Easter weekend recap

We don’t celebrate Easter as a religious holiday, but I personally like taking a moment to mark the season of growth and rebirth in nature, as well as eat candy, throw confetti eggs at each other, and eat a big-ass dinner with lemon bars for dessert. As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, April is the cruellest month… but it also makes me think about things happening in cycles, accepting that change is inevitable and often exhausting, and how we still manage to go on even when we think we can’t.

I wrote in my last post about the dozen or so peacocks roaming the neighborhood. This guy took his sweet time sauntering across the street, hollering at the peahen two houses down. Turn your sound up! But not too far up. These guys are loud as hell. One of the neighbors told me that several of the peacocks stand on her roof and scream at each other shortly after dawn each day. She calls the main culprit “The Captain.” As in, “For God’s sake, Captain, shut the fuck up!”

This little bunny is now 16 and no longer will wear the Bunny Ears of Adorableness. He woke up sick on Easter morning (and is still sick two days later), but that didn’t stop him from eating an entire chocolate rabbit and half a bag of Cadbury dark chocolate mini eggs.

My mom sent us a lovely easter plant! Its flowers are silk and so I cannot kill them, and also the cats won’t eat/shred them!

On Saturday, we had a mini garage sale. The real one is on May 3, but we just put a few things out to try to get rid of them early. Last time we held a garage sale, which was probably 15 years ago, I vowed to never have one again. This time it felt like no big deal, so I don’t know what happened last time around that annoyed me so.

And to cap off garage sale day, we had tacos with friends! Joel took this great photo of us outside of Taco Joint, which captured a rare event: a smiling teenager.

And because the news is, as usual these days, heartbreakingly terrible, I think we all need to take a moment to soak in the cuteness of Mr. Snuggs and Artemis here.

One final thought: I cannot at the moment think of a grosser flavor combination than pancakes, grapes, unsalted peanuts, and warm syrup. This seems like a Pantry Cleanout Casserole.