April 4th, 2021
Today is Easter Sunday and for the first time in eighteen years I am home alone. A very strange feeling.
EM has gone for a weekend away with the BF, hiking somewhere in West Virginia. I spend last night hiding eggs for her and the BF to search for when they return. I also invited the BF and his parents for Easter dinner and spend the day roasting leg of lamb. To no avail as none of them showed up so now I am scrambling to find people to invite for dinner tomorrow so as not to eat lamb for the next week or so. I shall not even attempt to invite the BF’s family again.
EM came home beat and tired but well. We were invited on the spur of the moment to friends for a BBQ which we thoroughly enjoyed and are now having a movie night watching “The Pianist”. I fear not a happy movie seeing it is about life in the Warsaw Ghetto.
EM did have fun, albeit with muscle ache, finding all the eggs I have hidden. We have left the ones for the BF to discover at some other point in time.
I spend a leisurely morning at home, preparing food for a dinner which never happened. Two hours sunbathing. Then went to church – virtually of course. I did some work in the garden tidying up the leaves and pulling weeds before heading to the pool for my daily swim. Once back, more work in the garden a shower. I did a bit of work and was busy with some e-mails when the teen came home.
She had a lot of fun on her hike and is clearly fitter than the BF. Nonetheless, the outing seemed to have been a success, apart from a cold night in the back of the truck. The highlight of the day turned out to be the unexpected BBQ invitation we had at H. and J. house. They also had some neighbors over who proved to be an interesting and fun couple. The conversation of course revolved around the pandemic, vaccines and life going back to normal. Or whatever the new normal may look like. In the meantime the race between new infections (66k) and vaccinations (4 million today) continues.
Total infections are at 31.4 million. We shall beat the virus. We shall persevere and we will get our lives back!