Egg day! Traditions must be observed.

UP, and it's dark and damp out-- rain in the forecast. It's mid-30s, so I hope it warms up a bit before it rains much. Ice sucks.

I'm so far over winter, it's not even possible to say how much. Yes, we are now in the mud season of our lives, but the grass is greening, the Canada geese are clustered on the girls' soccer field in Lisbon, and it looks like they are starting the whole nesting/egg laying process. Which is interesting to me-- it feels too cold to lay an egg (wouldn't it freeze?), but yet, they know what they are doing. The flooding last week is gone, and the grass is green, and they are happy right where they are beside the river. 

Nature does tend to "go on," doesn't it? A bear tore down the suet feeders (yes, I know... but here we are). Then it tore down the heavy red metal feeder (it's dented, but G will fix it, he says). Now all the feeders are taken in-- which is kind of sad, because the birds are a fun little distraction. I ordered a set of four ground feeder baskets (easy to just pick up, stack, and take in nightly). 

Today, after Holly is done school, we'll color eggs. I boiled a dozen, and I have a coloring kit. Some traditions must be observed, eh? Meg is due home for today, but will be back to work tomorrow until Saturday evening. At least she has Easter Sunday off. She's been gone for a week at work, and Holly misses her. Well, we all do. And re-establishing norms is very difficult when you've only got a matter of hours to do it. So, we'll color eggs. A shared project is fun, and serves well as an ice-breaker of sorts. And folks need ice-breakers when a family member is gone for stretches of time. Re-entry is awkward at best. 

That all said, I hope your day is a good one. Blessings abound in nature, if not in the human world. But I suspect there's blessings aplenty there, too, if we know where to look. 

C