Bad Manners and Brimstone

My Family Easter Tradition usually occurred sometime in July.  That's when we would finally be able to sniff out the last hidden Easter Egg!

LOL!  Reminds of the year that my dad was mowing in the heat of summer and hit a lost Easter egg with the mower. That was when the "Easter Bunny" would hide the hard-boiled eggs that we had colored and left out for him. Dad was not happy.

In our little town, the cemetery was nestled against the side of a large, steep hill we called the ‘High Tor’.  Half way up the hill was a small amphitheater that overlooked the Hudson River to the east.  It saw the occasional Wedding or memorial service and was an easy hike on a Saturday afternoon.

Our church had too many people to use it for an Easter sunrise service but an AME church in town made good use of it every Easter.  They also staged a pancake breakfast on Easter morning that just about everybody who celebrated Easter attended at one time or another.   

My church has a nice big lawn with a huge cross, and that's where we'd set up chairs for Sunrise Service on Easter.  I loved it.  As an extreme early bird, I liked to go to that service, because 'for one day a year, church is on MY schedule!'.  (insert polite laughs here).

This is Fleet Week in NYC.  There will be a parade of Navy ships up the Hudson this morning.  For the week ships will be open for visiting and there will be memorial services on the Intrepid.