Happy Easter!

Maybe the Easter Bunny can make his way through all the yellow haze to find the homes of all good boys and girls in Jasper County.

The stores are full of traditional Easter basket candy, chocolate bunnies, eggs and a very popular item is hard to find, egg-shaped bubble gum. Maybe you have a few funny stories about things that happened to you on Easter.

As children, we always wondered how the Easter bunny got into our house to leave the goodies in our Easter basket.

We didn’t have a chimney, so that was not an option. Anyway the Easter Bunny is supposed to have white fur and sliding down a chimney would have been a real mess for him. Growing up, my mother had the best idea. She would load up our Easter baskets and put them on the hood of the car.

This new location came the year after she had another good idea. She decided it would be good for us to wake up and find a trail of small, foiled-wrapped Easter eggs ending right where our baskets were located. Good idea? It would have worked except our dog ate all the little eggs.

Needless to say, the dog had to stay outside a lot the next day. The next year our baskets started showing up on the hood of the car.

Another one of those family stories is the year it was raining so hard outside that our parents let us hide eggs in the house.

I don’t remember who was hiding the eggs, but one of the eggs was not found until a few days later. Someone, to remain nameless, hid an egg in my father’s shoe in the closet. Back then the eggs we hid were the boiled, REAL eggs.

Some days later my mother searched for the smell that was coming from the closet. She found the rotten egg and that was the last indoor Easter egg hunt we ever had.

This year’s weather report is warm with a chance of showers. Beware of the indoor Easter egg hunt!