The big highlight today was the elementary school staff parade some of us took part in.  There were enough cars (and enough streets to cover) that we were able to break into three separate caravans for the parade.  We were among about 10 cars in Caravan 3.  Jen drove so I could wave to the populace and take a few pictures.

Here’s some friends.

More friends (Jen seems to be swatting them with her enormous hand, but she’s really just waving.)

More here.

A lot of people who aren’t in elementary school anymore wanted to see this parade.

Even the teens these days are nuts about a parade.

“Seed 1” of the Kindergarten Seed Game project has sprouted!  I can’t tell you what it is because the kids are supposed to guess, but I have shared that this is something we plan to eat when it grows bigger.

Speaking of growing bigger, the 20+-year-old tree we bought at the church yard sale four years ago has found its way into a new vessel.  It will probably increase in size because of the move.  Then again, it could die rapidly.  I’m not great with houseplants.

Zoe and Lanie are performing a duet at Lanie’s (online) group violin lesson next week.  Today they previewed their version of the Game of Thrones Theme during Lanie’s (online) private lesson.  Ms. Louise claims to not be familiar with the song, though she’s clearly from North of the Wall.  Anyway, she says she liked their performance.

One of Zoe’s Easter gifts arrived only two days late.  It’s a game about growing bamboo for Pandas.  Long-time readers of this blog might remember that Jen and Zoe actually visited an actual Panda Preserve with actual pandas in honest-to-goodness China about a year ago to this very day.  Lanie and I have no chance of ever winning this game.

It’s actually three loaves baked into one.

Check out this big loaf of bread I made.  That’s what happens when you can find flour.  Tomorrow we’ll have sandwiches with leftover Easter ham.  Today, we had it with lentil soup.  Hats off to Catherine Newman, who gave us both the bread and the soup recipes via her blog (it’s also great for board game recommendations).

Speaking of games, today there was another round of Patchwork that Daisy had to try not to upset with her pouncing feet.

This was the first Easter in more than 20 years that Jen and I spent in our own home.  This was such a special occasion that even the Easter Bunny himself gave us a drive-by wave.

It turns out that Easter in New Hampshire has many of the things we’re used to doing when we go to Massachusetts:

An egg hunt!

Easter baskets!

Coloring eggs!

Just Dance tournament!

Ham dinner!

Cupcake decorating!

That Wii was a great purchase.  We’ve had it for at least 10 years and it still keeps us entertained.  We may not be at the forefront of console gaming, but no one seemed to mind during today’s MarioKart tournament,

When we weren’t racing, we did these things:

Practiced for the next Quarantine Concert Series installment

Terraformed Mars

Invented lasagnadelli

Not many things happened today that we haven’t showed on past Sequestration days, but I did get my picture taken at work and it did wind up on the school web page.  That was exciting.

Also today:

Lanie got sneakers in the mail. (she was expecting purple, but she had forgotten that purple was not in stock so we ordered grey. The confusion shown here was quickly solved.)

Crunchy bean street tacos for dinner!

This week has been marked by increasingly calming news.  A few days ago we starting hearing less gloomy health forecasts.  Today we discovered that getting to the grocery story before 8 am improves our chances of finding the things we’re looking for.   Check out that picture above.  Note the all-purpose flour and toilet paper.

We were also able to find white eggs, just in time for coloring them for Easter.

The cats are fine,

A day that starts that well is bound to be filled with good stuff:

It was rainy and a little chilly this afternoon.

Takeout was a day early this week for some reason.

Zoe’s almost finished with her pottery project.

Jen’s still measuring out cloth for masks.

We’ve been getting school lunches and breakfasts this week.  Here is two days’ worth for three girls (see featured image above).  That’s right, 12 cartons of milk.  And canned peaches! How lucky are our girls?

Also in the works today:

I tried to convince kindergarteners that marshmallows grow on trees.

We had a church board meeting.

Tomato soup and grilled cheese for dinner.

File footage of Brooklyn and Nadia walking

Two days of sunshine in a row made it seem like we were being rewarded for all of our good quarantine behavior.   We tried not to go too crazy running around, but we did spend some time outside.

Most of that time was in the garden, though Nadia did go for a walk with her friend Brooklyn (no photo available).

In other news today:

Lanie had a violin lesson….

…and an aerial dance conditioning session.

Zoe made waffles….

…and played Suspicion.

We are still appreciating in-house laundry.

The Dais needs a bath.

Sap jugs ready to be cleaned out

They say the sound of the peepers is the death knell of the sugaring season.  So we pulled in our taps today.  In truth, we haven’t boiled any sap in two weeks or so.

Lanie cleans up her garden bed.

The warming weather has urged us to switch into gardening gear.  I’ve planted several plots of seeds, filming in some of the planting for the kindergarteners, but Lanie really took off in the garden today.

Zoe was helpful in the garden, too.

She cleared out two beds and spent time imagining what she might want to plant in them.  We’ll make a list and take one big trip to the garden center — I hope it’ll still be open — in a few weeks.

Socially distant book exchange with a neighborhood friend at the end of the driveway

Here is some more of what happened today:

Imphotep tonight — it’s not important who won.