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Saturday (or maybe it was Friday) it was windy outside, so we got out the kite Anya received from the Easter Bunny. Ok, it's almost always windy here, but it was windier than normal. Anya thought it was the greatest thing in the world, especially once we finally got it to stay aloft for more than 15 seconds. She stood in the driveway holding on to the string with both hands, because she wanted to do it all by herself. Then she let go.

It ended its life with the string stuck to the telephone/power lines, and the kite flapping madly until it was consumed by a kite-eating tree in the woods on the other side.

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I'm at home today, and every now and then I take a break from job-work to do a little house-work. One of the first things I did was grab an empty Easter basket and wander around the house in search of discarded plastic eggs. It was a bit surreal seeing the brightly-colored eggs split in half and lying empty on the floor, couch, counter, desk, table, toy shelf. The Easter Bunny hid nearly 60 eggs around the house, or so he told us, and I have no reason to doubt him. It took Anya a while to figure out what was going on, but once she did she was running around hollering for "CANDY!" When she found an egg, she'd squeal and do a little dance.

Saturday we went to the local nursing home for an egg hunt, where Anya found five or six eggs. It was hard to find eggs with all those other kids racing for them, but she had fun. It was a little weird because I felt a bit like we were on exhibition for the residents, which we were. I hope they enjoyed seeing the kids running around for a little while. I felt like we should stay a bit and read to some of the folks or something.

This weekend we bought two plum trees, which I hope we'll plant tonight. I also got two rows done in the berry bed and planted the blueberries and one type of raspberries. I dug another row out this morning and plan to make it cozy this evening and get more raspberries planted. This is going to take a while. I also planted some onions and a few flowers to make the berry bed look a bit happier while the berries are still pretty much sticks. While I gardened and Andy painted more, more, more trim, Anya ran around and did Anya things. Like put a bunch of rocks to bed in a bucket of water. They were safe there from the monsters, and we were not to disturb them. I tried to teach her how to pee outside, but she wasn't going for that, which sucks because the potty is a long way from pretty much everything.

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