Spring is Here & Easter is Coming!

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It's very quiet here today, not that anything exciting tends to happen. The overnight storm (storm Dave) has abated and there appears to have been no real damage. There was some snow yesterday, but it didn't last and It's still very cold so not exactly spring weather. I've put on some clean work wear and I just might do a bit more indoors DIY.

Easter Sunday dinner used to be lamb, but in recent years we've had goose to celebrate spring. I'd really like a nice Aberdeen Angus rib roast, but I'd have to mortgage the house to buy one.

Supermarkets and larger stores are open as normal today in Scotland.
 
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Capt Lightning said:
It's very quiet here today, not that anything exciting tends to happen. The overnight storm (storm Dave) has abated and there appears to have been no real damage. There was some snow yesterday, but it didn't last and It's still very cold so not exactly spring weather. I've put on some clean work wear and I just might do a bit more indoors DIY.

Easter Sunday dinner used to be lamb, but in recent years we've had goose to celebrate spring. I'd really like a nice Aberdeen Angus rib roast, but I'd have to mortgage the house to buy one.

Supermarkets and larger stores are open as normal today in Scotland.
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The grocers are open normal hours here in Central New York too.

Makes me think back to when I was a kid and almost everything was closed on Sunday due to the Blue Laws*.

The Blue Laws were repealed in this area in 1976.


*Blue laws are state or local regulations that prohibit or restrict certain commercial, retail, and entertainment activities on Sundays or religious holidays
. Originally designed to enforce religious observance (specifically the Christian Sabbath) and promote a day of rest, they often restrict alcohol sales, car dealership operations, and hunting.
 
Aunt Bea said:
The grocers are open normal hours here in Central New York too.

Makes me think back to when I was a kid and almost everything was closed on Sunday due to the Blue Laws*.

The Blue Laws were repealed in this area in 1976.


*Blue laws are state or local regulations that prohibit or restrict certain commercial, retail, and entertainment activities on Sundays or religious holidays
. Originally designed to enforce religious observance (specifically the Christian Sabbath) and promote a day of rest, they often restrict alcohol sales, car dealership operations, and hunting.
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Scotland never had Sunday trading laws as such, but for many years shops would have closed on Sundays in deference to the Presbyterian church. Now Sunday is just another day.
 
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Happy Spring/Easter!!! Here on the farm...

The Missouri woods are waking now,

With white-bud dogwoods on the bough.

The onion sprouts their "green shoes" wear,

To pace the warming April air.

And Easter comes—the stone rolled wide,

Where Life and Light no longer hide.

A symbol set in Spring’s first breath,

Of rising from the winter’s death.

The Sun has crossed the Equator’s line,

To make the Northern Kingdom shine.

For half a year, the "White" shall stay,

In one long, golden, six-month day.

The shadows flee, the tilt is right,

We’ve entered now the time of light.

Until the wheel turns round once more,

And brings the Dark to Autumn's door.

But here in April, hope is tall,

The Light has come to claim it all.
 
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