Happy Easter to those who observe.
This is a second attempt, I had another post drafted and didn't like it. I hope this one is better.
1: What is your favorite holiday or festival?
2: Have you ever gone far away from home for a holiday?
3: When was the last time, if ever, you were in a church?
4: Where are you today?
5: Chocolate bunnies or eggs?
My Answers:
1: What is your favorite holiday or festival? United States Thanksgiving in November.
2: Have you ever gone far away from home for a holiday? We went to Paris for Christmas on year.
3: When was the last time, if ever, you were in a church? As of writing this, I was in Christ Church Episcopal in Alexandria, VA in March, George Washington had a box there.
4: Where are you today? Eastern Atlantic Ocean
5: Chocolate bunnies or eggs? Eggs, then I don't have to decide if I eat the ears of the tail first.
Please share your answers in the comments.
What is your favorite holiday or festival? Halloween and Thanksgiving are neck and neck.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever gone far away from home for a holiday? One year I was in Portofino for Halloween. It threw me off for some time
When was the last time, if ever, you were in a church? A few temples in Nairobi ffive months ago.
4: Where are you today? Home. On the menu is lamb with lemon and rosemary and crumbled feta, beets, honey and ginger glazed parsnips and asparagus.
Chocolate bunnies or eggs. I already had a egg. And my mother always gives me the obligatory chocolate bunny
Have a sweet weekend.
Delete1: What is your favourite holiday or festival? Christmas with family and feasting and memories of the last seventy Christmases.
ReplyDelete2: Have you ever gone far away from home for a holiday? Yes. I went to Easter Island, Seattle, New Zealand, Greece, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, South Africa, Morocco, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Ireland, Canada, Malta, Portugal, Ohio, Florida and Georgia.
3: When was the last time, if ever, you were in a church? About three weeks ago in Hathersage, Derbyshire.
4: Where are you today? Sitting at this computer in my immaculately tidy study in South Yorkshire.
5: Chocolate bunnies or eggs? My wife has just given me an Easter hedgehog with a little Cadbury's cream egg up its arse.
Hedgehogs don't lay eggs do they?
DeleteNo. Lady hedgehogs "lay" litters of four or five hoglets. Hedgehogs are mammals.
Delete1. I honestly don't think I have one. Maybe the december holidays for all the cookies.
ReplyDelete2. I was in Paris once for Thanksgiving. I did not have turkey.
3. It was last August - at a funeral for one of my mentors.
4. About to get oatmeal and then go on a 5.25 mi run.
5. I'm not sure I've had either. But if either one it'd have to be dark chocolate - and they almost always look like milk chocolate
Dark Chocolate is best
Delete1: What is your favorite holiday or festival? Three Kings Day
ReplyDelete2: Have you ever gone far away from home for a holiday? Too many times to count. But not anymore.
3: When was the last time, if ever, you were in a church? Last week, but not to pray.
4: Where are you today? Home
5: Chocolate bunnies or eggs? Both.
Chocolate anything as long as it is good chocolate.
Delete1: What is your favorite holiday or festival? Thanksgiving because it's friends and family and food and drink.
ReplyDelete2: Have you ever gone far away from home for a holiday? Mexico City for Carlos' mother's birthday which, because she's nearing or above 100, is quite the holiday.
3: When was the last time, if ever, you were in a church? I could not tell you; they are not my kinds of spaces.
4: Where are you today? Home relaxing.
5: Chocolate bunnies or eggs? If it's a Reese's Peanut Butter Egg then okay; otherwise I pass on chocolate.
I like Cadbury Cream Eggs
Delete1: What is your favorite holiday or festival? I like Thanksgiving and Christmas about the same.
ReplyDelete2: Have you ever gone far away from home for a holiday? No
3: When was the last time, if ever, you were in a church? A few weeks ago when I went to that Vivaldi concert.
4: Where are you today? at home and later I'll be at a friends house
5: Chocolate bunnies or eggs? Bunnies
Bunnies are so cute.
Delete1. My favourite holidays are Samhain/Halloween and Winter Solstice/Christmas.
ReplyDelete2. I am always at home in Canada for the holidays. When my parents were alive, I would travel from Alberta to Manitoba to spend the holiday with them.
3. I am never in a church unless there's a funeral or a chamber orchestra concert being held there. It's probably been at least a year since I was last in a church.
4. Today I am home here in Edmonton.
5. Chocolate bunny please! I ate half a Lindt bunny yesterday and will finish it off today.
When my parents were alive I went to Florida most years for Thanksgiving.
Delete1. Thanksgiving
ReplyDelete2. No
3. I was at a funeral service last year in a chapel.
4. Home and family is coming for dinner
5. Jelly Beans.
I haven't had jelly beans in years.
Delete1. Thanksgiving, even though we never have turkey.
ReplyDelete2. Paris for my 45th birthday but I guess that wasn't a holiday so Florida for a Christmas with my wife's family one year.
3. Probably 30 years ago for a funeral.
4. Home.
5. Cadbury Eggs would be nice but neither this year. I do have some Dark Chocolate Kisses though!
Not everyone enjoys turkey.
Delete1: What is your favorite holiday or festival? Hmmm. It used to be Xmas. Now it’s Thanksgiving and my Birthday (at least until I retire, since every year brings me closer to it.)
ReplyDelete2: Have you ever gone far away from home for a holiday? We’ve spent Xmas and Turkey day in CT the last few years.
3: When was the last time, if ever, you were in a church? We got married in a Unitarian Church in 1999 (It was important to Jeffrey at the time.) I’ve only been in a church one other time…for a family members funeral. We sat in the back pew and slipped out ASAP. I am physically uncomfortable in Churches and morally opposed to them.
4: Where are you today? At home in upstate NY.
5: Chocolate bunnies or eggs?
Both! (But Jelly Beans are the best.)
Sassybear
https://idleeyesandadormy.com/
Birthdays are great, I went to Detroit one year for my birthday, I was in Chicago on my 50th (speaking at a conference on elder abuse.) I did a triathlon on my 30th.
Delete1: What is your favorite holiday or festival? Thanksgiving, because you can spread it out over the four days, it is non denominational so all are able to participate to their desire.
ReplyDelete2: Have you ever gone far away from home for a holiday? The strangest Christmas ever was December 2000 after my mother died. I wanted to get out of the Tule fog, so I flew down to San Diego. Lovely Christmas Eve service in the church on Coronado Island, a white knuckle drive back over the bridge in the fog, and the weird change of the Marriot Corporate soundtrack to standard Musak on December 26th (technically the second day of the Christmas season).
3: When was the last time, if ever, you were in a church? Last night for the Easter Vigil
4: Where are you today? Went out to Folsom Lake for a picnic. A nice change of pace, and I have the leftovers for lunches this week (YAY!).
5: Chocolate bunnies or eggs? Eggs - See's Bordeaux or Mayfair are preferred, however since they are on the list of prohibited foods, I buy them to give to friends who no longer get Easter baskets
Will Jay.
I spoke at a conference at Folsom a few years ago, a session on legal decision making capacity for long term care ombudsmen.
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