Day two into a three day weekend. No sign of rain today, only sunshine and bright blue skies. The temperature once again climbed to a June level, 83. If April is this warm, I shutter to thing about June temperatures.
Yesterday we considered leaving late afternoon for a short backpack but car shopping left us drained and we ended up on the couch with John’s son Lee, eating take out Friday fish fry from The Shrimp Dock. The dinner met all our criteria for comfort food but our stomachs were grumbling later in the evening as the grease began to settle. Friday night TV is boring so John and Lee snoozed intermittently until one discovered a show on the Galapagos. We all want to go to the Galapagos now!
This morning I lingered too long over computer and coffee and had to push myself out for a run. It was just an around the neighborhood and home effort, legs were a bit tired from yesterday’s Ijams effort, but I wanted to start the back to back to back running routine.
I took a slightly different street home and ran into this:
I can assure you that seeing a big bunny walking along the side of the road conjured up thoughts of Elwood and his invisible friend Harvey, but this Harvey was real life. Then I remembered a conversation with fellow Women’s Clubber, Nancy Staub, who told me her husband played the neighborhood Easter bunny every year. Sure enough, in the bunny costume was Jim Staub who was headed to the neighborhood Easter egg hunt.
The neighborhood association also decorates a small tree for special occasions. Below, I present the 2011 Easter tree.
Finally, we have been car shopping again today. We drove to Airport Honda to test drive an LL Bean package Forester we spotted two weeks ago. Unfortunately it had been sold about two days ago so we ended up test driving a Honda CRV and a Toyota Rav4. Game changers for us. We liked both cars better than the Subaru’s we had pretty much settled on. Will this car shopping misery never end?
Tonight, dinner with friends. Now that is something to look forward to!!
