BS: What'd you do for Easter?

Subject: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Raptor
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 10:53 PM

I Bought a new Nikon D50 Friday.

Canoed through the Minesing Swamp Saturday.

And went to Algonquin Park to Shoot a Moose Sunday.

Heres the Moose

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Raptor
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 10:54 PM

What'd You Do?

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: number 6
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 11:16 PM

Congrats on the new Nikon Raptor!

I went out on a photo shoot onto the Kingston Penninsula here in N.B. on Friday... got some good shots, no moose though, ... was my first serious outing with my new Nikon. Great camera's the 60 and 70 models.

Had a combined easter/son's birtday supper Saturday nite ... it isout grandson's first easter ... needless to say we dolted on him.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 11:32 PM

Thanks for the moose photo, Raptor.

Here at our house we had what i call National Catholic Week. Church Thursday night, church Friday night, church Saturday night, church Sunday morning. In addition to singing in the choir we did volunteer things.

Our church is a traditional-style building built in 1933. The ceiling is 55-feet above the floor. My dear husband (the DH) and a friend of mine have the task of going into the space between the ceiling and the tile roof and lowering swathes of diaphanous fabric through openings in the ceiling. They have to wear safety harnesses to do this, and they communicate with people below using walkie-talkies. The people below catch the fabric and attach it to the pilasters to make long misty arcs.

Why do it, really? Well, I guess it doesn't cost much money and it makes our church our own.

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Kaleea
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 11:43 PM

I was feeling puny & stayed home. Missed seeing my little great neice, 17 mos., on her first egg hunt. But, her mommy came home with lots of pics.

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Janie
Date: 16 Apr 06 - 11:48 PM

We drove up the Charleston, WV to spend time with parents. My very old and wonderful father-in-law took us out to a good French restaurant, I helped my Mom and the rest of her altar guild decorate their sanctuary for Easter services, and we just had a good visit.

The only flaw was the current high price of gasoline here in the southeast.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 12:50 AM

Some friends called and said they had rescued a big bullfrog a couple of weeks ago and wanted to know if they could come release it into our farm pond where there are already a number of bullfrogs living. We said "Sure," and they brought this huge frog out and dumped it into the pond. Well, the thing was either still ill from whatever caused our friends to need to effect a frog rescue in the first place, or it had forgotten how to swim in the two weeks it's been living in an old crockpot with a half-inch of water, or maybe it was just so happy to be freed from captivity that it lost its mind, but it immediately began to swim upside-down, needing to be rescued before it drowned. Then, after it had finally figured out which way was up, it swam into our lilly pads, got tangled up in them and had to be rescued again. We finally decided that it'd probably be best if the thing tried to acclimate itslef to its new environment on dry land, so we took it to the small island in the center of the pond and left it there figuring it'd either come to its senses and remember that frogs know how to swim, or it wouldn't, in which case it'll make some possum, racoon or great blue heron a tasty meal.

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 01:43 AM

Think legs here, BWL.

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: DMcG
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 02:54 AM

My camera (Fuji S602) has a very limited set of lenses that can be fitted but I recently came across a CrystalVue LX gadget which is basically a telescope that can be screwed onto various otherwise awkward cameras, including mine. So I ordered one and spent much of Easter Saturday out at a bird sanctuary trying to get the hang of using it. Not bad, but certainly more practise is needed.

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 04:19 AM

Feckin' Hell, thank God for that! I thought he meant he'd REALLY shot a moose - on Easter Sunday of all days! :-)
S:0)

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 04:26 AM

Day out with aged relative. Muppitz gig that night. Back home to struggle with this song, I can't play.

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: sian, west wales
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 05:33 AM

Well, I always go through all the versions of the Easter story in the Bible: the Good Friday bits on Good Friday, and the Resurrection bits on Sunday.

Apart from that, I had a lovely day out shopping in Cardiff on Saturday with a friend looking for an outfit for another friend's wedding.

Then yesterday, we went searching for the old home farm of this other friend's great uncle. This is an odd story of coincidences.

