When we got up this morning Stacy and I spent some time recalling some Easter memories.
When I was a kid, a LONG time ago now, I remember that back then Easter was a mini Christmas for my family. We got baskets with candy and had egg hunts. But we also usually got a toy or two with all the Easter goodies.
One stand out memory was the Easter my mom had made large rabbit tracks out of a pattern and talcum powder around the wood floor to try to convince my brother and sister that the actual Easter Bunny had been to the house. I don't recall how old I was but I do recall that I was beyond Easter Bunny belief. But mom had gotten up very early and had taken a lot of effort to pull the rabbit over the other kids that it still stands out to me. The tracks went from place to place and had a basket or prize at each spot. I think as with many "family" holidays as I grew up my mom made them more for her than anyone else. I guess now it was to have something she never could.
Stacy said she remembers Easter Baskets, candy and Easter Egg hunts. She had a rather large family so it was a big day.
With our kids I have video of an egg coloring session when they were all very young. Quite funny to watch as it was at the time too. We didn't have anywhere near the dozens of cooked eggs the kids wished we had so Stacy gave in and let them color raw eggs to make everybody happy. It was candy, baskets, and egg hunts too. And then Stacy always cooked a great Easter dinner. I remember one year, maybe the one I mentioned, that a few of the eggs went missing in hunt to turn up later very smelly!
After we moved to the Phelan area there wasn't too many places to have egg hunts in the desert. So Stacy got really creative and switched the egg hunts to candy eggs and would hide a small bunch around in the house, on shelves and behind things. Candy eggs were smaller and much easier to hide. And if the candy eggs went Missing In the Hunt at least they'd never smell.
Now with all three kids married and on their own they have to come up with their own Easter traditions. Sandy was telling me about the high cost of Hams in Irvine this year. I guess no big sales in California with all the money problems the state's having and high fuel costs.
She did a 10 mile run and spent the afternoon cooking the ham and studying, according to her status update. Sandy is the one most trying to keep the popular traditions going.
Laura called while she was on her way to her local Wal-Mart, then later sent MMS photos of the slice she got on her arm when she got cut by accident. And Sean is still not feeling to great from having a piece of thick wire he was installing as a hinge pin in a cowling that got loose and whipped him in the eye on Friday, cutting his eyelid and giving him a very black eye according to talking to him and seeing the sent by phone MMS text messages.
As for me and Stacy as it was the first day of over 60 degree temps of 2011 we took the opportunity to open up the house a bit. Hooked up a hose reel again and finally washed the winter off some of the vehicles and just enjoyed being outside for a while. It was very nice.
I also figured it finally won't be snowing enough to need it and we took off the snowplow and tire chains from the Polaris quad. It is supposed to rain tomorrow and be colder than normal and stormy the rest of the week. I hope it's not like washing a car to have it rain, will taking the plow off make it snow heavy again?
Hope not but we've had snow on Memorial Day before!
Till next time.
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When I was a kid, a LONG time ago now, I remember that back then Easter was a mini Christmas for my family. We got baskets with candy and had egg hunts. But we also usually got a toy or two with all the Easter goodies.
One stand out memory was the Easter my mom had made large rabbit tracks out of a pattern and talcum powder around the wood floor to try to convince my brother and sister that the actual Easter Bunny had been to the house. I don't recall how old I was but I do recall that I was beyond Easter Bunny belief. But mom had gotten up very early and had taken a lot of effort to pull the rabbit over the other kids that it still stands out to me. The tracks went from place to place and had a basket or prize at each spot. I think as with many "family" holidays as I grew up my mom made them more for her than anyone else. I guess now it was to have something she never could.
Stacy said she remembers Easter Baskets, candy and Easter Egg hunts. She had a rather large family so it was a big day.
With our kids I have video of an egg coloring session when they were all very young. Quite funny to watch as it was at the time too. We didn't have anywhere near the dozens of cooked eggs the kids wished we had so Stacy gave in and let them color raw eggs to make everybody happy. It was candy, baskets, and egg hunts too. And then Stacy always cooked a great Easter dinner. I remember one year, maybe the one I mentioned, that a few of the eggs went missing in hunt to turn up later very smelly!
After we moved to the Phelan area there wasn't too many places to have egg hunts in the desert. So Stacy got really creative and switched the egg hunts to candy eggs and would hide a small bunch around in the house, on shelves and behind things. Candy eggs were smaller and much easier to hide. And if the candy eggs went Missing In the Hunt at least they'd never smell.
Now with all three kids married and on their own they have to come up with their own Easter traditions. Sandy was telling me about the high cost of Hams in Irvine this year. I guess no big sales in California with all the money problems the state's having and high fuel costs.
She did a 10 mile run and spent the afternoon cooking the ham and studying, according to her status update. Sandy is the one most trying to keep the popular traditions going.
Laura called while she was on her way to her local Wal-Mart, then later sent MMS photos of the slice she got on her arm when she got cut by accident. And Sean is still not feeling to great from having a piece of thick wire he was installing as a hinge pin in a cowling that got loose and whipped him in the eye on Friday, cutting his eyelid and giving him a very black eye according to talking to him and seeing the sent by phone MMS text messages.
As for me and Stacy as it was the first day of over 60 degree temps of 2011 we took the opportunity to open up the house a bit. Hooked up a hose reel again and finally washed the winter off some of the vehicles and just enjoyed being outside for a while. It was very nice.
I also figured it finally won't be snowing enough to need it and we took off the snowplow and tire chains from the Polaris quad. It is supposed to rain tomorrow and be colder than normal and stormy the rest of the week. I hope it's not like washing a car to have it rain, will taking the plow off make it snow heavy again?
Hope not but we've had snow on Memorial Day before!
Till next time.
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad2
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