CANADIAN EASTER

Easter has come and gone and now we march on towards summer. The weather is pretty much the same, neither warmer or cooler. Actually it has been pretty murky this last week or so and Easter was cool and drab.

This past Saturday saw a huge hailstorm hit OK Falls. Tammie and I missed it as we were in Penticton shopping but on our return home the surrounding mountains and streets were covered with small hailstones. It looked more like a carpet of snow.

Easter in Canada is pretty much the same as in Australia, commercialised and overdone. Like everything else she does Tammie throws herself into the celebrations with gusto. I never knew until this year that there was such a thing as Easter decorations. Well there is and Tammie has most of them.

Our house was decorated with eggs in all shapes and sizes. Eggs that were oversized and gaudy. Eggs that sparkled and shone. And just plain old eggs that were painted and decorated. Of course you have t\o have Easter bunnies to go with the eggs and these also came in a variety of guises.

 The piece de resistance though was the fluffy bunny and Easter chicken that were lit with optic fibres and a glowed in a multitude of colours. Tammie is so proud of that duo. A tree outside the house was decorated in Easter eggs and tinsel lay everywhere around the house.



Now I am used to Easter egg hunts. My kids always had a blast finding them and then a huge fight dividing the spoils. Tammie has an egg hunt for her children but the difference is that the eggs are hollow and some contain $2 coins whilst a few of the others contain cheques. Of course there are chocolate eggs as well but these are just a by-product of the hunt.



Coincidentally when the girls counted their booty we found that there were three unaccounted for Easter eggs. It appears that I am such a good hider of eggs I forget where I hid them. No doubt they will turn up over the coming weeks/months.

But that isn’t the end of it once the egg hunt is over the girls go on another hunt for presents. Unreal! Now I am not sure if this is just a house tradition or a Canadian tradition but my guess is that it is the former rather than the later.

We wrapped up the day by going for a long walk with the girls to the abandoned quarry. This is something that the girls would never normally do but as it was Easter and broached as their gift to their mother they really had very little choice though that didn’t stop one of them bitching and whining most of the way. No doubt those of you that know Cameo and McKenzie will be able to guess which one.

 

I am at a crossroads with my book at the moment as it is just sitting, waiting. I haven’t touched it for over two months I have just lost all interest in it. I am prepared to let it sit there but Tammie isn’t and she is lighting a fire under my backside to get moving with it. To that end she has made an appointment to meet with an editor in Kelowna to discuss publishing the book. I really appreciate her faith, foresight and perseverance and I will just wait and see what the outcome is.

 

I have been having some late nights from Thursday’s through to Sunday’s lately as I stay up to watch my favourite teams in the Australian National Rugby League (NRL) and Australian Football League (AFL) competitions.

To be awake at 3am in the morning to watch your team lose is a real bummer. Then again if it was like the last weekend where both of my team’s, the South Sydney Rabbitohs (NRL) and the Sydney Swans (AFL) record fantastic wins the lost sleep is worth it.