I met this other friend when we were young and members of the Welsh Church in Toronto. Her mother was from west Wales.

In recent years, I find myself living in west Wales and working in folk music, and I've developed a particular interest in this one singer who died in the '60s and left close to 90 songs on tape in the National Museum. Anyhoo - in chatting to this other friend, it turns out that this guy is/was her mother's first cousin so the last time she visited we went to his home village and found the grave of his parents and sisters - which gave the name of their farm as well. Since then, I've found it on ordnance survey maps and yesterday we found the place - all derelict and broken, but quite a sense of achievement anyway! And my dossier on him is daily a-growing.

Today, it's Easter Tea at yet another friend's place (so many friends!). A good long weekend indeed!

sian

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 05:47 AM

Stayed home. Read magazines. Wor won ton soup and fried tofu for dinner.

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Alice
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 09:08 AM

Hung out in bathrobe, had migraine briefly (took imitrex), tried to sleep, watched tv and read mudcat, listened to the rain water dripping through the ceiling into a bucket.

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 09:14 AM

Stayed home. We went to church Saturday night so we could (some dude had memorized the entire Genesis story of creation, which impressed me -- that and that they skipped half the readings and the music was pretty good and they even had a TRUMPET!). But on Easter we stayed home. I fixed grits souffle (see MOAB for the recipe) for breakfast, and wild salmon in lemon-butter-dill for dinner.

And it snowed last night, and we could get up to 8 inches.

This is Spring????

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 11:34 AM

We had our traditional Easter Sunday picnic. I spotted the first blue heron of the season and we listened to the geese honking along the lake. I also got a glimpse of the easter bunny. I had no idea he was 50ish, balding and something apparently happened to his ears and cute cotton tail as they were both missing. ;) Nothing like watching grandparents hiding eggs in the park for the grandchildren...it was very sweet, indeed. :)

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Alice
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 12:06 PM

Snowed all night and still coming down, like Rapaire in Idaho. Part of the same storm front..... yeah, I'm really ready for it to STOP. We often have an Easter snow storm that makes cars get stuck on the streets and church parking lots dressed in their Easter sunday best clothes.

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 12:08 PM

I stayed in bed with a migraine.

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 12:21 PM

Drove 2 hrs. Sat. nite to pick up kid and his GF from college---drove an hour to relatives on Sunday...ate WAY too much, but got a tour of classic auto collection maintained by our host..a 1942 Buick Roadmaster, a 1953 Plymouth sedan, a 1971(?) Corvette, (one I forget) AND a white, 1947 Lincoln sedan with leather upholstery.

drove 2 hours to take kid and his GF back to college.......collapsed into bed.

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Alba
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 12:22 PM

Oh no CatsPHiddle!
Were you not going to Miskin?
I hope the ache is lifting now Darlin.
Brightest Blessings
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 12:51 PM

The head is fine now thank you Jude. Migraine was probably brought on by paint fumes from decoring the dining room!!

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 12:55 PM

Spent it at Miskin with most of my very best friends. And my son got his first girlfriend!!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: GUEST,maire-aine
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 12:58 PM

Nice moose, Raptor. I made Beet Soup on Saturday, so I could use up the vegetables before they went bad. Went up to Main Street (with some other Raging Grannies) and sang anti-war songs in the afternoon-- the weather was beautiful, sunny and unseasonably warm.

Went to church on Sunday. Came home and got the storm windows stored away (they stay inside the window)so I could get some fresh air in the house. Dusted floor and moved furniture in the dining room. In the evening, I read an instruction manual for work on Monday.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: autolycus
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 02:32 PM

Went to London thurs to visit my 89-y-o mum, who, following my dad's death last summuer, is doing reaally well.

Went to a passover meal that night;first time I've been to one led by a woman, and my first vegetarian Pesach.

Friday visited my niece and fambly, then my sister, who finally got to say how devilishly (my word) handsome she thought I am. (Well, somebody has to say it.)

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 02:49 PM

I sang and sang and sang - and the singing turned out well-nigh perfect this year so it was a real pleasure.

