Room rennovation complete.  Next Lanie is setting her sights on cleaning out the basement.  We will have our hands full when Savers and the Swap Shop open up again.

AND, she and her sister Zoe made homemade pasta for dinner — much easier to do now that we have flour.

Theoretically, there’s an actual eagle in this picture.

It’s cherry blossom seaon at the old town landing.  We are fortunate to have such a nice place to walk.  Twice this week we’ve seen a bald eagle flying around.  They’re tough to photograph, though, even when I remember the camera.

We can still consider ourselves sequestered even after a trip to Wagon Hill Farm, because the trails tend to be wide, and in the woods they don’t seem to mind if you step off between the trees to let someone else pass by.

Daisy is prone to socially distancing from other dogs anywat, so we don’t wind up next to people that much. This week we got to the park early enough for “off-leash” hours.

Cemita!

Today’s take out selection (by Zoe) was Street 360.  It was cemita heaven, and good fries, too.

Movie selection (by Nadia): Ocean’s 8.

Here in the artist colony, we’re keeping busy.

Today’s news cycle was totally dominated by Zoe’s official announcement of her committment to the University of Maine at Orono.

It was kind of old news around here, but we had to wait until our load of UMO merchendise came in the mail before we could make the big FB announcement.  Everyone got something, even Daisy.

Lost in all the excitement was the completion of another work table puzzle by Jen and the hardiness of our lettuce seedlings, which survived a torrid snow squall early this morning.

We’re still finding things to bring brightness to our day.  Some involve Daisy the dog.

Mostly they involve sugar.  Take, for example, Lanie’s homemade hot fudge.  It went on Salted Caramel Swirl ice cream tonight.

Also a game of Dutch Blitz  kept some of us occupied.  

Even after two consecutive Easter Egg Hunt Sundays, even after five weeks of Sequestration, Mondays are still more bleh than other days.

Some things to perk us up:

School lunch! (No chicken salsd this time)

Nightly dose of “Brooklyn 99”

What a wonderful, bright day for the second Easter in a week.  After some negotiations, we settled on a backyard egg hunt to honor Orthodox Easter and Grammy packed up much of the food she made for take-away lunches.

We took our lunches to the lake, where it was breezy and colder, but not so much that girls didn’t swim.

Some of the spoils of shopping. NB: I did most of the shopping alone; Zoe came with me to BJ’s. We both wore masks.

Today was an epic day of maketing: BJ’s first thing in the morning, co-op pickup after that; then a trip to the supermarket for anything that we couldn’t find in the first two places.

It was an extensive shopping list, but we were up for the challenge.  The only thing that eluded us was active dry yeast, which is disappointing because we now have plenty of all-purpose flour.

We should have enough yeast to make bread one day next week and pizza dough another  Otherwise, we may not need to hit the market for two or three weeks. Who knows what state the world will be in by then?

Other things that went on here today:

Nadia made a chocolate cherry cake.

Several rooms were cleaned out and many books were piled up.

Emergency vehicles put on a parade through our neighborhood.