Every year up until I was 13 or so we'd color a whole mess of Easter eggs. Every year, my mom would hide them, and every year, one or two wouldn't be found until well after Easter. Eggs hidden in coat pockets wouldn't turn up until it got cold enough to wear the coats (and this being North Carolina, that meant January), some would turn up in May when we got the summer gear out, etc. When my mom moved into her current house, we were packing up some kitchen things and turned up an egg behind the big exhaust fan. I was eighteen at the time. It gets worse: I recognized the design of the egg as one from the year before the last year we'd done Easter. The egg had been hidden for seven years.
Oh yeah... My Dad used to insist on hiding the eggs. Unfortunately, he usually had a couple beers in him by the end of the hunt, and could not remember whether we'd got them all, or, if any were missing, where he'd hidden them.
They often turned up in the lawn mower around the middle of July.
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Date: 2002-07-23 10:25 am (UTC)Thank you, Easter Bunny.
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Date: 2002-07-23 10:30 am (UTC)Buck, buck!
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Date: 2002-07-23 11:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-07-23 12:53 pm (UTC)Oh yeah... My Dad used to insist on hiding the eggs. Unfortunately, he usually had a couple beers in him by the end of the hunt, and could not remember whether we'd got them all, or, if any were missing, where he'd hidden them.
They often turned up in the lawn mower around the middle of July.
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Date: 2002-07-23 07:10 pm (UTC)i am arrived west. a bit of the tales available at my LJ there :)
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Date: 2002-07-23 07:18 pm (UTC)Yay!
Will read you tomorrow. I have to go upstairs shortly and do things with paint.
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Date: 2002-07-24 01:45 am (UTC)there's no better thing to do !