I also was asked to take part in a dramatic presentation of the Stations of the Cross, and that worked out very well, too.

And I spent nine months preparing eleven people for reception into the Catholic Church, and I think it was a good experience for them. I got all misty at the Easter Vigil, when my "fledglings" received the sacraments.

And to top it all off, we had a Polish Easter dinner at home yesterday - stuffed cabbage, borscht, ham, hard-boiled eggs, and lots of horseradish and just the right amount of beer.


-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 02:53 PM

that moose -it's brown. almost a chocolate moose. perhaps its a gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 02:53 PM

Worked 24 hours. With my team, co-ordinated ten search and rescue missions. I also enjoyed a turkey dinner with my family, and had one glass of wine during the meal.

Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 03:24 PM

Assisted Mrs. fB in kitchen/dining area redecoration/compered Karate Tournament/hauled ashes/assisted Mrs. fB in failing to finish redecoration of k/d area. Watched "Curse of the Were Rabbit" and so to Mud.

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 08:43 PM

I stayed home and dined on a peculiar menu:

Black coffee, cranberry juice, beef bouillon, chicken bouillon, and coke. Inspiring, no?
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This morning I went to the doctor's and had a colonoscopy.

Three polyps removed and sent to pathology. It will be maybe five days before I get the results.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Apr 06 - 11:34 PM

oh, sounds like LOTS of fun, Dave! Waiting will be interesting, too.... (those polyps are usually minor....we'll count on good news soon.)

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Flash Company
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 08:01 AM

S & I joined up with a dear friend from Northants who was house, cat and guinea pig sitting for her son in Holmes Chapel.
Went to Biddulph Grange Garden on Sunday afternoon. As someone else put it, This is Spring?
Still, we caught up on six months of talking.

FC

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 09:00 AM

For me, "What I did for Easter" includes Lent, too.

The Great Litany
Shrove Tuesday
Chairing the monthly meeting with a candidate for ordination
Ash Wednesday
Lenten Suppers all around the convocation Wednesday evenings
Topical music for the Saturday Night Service each week
Palm Sunday
Maundy Thursday
Vigil at the Altar of Repose
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
Good Friday
The Great Vigil of Easter (read one of the lessons by candlelight)
Made early Easter AM brunch for homeless men at shelter (this is a project I chair twice a year separate from the parish's outreach)

In between these I arranged and laid out one songbook (players' copies and people's words-only booklet), transcribed/wrote/edited text for the next songbook from recordings, and filled in missing arrangements for the last songbook. Many tousand bottles of whiteout gone.

And kept my husband and critters fed on my own (usually husband helps) while husband ran the parish and led all those liturgies.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: MMario
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 09:15 AM

lessee - good friday I read at church as one ov the 'voices' in a modern version of the stations of the cross (I hated the thing on first reread through - but it grew on all of us) - then had to go pickup the dog from Gramma as she had pulled a gorin muscle and couldn't take care of him - so the dog came back home with me to join us and our house guests for the weekend.

Saturday I shopped and cooked - Staturday dinner was spiral cut ham, a sweet potato and carrot passover dish; beet relish and a raddichio and blue cheese ap[petizer we "stole" from a cooking show. Did dishes about 4 times on saturday - levftover dishes from Friday nights, breakfast, lunch, dinner , snacks....

sunday did more dishes, did the dogs laundry, went to church - where I had the pleasure of my god-daughters; the 4 month old was awake and vocalized through all the huymns with me; she had her breakfast during the sermon - then fell asleep in my arms for the communion. The older god-daughter (4 years) was beautifuylly arrayed and very well behaved. Gotta love 'em

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Raptor
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 07:19 PM

Good luck DaveO

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 07:25 PM

Addendum to my post above:

The bullfrog died. Found it floating in the pond this morning providing breakfast for a bunch of non-bullfrog tadpoles. Figured it'd start stinkin' after a while so I fetched it out and buried it in a garden bed. So it goes.

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 07:33 PM

How does one ascertain that a given tadpole (or group of them) are "non-bullfrog" tadpoles?

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 08:13 PM

Even bullfrog tadpoles are BIG. They stay in the tadpole stage for two years.

