This was the first Easter in more than 20 years that Jen and I spent in our own home.  This was such a special occasion that even the Easter Bunny himself gave us a drive-by wave.

It turns out that Easter in New Hampshire has many of the things we’re used to doing when we go to Massachusetts:

An egg hunt!

Easter baskets!

Coloring eggs!

Just Dance tournament!

Ham dinner!

Cupcake decorating!

That Wii was a great purchase.  We’ve had it for at least 10 years and it still keeps us entertained.  We may not be at the forefront of console gaming, but no one seemed to mind during today’s MarioKart tournament,

When we weren’t racing, we did these things:

Practiced for the next Quarantine Concert Series installment

Terraformed Mars

Invented lasagnadelli

Not many things happened today that we haven’t showed on past Sequestration days, but I did get my picture taken at work and it did wind up on the school web page.  That was exciting.

Also today:

Lanie got sneakers in the mail. (she was expecting purple, but she had forgotten that purple was not in stock so we ordered grey. The confusion shown here was quickly solved.)

Crunchy bean street tacos for dinner!

This week has been marked by increasingly calming news.  A few days ago we starting hearing less gloomy health forecasts.  Today we discovered that getting to the grocery story before 8 am improves our chances of finding the things we’re looking for.   Check out that picture above.  Note the all-purpose flour and toilet paper.

We were also able to find white eggs, just in time for coloring them for Easter.

The cats are fine,

A day that starts that well is bound to be filled with good stuff:

It was rainy and a little chilly this afternoon.

Takeout was a day early this week for some reason.

Zoe’s almost finished with her pottery project.

Jen’s still measuring out cloth for masks.

We’ve been getting school lunches and breakfasts this week.  Here is two days’ worth for three girls (see featured image above).  That’s right, 12 cartons of milk.  And canned peaches! How lucky are our girls?

Also in the works today:

I tried to convince kindergarteners that marshmallows grow on trees.

We had a church board meeting.

Tomato soup and grilled cheese for dinner.

File footage of Brooklyn and Nadia walking

Two days of sunshine in a row made it seem like we were being rewarded for all of our good quarantine behavior.   We tried not to go too crazy running around, but we did spend some time outside.

Most of that time was in the garden, though Nadia did go for a walk with her friend Brooklyn (no photo available).

In other news today:

Lanie had a violin lesson….

…and an aerial dance conditioning session.

Zoe made waffles….

…and played Suspicion.

We are still appreciating in-house laundry.

The Dais needs a bath.

Sap jugs ready to be cleaned out

They say the sound of the peepers is the death knell of the sugaring season.  So we pulled in our taps today.  In truth, we haven’t boiled any sap in two weeks or so.

Lanie cleans up her garden bed.

The warming weather has urged us to switch into gardening gear.  I’ve planted several plots of seeds, filming in some of the planting for the kindergarteners, but Lanie really took off in the garden today.

Zoe was helpful in the garden, too.

She cleared out two beds and spent time imagining what she might want to plant in them.  We’ll make a list and take one big trip to the garden center — I hope it’ll still be open — in a few weeks.

Socially distant book exchange with a neighborhood friend at the end of the driveway

Here is some more of what happened today:

Imphotep tonight — it’s not important who won.

Even though it’s a weekend, Zoe was busy with schoolwork today.  Her biology lab report was met with a collective yawn around the house, but the Bakeshop project that took up most of her afternoon gathered much more attention.

Also I tried some fruit tree grafting at home and at the camp.  Maybe this is the year one of the grafts will take.

Here’s hoping the electrical tape will hold.

AND, I saw two snakes in the woods!  Or it was the same one twice and it moved fast.

Looks pretty fast to me.

I swear I read somewhere that the new Star Wars had been released early for streaming.

It was a stress-free Saturday.  The sun finally came out.  We could spend some time outside.  We signed up for a free week of DisneyPlus so we could see that most recent Star Wars movie, only to find that that movie isn’t actually on DisneyPlus yet, so we watched the newly-released Pixar movie Onward, instead, and really liked it.  It was that kind of day.

Here are some highlights:

The line of yellow grass to the left side of the picture was the high water line for this weekend’s high tides.

Epic Everdell

Epic fort building

Sneaker shopping online

Fondinner!

A few words about alcohol:  We get the idea that a lot of people are using their downtime around their homes to drink a lot.  That’s not how it works for us, exactly.  We, the adults here, usually have a drink in the evening, but that’s usually it.

In fact, our recent practice is to share a pint-sized can of beer a little before dinner.  That’s a cup apiece.  We got in the habit because of our friend and Jen’s co-worker Dan, who often brings cans like this back for us when he visits Vermont.  Half a can is enough for us.  Thanks, Dan.

Of course, one could argue that this led us to break our quarantine a few days ago in order to visit Smiley’s Discount Beverage at the Big Bend in Dover.  It’s really only breaking quarantine if you consider beer a non-essential item.  Our governor, upon announcing a stay-in-place order last week, specifically mentioned breweries as essential businesses.  True fact.

Photo highlights from today:

Takeout boneless wings from the Wing-Itz Butchery in Newington

It turns out they didn’t release The Last Jedi on Disney Plus after all.