And tomorrow Pascha (Easter) time (liturgically for this year) ends

Do you see it?

In the above picture, 

of my second breakfast since I somehow woke up at 5 AM this morning (!)

I had a plate on top of a plate so that my luncheon dishes 

remained fully set and ready for later! 

Between second breakfast and making the egg salad for the luncheon,

I went to the pool!

And was the ONLY one there.

It was gloriously freeing :)

Upon the lifeguard's suggestion, I had fun swimming diagonal laps 

I did at least 6, which is 9 normal laps (.5 more than non-diagonal)

and when I was done, I went home and made the egg salad...

(recipe down below for this!)

A little gift for my friend who came :) 

Minced fine a small 1/4 of a medium onion,

6 boiled eggs

sparing amount of mayo

one demitasse spoon of french mustard

salt, pepper = My Mom's Delicious Egg Salad 

of which I called her for the recipe yesterday for, as I could not find it!

(did I ever tell you about when I was learning to cook,

I called my Mom to ask her how I would go about boiling an egg :)....)

By this time (above) the butter and spreadable cheese was on the table,

so clearly Cleo wanted to be nearby...(!)

My friend  brought the chicken salad with dill and it was so SO delicious.... 

Had my last Pascha basket treat for the season... 

(Pascha is what Orthodox Christian's call Easter by the way)...

a yummy chocolate treat... 

tomorrow is the "leave-taking of Pascha" which is exactly

what it sounds like...

Pascha is taking leave of us, and ushering in the celebration of

Christ's Ascension (which is Thursday, our Easter being a week 

behind Western Easter this year)... then 10 days later is Pentecost... 

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I had a very nice time at tea/luncheon with a dear longtime local friend...

it was so nice to talk, catch up and share things that 

are from the heart...and enjoy delicious food... :) 

which I put out again for dinner...

Mr Husband and I watched a Walton's episode tonight...

I love our Walton's Dates! We are on season 7 now... 

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So the dress I described that I wore yesterday is this one:

It goes just past the knee in length and was so 

comfortable and fun in the summer time!

I have a little white knit (actually it looks crocheted...) 

shrug/bolero jacket that I wear with this dress...

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This afternoon I shipped my godkids's Pascha bread and 

 chocolate chip cookies ... both straight from freezer,

with 3 ice packs each and the silver mylar/reflective bubble wrap

that I used packing tape to entirely close around the

baked goods and frozen solid ice packs....and then

put it in box with padding and taped the box sealed shut 

as well...they will both be delivered DV by Thursday and 

my guess is that they will be fine (i.e. not melted) upon arrival...

I did my best anyway (and the price point for 1 day was going to be 

a LOT more money than 2 day!) and I am so so glad it is finally 

shipped! Whew... 

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So a busy but good day... 

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My cousin Wes began Chemo today.

My friend Photini has more medical things this week,

asking prayers.

Oh! and I go to NYC tomorrow to see my retina specialist.

(if you are new to my blog, I am having some sort of eye trouble 

and had 4 tests in the last month or so and tomorrow I am to find out 

the results etc).

So prayers welcome also for this!

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So much suffering in this world

may God help us all!