Easter Panies

The Easter Egg Roll at the White House took place.  Not being American I had no idea how complicated it is.  The news about it is that the Trump administration staff have no experience and are behind schedule.  About 35,000 people took part in the event during Barack Obama's time.  It has a tradition of being considered a big event.  Tickets are awarded to lottery winners in February so they can travel from out-of-town. However this year the lottery didn't happen till March, and people were notified at the end of March. All sorts of people get invitations that are behind schedule.  The company that manufactures the eggs had to remind the president to submit an order - on Twitter.  And then the organizer is supposed to be the First Lady, but Melania Trump lives in New York and hasn't appointed her full team yet. The only staffer with experience turns out to be Sean Spicer.  He portrayed the Easter Bunny in 2008. The story in the Guardian is full of puns - bedevilled, poached, fall foul, scrambling, poorly laid, being fried, crack under pressure. One has to be impressed with all the ways to cook eggs.  Today they are associated with breakfast.  The Lumberjack breakfast sounds like the most interesting of all the breakfast stories.   "While it has been a source of controversy where the lumberjack breakfast came from, the most cited source is that the lumberjack breakfast was first served in a Vancouver Hotel, in 1870. The breakfast consisted of eggs galore, assorted fried pork strips, slabs, slices, and flapjacks. It is said by Anita Stewart that the tradition of hearty cooking developed because of men needing the energy for manual labor." We look at abstracts of Pansy flowers, using extension tubes so one can get very close and follow the flow of the lines of these tiny petals.

Easter is Chocolate and Eggs

Marilyn's Photo of the Week

Easter Day - Chocolate and Eggs Today is a celebration of chocolate.  I turn to the Guinness World records: The largest chocolate Easter egg 34 ft in height made by Tosca in Italy in 2011.  It weighed 7,200 kg. and had a circumference of 64 ft. The largest chocolate rabbit weighed 3,850 kg (8,488 lb) and was made by Brazilian company Senac-RS, for the city of Gramado's annual "Chocofest" in April 2014. The most expensive chocolate egg (non-jewelled) sold at auction for £7,000 ($11,107) and was created by William Curley, Amy Rose Curley, Alistair Birt, Sarah Frankland, Melissa Paul, Rhiann Mead (all UK) and Suzue Curley (Japan).  The largest Easter egg hunt consisted of 501,000 eggs that were searched for by 9,753 children accompanied by their parents at the Cypress Gardens Adventure Park in Winter Haven, Florida, USA, in 2007. Similarly, the most entrants in an egg hunt competition is a whopping 12,773 and was achieved by The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt, as part of World Record London, in London, last year.  This in from Deb Osborne: Q What happens when you pour hot water in a rabbit hole? A  Hot cross bunnies Have a good Easter Day.