I'd love to tell you all that we are living a huge adventure right now but alas.....we are still waiting along with the rest of the population. Most important news of the week...For those of you who have been on "cookie watch", the cookies arrived safely and are being happily consumed! We have managed to accomplish a ton of cleaning chores this week. We continue to work on the bilge (I told you that Youtube was wrong....) and I have decided that Gone Galt is much like Hermione Granger's purse in Harry Potter. The more stuff we pull out, the more stuff there is! We have wires that run to nowhere, boat parts that are at least 40 years old and some mystery items that we both stare at, shrug in confusion and toss out. Speaking of cleaning, I am pretty sure the end of the world is coming. My mother is cleaning out closets and she even has my dad doing housework...given that he doesn't even know that the dryer must be closed in order to start gives me doubts on the housework angle..... Sorry for the short blog this week but there just hasn't been much excitement down our way! Stay sane and Happy Easter to all!! Enjoy a few more pictures this week and a fun educational fact of the week! Educational fact of the week: The history of Easter Eggs!
Eggs have been used as fertility symbols since antiquity.[8] Eggs became a symbol in Christianity associated with rebirth as early as the 1st century AD, via the iconography of the Phoenix egg, and they became associated with Easter specifically in medieval Europe, when eating them was prohibited during the fast of Lent. A common practice in England at that time was for children to go door-to-door begging for eggs on the Saturday before Lent began. People handed out eggs as special treats for children prior to their fast. As a special dish, eggs would probably have been decorated as part of the Easter celebrations. Later, German Protestants retained the custom of eating colored eggs for Easter, though they did not continue the tradition of fasting.[10] Eggs boiled with some flowers change their color, bringing the spring into the homes, and some over time added the custom of decorating the eggs.[11] Many Christians of the Eastern Orthodox Church to this day typically dye their Easter eggs red,[12] the color of blood, in recognition of the blood of the sacrificed Christ (and, of the renewal of life in springtime). Some also use the color green, in honor of the new foliage emerging after the long-dead time of winter. The Ukrainian art of decorating eggs for Easter, known as pysanky, dates to ancient, pre-Christian times. Similar variants of this form of artwork are seen amongst other eastern and central European cultures.[13] The idea of an egg-giving hare went to the U.S. in the 18th century. Protestant German immigrants in the Pennsylvania Dutch area told their children about the "Osterhase" (sometimes spelled "Oschter Haws"[14]). Hase means "hare", not rabbit, and in Northwest European folklore the "Easter Bunny" indeed is a hare. According to the legend, only good children received gifts of colored eggs in the nests that they made in their caps and bonnets before Easter.[15]
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Betty Jamison
4/18/2020 08:08:21 am
I love the photo of the wires, I think I probably would have tossed them too! And, I'm still laughing about your dad not knowing that the dryer needs to be closed to work.
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