Happy belated Easter. Happy opening day of baseball. Happy to see the snow melting.
Happy to see posts from Peter and Andrew of their updates from spring break. Andrew also started the rounds of college tours with Daniel, heading over to Michigan. Did I say college and Daniel in the same breath? Yes, Hard to believe. Before we know it, it will be college tours for Auden and Donald. And over in Fairport, David had spent a few days in Albany doing his commission work.
We had a full house this Easter, and happily so. On Friday, we needed two cars to pick everyone up who came in on the same train over in Hudson New York, as you can see above in the photo. We were happy to welcome Leonore, Joe's friend from Portugal, who has just moved to Washington.
We rushed home to dinner where our friends from Lagos, Peter and Jan Lochery, joined us. They were up here from Atlanta looking for houses, having enjoyed their stay with us last summer. And they put an offer on a house in Richmond and it looks like it was accepted. They have a house in Wales where we stayed two summers ago, and now they'll have a U.S. base, in the Berkshires.
John and Marilyn came over the next night for dinner. They are weeks away from closing on their house, and are spending much of their time here cleaning out their house, and giving away its contents. Serious downsizing project. I made Grandma's Easter egg cake for desert, which we ate a day before, since we knew we'd be too stuffed from our Easter dinner at the Red Lion Inn.
We actually worked off some of the eating and imbibing as some of us went for a hike in Pittsfield State Forest, and Joe and did some running, or at least Joe did with his 18 miles and I managed to shuffle for 8 miles. There were a couple of serious games of Catan, I think it's called, a board game that seems like part Monopoly, part Risk, part SimCity. But no Oregon Trail. Another treat was the choir at the Easter service in Pittsfield. From Africa. Who woulda thought? Andrew and Margaret went shopping at the Lee outlets, and we also watched Wisconsin upset Kentucky but only to lose in the final game. Too bad. And we watched Annie and Margaret try to squeeze in some homework for their courses.
We had just seen everyone the week before, with a quick trip down to Washington and back through New York on the way home. We took advantage of an invitation to a "house concert" at the home of one of Mary's former teacher colleagues to stop in and see everyone. Since we had to be down mid-day on Friday, we headed out late Thursday to see how far we could get. And guess where we stopped? Hightstown. We had dinner at the Americana Diner and saw Meadow Lakes - they still have not torn down the buildings where Grandma's apartment was.
Among other news is I have a new job, I started today, as an "interpreter" at Hancock Shaker Village. I hope I did not get in over my head. It's for just a couple of days a week, but it looks like fun. I gotta lot to learn. David, any tips?
Peter sent along the other photo from his trip to Florida. This is cousin Rell, who looks so much like her father, especially holding a big fish.
That's the update from here; hope you're all well, healthy and happy. Love
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