National Iced Tea Month.
Links to iced tea recipes.
The North-South Divide Still Influences Iced Tea.
History of Iced Tea.

1879 – The oldest sweet tea recipe (ice tea) in print comes from a community cookbook called Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree, published in 1879:

Ice Tea. – After scalding the teapot, put into it one quart of boiling water and two teaspoonfuls green tea. If wanted for supper, do this at breakfast. At dinner time, strain, without stirring, through a tea strainer into a pitcher. Let it stand till tea time and pour into decanters, leaving the sediment in the bottom of the pitcher. Fill the goblets with ice, put two teaspoonfuls granulated sugar in each, and pour the tea over the ice and sugar. A squeeze of lemon will make this delicious and healthful, as it will correct the astringent tendency.

Aquarium Month. Who has an aquarium? Why not post a picture of your aquarium on your blog this month? Leave a comment, and I’ll link back. I would love to have an aquarium full of fish, but I’ve killed all the fish I ever had. Poor fishies!

Dairy Month. I love cheese. I drink hot chocolate (milk) for breakfast every morning. That sounds like enough of a celebration for me.

Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month.
Favorite fruit: Strawberries.
Favorite vegetable: Potatoes?
Favorite green vegetable: Green beans.
What’s yours? Could we have a recipe round-up sometime this month? I’ll post a linky on Monday, June 11th, and everyone can link to their favorite fresh vegetable recipes.
Oh, I like onions, too.

National Rose Month. Semicolon celebrates roses and June. If you’re fond of roses, you should definitely visit my post for National Rose Month.

National Tennis Month.

The Beginning of Summer.

100 Things To Do When You’re Bored: Summer Edition.

Summer Snacks.

Summer Reading.

Here’s a great June calendar with events and links to educational resouces from At Home With the Kids.

Fifty ways to keep your kids reading all summer.

PS: I added a link to this post to Shannon’s Rocks in My Dryer Works-For-Me Wednesday “Mom, I’m Bored Edition.” Hop on over there for more boredom-ending ideas.

Dawn reminded me. With my older children, we spent several successive May Days delivering a basket of flowers and a poem to friends and neighbors. Unfortunately, these traditions tend to fall into the black hole of Tired, Old Mom-hood if I’m not careful. I haven’t been careful, and I’m not sure my younger four urchins remember delivering flowers for May Day.

So, tomorrow we’ll make a simple door hanger out of construction paper or a paper cup as Dawn suggests, and we’ll gather some wildflowers, tuck in a poem, and give a gift of May Day allergens floral offerings to some of our favorite people.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

This is a picture of our cross, made from the wood of our 2006 Christmas tree, decorated for Resurrection morning. May your day be filled with the celebration of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He is risen indeed!

Christ the Lord is ris’n today, Alleluia!
Sons of men and angels say! Alleluia!
Raise your joys and triumphs high: Alleluia!
Sing ye heavens, thou earth reply. Alleluia!

Love’s redeeming work is done; Alleluia!
Fought the fight, the battle won: Alleluia!
Death in vain forbids him rise; Alleluia!
Christ hath opened paradise. Alleluia!

Lives again our glorious King! Alleluia!
Where, O Death is now thy sting? Alleluia!
Once he died our souls to save; Alleluia!
Where thy victory, O grave Alleluia!

Soar we now where Christ has led, Alleluia!
Following our exalted Head, Alleluia!
Made like him, like him we rise, Alleluia!
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies. Alleluia!

Matthew 26:47-68 Jesus is betrayed, arrested, and forsaken.

Matthew 27 Jesus’ trial and crucifixion.

Luke 22:54-23:56 Jesus’ trial and crucifixion.

John 18:12-19:42 Jesus’ trial and crucifixion.

Mark 14:43-15:47 Jesus’ trial and crucifixion.

In Jerusalem: A Day of Preparation

Luke 22:7-30 Jesus’s disciples prepare the Passover meal.

John 13:1-30 Jesus celebrates the Passover with his disciples.

John 14-16 Jesus’ farewell discourse to his disciples in the uper room and the way to Gethsemane.

John 17 Jesus prays, possibly near the garden of Gethsemane.

Matthew 26:36-46 Jesus prays in the garden of Gethsemane.

At Bethany: A Day of Rest (the events in these passages probably happened on Tuesday evening, which somewhat confusingly to us nowadays, is the beginning of the Jewish Wednesday. The Bible is silent as to what Jesus did on Wednesday, but it is assumed that he probably rested in Bethany in the home of his friends Mary, Martha, and Lazarus.)

Matthew 26:1-5 Jesus predicts his crucifixion.

Mark 14:3-9 Mary of Bethany annoints Jesus for his burial.

Matthew 26:14-16 Judas plans to betray Jesus.

I found this book cover among the vintage children’s book illustrations that I blogged about earlier this week.

What about Easter eggs?

Do you have an Easter egg hunt at your house? What do you tell your urchins about Easter eggs? Who hides the eggs? What do you put inside? Or do they come already basketed to your front door? What do Easter eggs have to do with the celebration of Easter? Have you ever had an egg tree? What else do any of my readers have to suggest about Easter eggs?

Here’s a post on what we usually do with Easter eggs in Semicolon-land.