Eggs stracting a good time!

Those celebrating Easter yesterday were greeted with blue skies and warming temperatures. We had a fairly busy day, all in all. I started it out by going over to Leonardtown to see the revival of an early tradition, the Easter Egg Hunt on the lawn of the Sterling House. Of course it is now home to the Front Porch restaurant, and the owners want to establish more links to its historic past, so this was part of that effort. Their plan was to have two “hunts”, one for the younger crowd and another for the six and older set (no, i didn't participate!). I arrived via the side of the house to be used for the little people and it was apparent that “hunt” was a relative term.



The eggs were not exactly concealed



But the idea was fun, not rooting around in the undergrowth. And, the hosts for the event didn’t neglect the adults, as they provided refreshments in the form of little pastries, coffee, tea, and other appropriate libations.



Which were turned into Mimosas upon request which went well with the warming temperatures.

Decorations used tulips that were trying to awaken





As the time neared to begin the hunt, little bags were made available for the hunt crowd to use in gathering the prizes



And even the easter bunny made an appearance much to the delight of the little kids, who seemingly all wanted to touch his ears. I am not sure of a tradition here or not.



Another feature was that in each hunting area there was concealed a “golden egg” which contained a special prize. For that egg, a little more care was taken in selecting it’s hiding place.



But finally it was time to start and all the kids lined up for the countdown



And the hunt was on!



It was an exciting time and everybody thoroughly enjoyed themselves, including the winner of the Golden Egg!



Hopefully this nice local event will become another Tradition.

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For dinner we decided we would resurrect (!) a rack of lamb that had been slumbering in the freezer for quite a while, so I prepared a marinade of garlic, rosemary and olive oil.



And MFO prepared some root vegetables for roasting.



And began with appropriate (probably not very traditional) starters.



We had a lovely time with some good friends, just chatting and enjoying the food. I will, however have to bare my soul and admit the lamb was cooked longer than I had hoped. It turned out “medium” at best. Sigh.. But, as I always say, it could have been burnt and we still would have had a great time. I took a chance and opened a Virginia (eastern shore) red table wine. It was very good, but not over the top.

Okay, enough for today, maybe another look at the MOMSTER and some spring nostalgia that sprung (ha ha)to mind the other day.

Oh yeah, even for medium lamb we were indeed

DFD