Easter Egg Hunt

[leechlake]

kids are 15 and 17 but wife still hides eggs for them.  Kind of funny to see them act like they are 5 again.  Classic line from 17 year old son to his lefty 15 year old sister.

She had more eggs in her basket and he stole a couple and she yelled at him and he said, "Welcome to Socialism...feel the Bern."  Everybody laughed...Happy Easter to all.

[leech~~]

27 minutes ago, leechlake said:

kids are 15 and 17 but wife still hides eggs for them.  Kind of funny to see them act like they are 5 again.  Classic line from 17 year old son to his lefty 15 year old sister.

She had more eggs in her basket and he stole a couple and she yelled at him and he said, "Welcome to Socialism...feel the Bern."  Everybody laughed...Happy Easter to all.

To bad he didn't come back with "Then you wouldn't mind giving me half of yours then since I am not very good at finding my own eggs" Feel the Trump!

[Boar]

just remeber if someone gets hurt on a easter egg hunt, there gonna try and take away all our eggs, and have a mass egg control isssue on our hands.

[RebelSS]

And then you can have fun with the leftover peeps. 

 

[lovebigbluegills]

[RebelSS]

Or, you can have fun eating Easter sheep, if yer into that....

[lovebigbluegills]

Or bunnies!!!!

 

[RebelSS]

Looks like the HSO crew......

[Boar]

i dontsee an easter boar

[reinhard1]

We had the hunt inside the house this year at our house and outside the daughters house when we brought the crew back on Sunday.  Plastic eggs all around the house and each had their own basket to find with their specific favorite color of course.  They are spoiled.  Including our other family member, Lucy, our chocolate Lab.  good luck.

 

 

Learning the ropes of coloring eggs.

 

 

Even the youngest get into the action.

 

 

Today some of these eggs are going into egg salad.

 

 

And yes, even Lucy got her own basket.

[Boar]

im gona be smokin some eggs

[leechlake]

when I was a kid we blew the egg stuff out of the eggs before coloring.  Mom would poke a couple holes and us kids would have to blow the egg white and yolk out the other end.  No wonder I'm nuts now!   If I did one right now I'd pass out but we did what we were told sitting at the kitchen table blowing egg snot into bowls.  

Edited March 28, 2016 by leechlake

[Moon Lake Refuge]

Kids were looking for eggs outside at Gmas this weekend and stumbled on a dead cat in the bush... Coyotes gotta have Easter dinner too I guess...

[leech~~]

3 minutes ago, leechlake said:

when I was a kid we blew the egg stuff out of the eggs before coloring.  Mom would poke a couple holes and us kids would have to blow the egg white and yolk out the other end.  No wonder I'm nuts now!   If I did one right now I'd pass out but we did what we were told sitting at the kitchen table blowing egg snot into bowls.

Why? Just hard boil them and eat them later?

[leechlake]

11 minutes ago, leech~~ said:

Why? Just hard boil them and eat them later?

she died 7-8 years ago otherwise I'd give her a jingle and see why we did it that way?  Is this Leech or Del?

It was 40 years ago and even Edina didn't have internet then.  Maybe she started the egg poking craze and it took 40 years to get to Sauk Rapids?

Edited March 28, 2016 by leechlake

[Dotch]

We poked eggs for some that were kept for decoration some 50 years ago. They could then be hung on a piece of fishing line or other string for those kitschy Easter egg trees.

We used to have chickens that laid brown eggs. They didn't take the color as good so Mom would usually buy a dozen or two white eggs.The dye used to be dissolved in vinegar and smelled pretty good so we'd end up drinking some of it. Sorta like beet pickles. Probably explains a lot of why we turned out like we did.   

[leech~~]

7 minutes ago, leechlake said:

she died 7-8 years ago otherwise I'd give her a jingle and see why we did it that way?  Is this Leech or Del?

It was 40 years ago and even Edina didn't have internet then.  Maybe she started the egg poking craze and it took 40 years to get to Sauk Rapids?

I know if you want to keep the painted eggs for years then blowing them out is best. We were to poor so mom made egg sal with them after a few days.

Edited March 28, 2016 by leech~~

[leechlake]

women have a lot of good ideas.  This weekend Deb said she saw something where you take old ties and wrap them around eggs and add vinegar and the tie pattern transfers onto the egg.  Maybe next year I can sit in front the dog meditations channel and cut up the zillion ties I have that I never wear and really jazz things up for our then 18 and 16 year old kids.  

[RebelSS]

32 minutes ago, Dotch said:

We poked eggs for some that were kept for decoration some 50 years ago. They could then be hung on a piece of fishing line or other string for those kitschy Easter egg trees.

We used to have chickens that laid brown eggs. They didn't take the color as good so Mom would usually buy a dozen or two white eggs.The dye used to be dissolved in vinegar and smelled pretty good so we'd end up drinking some of it. Sorta like beet pickles. Probably explains a lot of why we turned out like we did.   

Did you know beet juice dyes eggs wonderfully? 

[Coffee118]

They have to be made out of silk for the pattern to transfer, ties, hankys, scarfs ect.

[Dotch]

10 minutes ago, RebelSS said:

Did you know beet juice dyes eggs wonderfully? 

I know it works on turds so am assuming it would work on eggs. 

[RebelSS]

Good lord, I'm NOT going there.    Maybe someone out there is doing the Czech egg decorating, like all us good (or bad czechs) should do. I love those.

[leech~~]

1 hour ago, RebelSS said:

Good lord, I'm NOT going there.    Maybe someone out there is doing the Czech egg decorating, like all us good (or bad czechs) should do. I love those.

I Czech too, but don't have the skills to boil an egg let alone make something like those! Are you may be thinking of the Ukrainian designed eggs?

[Boar]

lmao! cant boil and egg!!!! i finnaly made spagetti, but u cant boil and egg!!

[RebelSS]

27 minutes ago, leech~~ said:

I Czech too, but don't have the skills to boil an egg let alone make something like those! Are you may be thinking of the Ukrainian designed eggs?

Nope. CZECH. The real deal.   Dobr'y den!

http://www.myczechrepublic.com/czech-souvenirs/czech-easter-eggs.html