White Easter

Our Easter here in Colorado was more like Christmas. It was cold with intermittent snow and rain and sleet on Friday and Saturday, and Sunday we woke up to a winter wonderland. Driving to church at 5:30 in the morning for sunrise service was more like driving home from midnight mass at Christmas. And once the sun did rise, it revealed a day of leaden skies and drifting snowflakes.

Nonetheless, the sunrise service was very interesting and a bit non-traditional. We lit candles in the darkness and then blew them out as the sun rose and light began to hit the windows behind the altar - someone had arranged some very good timing. The fellowship breakfast that followed was pleasant but not as good as it would have been at the Village Inn down the road. (perhaps i should give lessons to the senior high class on how NOT to overcook an egg casserole?)

spent a very lazy easter day reading the third inspector monk book (defend and betray) and baking a morman wedding cake (with brandied fruit in it) for dessert. terry made a lovely leg of lamb with roasted potatoes, and we had a variety of disliked vegetation (mushrooms that megan won't eat, brussels sprouts that i avoid, and asparagus that kent won't allow on his end of the table). It was splendid.

Saturday I sent out my Christmas cards. Only since it was so late - I sent out Easter cards. And since there were only about five people on my list who don't do email, I sent them out be email. My first guess was only one person who didn't do email, but as i went through the list, i found a few more. Suppose i had better actually buy some cards and mail them?

i downloaded the first five book set of Liaden novels to my computer last week, and plan to move them to my handheld before i take off for greece in may. although reading off the handheld is not my real favorite, it has it's positive points. i can read in bed at night in the dark which is very positive since few hotel rooms provide decent bedside reading lights. and i can carry a dozen books on one handheld computer half the size of a normal paperback - which definitely makes packing easier. when travelling i often carry duplicate paperback copies of the things i want to read and discard them in airports or hotels along the way, hopefully leaving room for the local purchases that i want to take home with me.

still no word from lisajulie. it occurred to me last week that over the last year, talking to her has become something like prayer. one knows the conversation is not really one sided, and that someone is listening at the other end, but tends not to expect a material response. wonder if she is reading this?

also convinced my loving husband to buy me a new recliner last week. it is big and puffy and covered in dark brown leather. i can sit way back in it with my lapdesk and my computer (and both phones) and put on my headphones and ignore the world. i can even work! and this chair, unlike the last, has room on the foot rest part for Sappho to lay with me - which is a very GOOD thing as she had taken to snuggling right along the bottom of the keyboard and she's really too big for that anymore. shall i have someone take a photo and post it?

i did some editing & captioning of my photos at sony image station. i'm -almost- done with my "best of greece" series from the 2004 trip. wouldn't it be nice if i got all that done before taking off for Samos next month? of course, if rivkarivkina would finish getting her film developed and providing me with the digital disks, that task would be easier, eh?

happy birthday

and a very happy birthday to mishalak!