Sunday, 20 April 2025: Christ has risen! Happy Easter

We started the day with Mimosas and a French croissant breakfast bake to go along with Sunday morning news shows.  Yes, I’ve joined Justin in this ritual.  It’s just a train wreck and I can’t look away.  Later in the day we enjoyed deviled eggs before our special dinner of Gigantes Plaki (Greek baked beans), Kleftiko (Greek Lamb Cooked in Parchment), and, for dessert, Carrot cheese cake.  What a feast!  And, since it was just the two of us, we will have leftovers. 

 

We’ve started projects around the house.  We took out the closet in the bedroom as we will install the shoji doors.  Since we are in the upstairs bedroom, we’ve been inspired to fine tune things up there.  We got shoji doors out from the basement that will now serve as the window treatment for the windows toward Gloria’s house.  

It seems as if we are going with all shoji- all the time.  We bought some shoji-like room dividers from Wayfair to serve as the window treatment in the living room.  I don’t mind going without drapes all together, but we’ve been too exposed on the street side for too long. 

Here’s a story: several years ago we bought the shoji doors from Wayfair.  We paid $700 or $800 and when they arrived they were damaged.  They offered to refund our money since they didn’t have another in the color we wanted.  And they didn’t have us return the damaged one.  Now, perhaps you know, I can replace shoji with the best of them.  Score!!  Now, several years later, the shoji room dividers we bought also arrived damaged.  I contacted the good folks at customer service ice at Wayfair who told me they’d send replacement parts.  I wondered what that would look like.  I didn’t have to wait long before an entire new 4-panel screen arrived.  If Wayfair keeps good records they might not let me order anything else.  We will see.