While I am saying Happy Easter, it really isn't so happy for this world today. Easter is a time to get together to attend church services and have a special meal with loved ones. This year we will be using media to get together and I think my Easter lunch will be a pasta casserole.
I have had trouble writing to you but felt it necessary to carry on the tradition. Angela suggested I write about happier Easter's past so here we go with a short trip down memory lane (the only trip we can take for now).
Easter on the farm as a child my family always had turkey dinner with all the trimmings, in the proper dining room, with grandparents and friends.
Skipping ahead, when Bruce and I left Canada for our first long stay in Heidelberg, Germany I started this blog to keep in touch with family and friends. We arrived beginning of April 2012, Easter time and the above cartoon was on my first post. We listened to the prolific church bells that rang from four churches in the town below, being on the hillside we certainly had a great advantage to hear them.
After three years of Semana Santa in Sevilla with Bruce I became tired of the noise from the celebrations directly on the street in front, but maintained the highest respect for the tradition.
I vowed to get away for the fourth and managed to invite myself to Lagos, Portugal with Ryan and Angela.
http://bevbrucelexi.blogspot.com/2019/04/happy-easter-and-im-in-lagos-portugal.html
When the virus hit Spain and I wondered about the crowds that gather for Semana Santa, and two weeks before isolation Rocio said that the celebrations had been cancelled along with the April Fair. Unprecedented is the word that applies this year.
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| Gift from Bruce for Easter, I miss him! |
As I am writing this I can hear multiples of church bells!
That is all I will say for now except to repeat the relevant: Stay home, stay safe and try to have patience through these difficult times.
Cheers, Bev and Lexi Cat who is snoring as usual
