic before being placed on the big green egg), mashed potatoes & gravy, creamed spinach, roasted veggies, and Yorkshire pudding. Julia’s boyfriend’s family are bringing dessert—which I assume will be something chocolatey and delicious. I’m back at work on Tuesday—but at least I’ll have tomorrow to sleep it off, lol.
Deb, for the first time in 40 years, Diane and I are NOT spending Easter in Ohio at Diane’s sister’s house. All of Carol’s sons are out of town for this Easter so Diane invited Carol to celebrate Easter with us. We’re taking Carol to a swanky restaurant for dinner tonight. Your Easter feast sounds fabulous!
Happy Easter to the Kelley clan and to all who celebrate it and who follow George’s blog. (And, since I’m sure the entire world follows George’s blog, that’s a lot of people!)
Jerry, Happy Easter to you and yours! I’m franticly working on my blog so there will be posts this week while we drive Diane’s sister Carol back to Ohio.
So then, you’re still going to have to make the round trip to Ohio and back.
Jeff, Carol’s son Dave dropped her off at our house on Thursday. Dave and his wife have to work tomorrow so they’re leaving for Ohio today. We’ll leave for Ohio on Tuesday and return on Thursday. Diane is planning another trip to Ohio at the end of May to attend her niece’s High School Graduation. I’ve been to a dozen High School Graduations but I’ll go this one last time…
I just accidentally deleted a whole long post. Rats. If Deb’s lamb was an option, I’d be there, but since it isn’t, we’re having bagels and lox (Kirkland salmon), cream cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions and cucumbers, which Jackie considers a necessary component (but which I skip, as they come up on me).
Enjoy the day.
Jeff, I love soft bagels with Philly Whipped Cream Cheese–and coffee, of course! Diane’s favorite veggie is cucumber.
Have you tried the English seedless cucumbers? They’re a little pricier, but they don’t have the same digestive effects as regular cucumbers.
Deb, Diane prefers the English seedless cucumbers for that very reason!
No. Don’t know them. But, to be honest, I’ve never been a big fan of cucumbers. 🥒
OK, maybe it was the seeds. Jackie actually cut the center out of the cucumbers for me (not my idea), and I haven’t had any trouble since.
👍
And there is a wider variety of cuke flavors than one might suspect. Tough to tell the good ones from the less good till one samples.
Happy Easter to all of you in these “Interesting Times”!
Wolf, the times are Dark here with a Constitutional Crisis looming.
Sadly, they’re pretty damned dark everywhere, thanks to our idiot and his playland pals foreign and domestic. My sister is shopping around for a good country to duck out in for a while, at least, and the choices keep narrowing.
I did help Alice set up her videogame array in the living room again–we hope temporarily till we find our AWOL cat, who is enough pain in the ass that we have to keep her segregated from our elder cat…the latter gets the living room as part of her territory…and made us both some reasonably complex salads for supper.
Happy Easter, Xians and fellow-travelers! And certainly a nod to Passover and Eid earlier for the fellow Abrahamic and their friends and families…and all the April Spring/Autumn holidays!
Hope the drive is a pleasant one for y’all, George. Do you do soundtracks, or mostly talk, during the long-distance drives? When by myself in a car for one, mostly NPR or the odd Pacifica/Indy public station or college station…infrequently a cd or the like, if radio fades.
Todd, our Nissan Rogue has Sirius/XM radio so Diane has access to a couple hundred radio channels. No fade on Sirius!
Sorry to be wishing you a Happy Easter so late in the day. We don’t usually pay much attention to Easter, except to avoid going out if we can. I hope your dinner went well and you are all having a good time while Carol is visiting.
Tracy, we took Carol to Russell’s Steaks and More, a favorite swanky restaurant in Western NY. Easter brought out plenty of people who craved steaks! I had a NY Strip Steak, Carol and Diane had Filet Mignon. Desserts were Lemon Cake and Gelato and Belgian Chocolate Cake. Yummy! Hope you and your husband had a pleasant Easter!