Several years ago a leak in our shower dug a hole in our kitchen ceiling. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger's father noticed this, over a The Facetime family gathering, and grew even more anxious about this than we ourselves are. So he finally came over this Sunday, with the intention of patching it himself. He took one look at the real thing and judged it was too big a hole to patch. He promised to give the name of a guy who'd done great work for him repairing his own stucco. I don't know whether he has, though.
With ceiling repairs out of the question, we all went to what otherwise would have been bunnyhugger's and her mother's side expedition. That was a trip to Van Atta's, a local gardening store with abundant, well, everything. We always get some plants for her mother; this was a rare time when she came up and shopped herself. Van Atta's was enforcing a mask policy, even though their building is, like, 75% greenhouse with sides open to the outside. And everyone was masked well, a great comfort. We all got a lot of things, now that there's time to think about tending the yard.
The mistake we made was going in her parents' car, without thinking about how it's got rather less storage space than bunnyhugger's or even mine. We had to drive home with, like, bags of potting soil under our legs or a flat of plant starters resting on the center seat.
bunnyhugger's father treated to dinner, Jet's Pizza. This was the first time we'd gotten anything take-out since bunnyhugger's birthday. We were ready to have it delivered when the online system told us it'd take up to an hour and a half, at which point I volunteered to call them and have it changed to me picking it up, when it'd be ready in only a half-hour. The change was surprisingly controversial with her father who, I think, vastly overestimated how difficult it would be to drive there and back. In fairness, the best road there was torn up for construction so it was more annoying to drive to than should have been. Still, we had pizza, and bread sticks, and that was a wonderful treat. And were able to spend an afternoon with her parents, in our house. It was almost like a normal summer might start.
So now let me start a bunch of pictures from our Easter visit to bunnyhugger's parents'. It was the first time we'd done much of anything since Christmas since, you know, the pandemic got way way way out of control and we weren't yet fully vaccinated. (By Easter I wasn't vaccinated at all, although her parents had been and bunnyhugger had gotten her first shot.)
A bounty! Hard-boiled eggs getting ready for the dying, on Easter afternoon.
Pupper! bunnyhugger's parents' smaller dog takes up the form of napping without the substance.
Their larger dog, now, just hopes that I'll stop being all, you know, present and suspicious and all.
We brought Fezziwig to her parents' for the weekend, so they could have a last time seeing him. He peeks out to figure what my deal is.
He's a little more secure, now, but not so much as to emerge from his tea box.
But he'll give a little nod in what I realized later was the last picture I took of him alive, and I regret it's blurry, but he was always a fast-moving little creature. He had under two weeks left here.
The extremely suspect and flimsy-looking egg-holder that came with the new dye kit. It doesn't look as reliable as the classic wire frame holder but when you actually try out using it? It's quite bad. Ugh.
One of the new dye kits, with what seems to have been the same technology use for 60s Tie-Dye Egg kits, but with a way more hilarious CGI-styled bunny in place.
Bit of a more traditional rabbit look on the wrappers here. We'd make a lot of use of these.
More traditional egg dying stuff, part of the cache that's built up over the years.
Trivia: After buying NCR in 1991, AT&T attempted to change the meaning of the initials from ``National Cash Register'' to ``Networked Computing Resources''. AT&T sold off NCR in 1996. Source: A History of Modern Computing, Paul E Ceruzzi.
Currently Reading: Miscellaneous comic books. By the way, Archie foiling a band of CB robbers? Every bit as wonderful as you imagined.
