The Egg and I

    There was still a slight coolness in the
air when we got up yesterday morning.
     We gathered two grand kids. One boy
and one girl and headed up the mountain
to Bear Creek Township.
     There, at the Township's recreational
fields, we joined what seemed like ten
thousand other children and their parents
just outside the fence around a combination
baseball/soccer complex.
     As we waited the loud sound of a fire
truck siren echoed through the air, getting
ever closer.
      Perhaps we didn't have a permit for
this assembly? Or, maybe, another one
of those troublesome brush fires had sprung
up in the woods just beyond our gathering!
      Nope. None of the above.
      It was the Easter Bunny who, it seems,
now makes his annual arrival via Fire Engine!
      In the field just beyond where we stood
he had placed hundreds of colorful Easter
Eggs just ripe for the picking.
      And that, of course, is what the kids did
the minute they head a voice on the loud
speaker yell      "GO!"
      Suddenly those ten thousand kids, OK
so maybe it was only a couple hundred,
ran towards the field. Fortunately, I stood
off to the side at the time. It would have
been a terrible way to go....trampled to
death by the infant to 3-year-old crowd!
     The scene was then repeated for the next
age category of kids.
      All those kids, whatever the final count,
came away with candy. Some lucky ones
also gathered eggs with a Prize alert inside!
      There was something for all the children
including enough candy and sugar to keep
them active through the entire weekend.
      A lot of sponsors and volunteers worked
hard to make the day a success. And it was!
They all deserve our thanks.
       One again, I must have missed the call
for the 70-year-old plus age category.
       I wonder if those two grand kids took
the time to count their candy?? Hummmm!
       I hope not.....and that all your NEWS
is good!