Easter, chickens, and money transfers

Some pictures...
An Easter 'kozunak'...a HUGE one! This is a typical Bulgarian sweet cake, which is eaten by the tons around Easter!



These are some lovely colored Easter eggs...an international tradition which is fun for kids and big kids alike :)

Below are three lovely ladies whose fates have interwoven in an interesting way...in the middle is my friend Sunai from Krichim, the blond lady next to her is Mariana, assistant director of one of the schools in Momchilgrad, and Sunai's friend from high school days...thanks to the Peace Corps and to the fact that they placed me in Momchilgrad, they reconnected after more than 20 years! I'm grateful to know both of these strong women and to be part of their lives in some small way!

Down below are the chickens of Momchilgrad, waiting for their money transfer from Western Union! "Hey we're all workin' for a livin' here...give us a break! We gotta get some reimbursement for all those eggs we send abroad to be dyed and all that!"

These are two happy Momchilgrad grandmas tending the park garden...

I don't know if anybody checks in to this blog anymore, it's gettin' a little bit rusty, but i'll write anyway just for 'kef' (the Bulgarian word for 'fun', in case ya didn't know :)! The problem is...if i have some time to write and there's not a whole lot going on, there's nothing to share on the blog, and when there's a whole lot going on, well then there's no time to share and so i put it off and put it off and now it's been so put off that i just don't know where to start...it's all like a Purple Haze of activity mixed with moments of calm, spiced with djodjan (a spice that's used to make patatnik, which is like a banitza {which is a fillo dough dish made with feta cheese and yogurt and eggs and it's eaten for breakfast a lot here and thanks to it, my horizons are expanding...the horizons of my bottom, that is} with potatoes). For anyone who followed this curvy train of thought, my mind is on a food wavelength since we have been cooking dishes that are traditional for the Rhodope mountains in Bulgaria (which are my home at the moment) and we are making a book of recipes with pictures and it's all very exciting!! I may just learn how to cook and that may be dangerous, as much as i love to eat!!


If you're reading this, write a comment!! Let me know if there are still readers out there!!