Day 841: Happy Easter!

2067 miles!  Home again after a very long drive over two days.  It was gorgeous today which made for easy driving compared to yesterday, but we would have preferred to be out in the yard.   We got home at 6:00 and immediately went for a long walk.

Traffic was heavy as all the northerners had to return home after vacationing in the south.  North of Pittsburg, we came upon an accident that had just happened.  We pulled over to help and found a family of four who had been in an SUV and a woman who was driving a truck.  A seventeen year old girl was driving the SUV and her dad was next to her.  In the back seat, grandma and mom.  Fortunately, none of them were badly hurt, but they were very shaken.   All the airbags had deployed so they had sore necks, bruises and scrapes.  The girl sobbed and shook in her mother's arms.  She only has a permit and her grandmother fears that she will never want to drive again.  Steve checked out all the victims and we stayed with them till the rescue squad arrived.

Daffodils are finally blooming in our yard!  Hooray!  

It was a strange Easter.  We are not religious people, so church is not a part of this day, but I very much miss the rituals of the past.  Our family always loved coloring eggs.  The kids competed to see who could make the darkest purple egg or the brightest yellow.  They loved to make stripes or add designs.   We enjoyed preparing baskets for them packed with little trucks and candy.  Usually, on Easter day we went for a walk in Arkwright and had a picnic at the creek in Burnham's Hollow.

Molly and Paddy were happy to see us.  They spent way too much time inside while we were gone.  The house is thick with fur!  I vacuumed the carpets three times already tonight!

West Virginia blossoms

I'll start uploading pictures for the week tonight and continue over the next few days to fill in the past week's entries.