Most of what's in our pond are toad tadpoles, the result of the annual early spring toad orgy. There are millions of them this time of year. They'll be hopping out onto land in a few weeks and there'll be so many of 'em you'll hardly be able to take a step without squashing one of the little buggers. We have a daughter-in-law who refuses to visit during the month of May because stepping on little toads disturbs her so much.

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: MMario
Date: 18 Apr 06 - 09:18 PM

yup - toadpoles and bullfrog tadpoles and greenfrog tadpoles are easily identifiable.

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Raptor
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 11:23 AM

They all taste different too!

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 12:25 PM

Rejoiced.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 02:04 PM

I spent my Easter at Miskin Folk Festival in South Wales,GB.We all had a jolly good time too didn't we MBS Lynne.
Scooby

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: autolycus
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 06:21 PM

P.S. Came back from London on the coach next to a bloke who was going to have a smoke at our one pit-stop.

I asked him what would happen if he didn't have a smoke. He said,'Nothing', and didn't.


   Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: GUEST,Padre without his cookie
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 10:51 PM

Celebrated two Masses of the Resurrection (9 AM and 11:15 AM)

Visited 4 hospital patients and gave them the Blessed Sacrament

Had dinner with several of my parishioners

Padre

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 11:29 PM

Good Friday--sang the Mozart Requiem.

Easter--Jan played Easter Bunny for some neighbor kids. Very little chocolate in baskets--by parents' request. But some crafts--a big hit. But Jan didn't disguise her handwriting. I think the jig is up.

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 08:53 AM

"spiral cut ham"
another cultural gap... :-)


Was going to stay at friends place and read my sound meter and document teh excessive loud noise coming from the Gospel Music Festival (AGMF - 150,000 watts of amplification - Come Feel The Noize!) but due to life, didn't get there - luckily I had taken the meter up before...

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 09:14 AM

I know what you mean, Foolestroupe. I've always meant to make some stickers to put on keyboards and amplifiers, "God Is Not Hard Of Hearing." If I ever do them, I'll send you a few. I've walked out of churches where the sound was so deafening that it gave me a headache. Or would have, if I hadn't left.

The Catholics are very quiet... :-) BLack churhces seem to like their gospel REAL LOUD.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Apr 06 - 08:51 PM

150,000 watts of amplification (90% of which is bass boost!) is Rock Noize (Remember Slade?) not Gospel Music to me! And when the same PA system is used over a week end for ages of a lone voice screaming "Repent! Repent! Repent! Repent! Repent! Repent! Repent! Repent! Repent! Repent! Repent! Repent! Repent! Repent! Repent!..." doesn't seem much like a MUSIC festival to me, let alone 'Gospel Music'... and when a 4 year old comes out of her bedroom asking 'Mummy, why do the Christians in the park hate me?" from what she hears inside her own bedroom from half a kilometre away...

If you really want to see want some neighbours think - PM me, and I'll give you some web pointers.. :-)

I made it publicly known that there would be noise meters in the neighbourhood suburbs this year, and the long time residents said it was much quieter! The noise permit said onsite max 70dB daytime, 50 dB after 10:30pm - 66dB daytime a kilometer away, shielded behind other houses, is a bit much! People working on site got headaches, and met with refusals to turn it down! I have said that maybe they are deaf as well as 'drunk on the spirit of the Lord!" :-)

But so much for thread drift (except for the fact that Easter may be seen as as an UNpleasant time by some!) - this really belongs in a 'Music vs Noise' thread.

Would LOVE the stickers!, Thanks! He may not be hard of hearing, but he may be tone deaf... :P


Robin

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: vectis
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 06:46 AM

Drove to South Wales. Parked van. Spent four days drinking and singing, dancing, playing and generally having fun with a couple of hundred like minded people. Drove home with hangover.

This is the Miskin experience...

Subject: RE: BS: What'd you do for Easter?
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 08:39 AM

With 2 old school friends, sailed a trimaran out of Southampton, putting in at Swanage, Weymouth, and Poole on return run.