The grandkids are out of town this weekend so the wife and I really didn't have any particular Easter plans this year.?ÿ We just decided to lay back and enjoy a quiet Sunday.
But I'm a fidgety kind of guy.?ÿ By the middle of morning I was bored and needed to mess with something.?ÿ I decided to treat my yard with flea and tick stuff.?ÿ It's a monthly thing and today seemed perfect.?ÿ But the grass was a little higher than I wanted so I broke out the mower before I dusted the yard.
As I was mowing I looked in front of the mower and saw something in the grass.?ÿ It was a plastic Easter egg.?ÿ I stopped and looked around.?ÿ Nobody hunting eggs, nobody at all was anywhere around as a matter of fact.?ÿ I wondered if someone was trying to prank me.?ÿ But who?
I stuffed the egg in my back pocket and was just fixin' to yank on the mower when I heard something hit the grass behind me.?ÿ I turned to look and, lo and behold, another plastic egg.?ÿ Right about that time I was sure I heard a wee person's giggle.?ÿ With what peripheral eyesight I have left I was pretty sure I could see a child peering through a crack in the 5' wooden fence to the north.?ÿ One of the neighbor's kids was messing with me.
I stopped and looked at the Easter egg.?ÿ It was colorful plastic and had a label that indicated it hadn't been opened.?ÿ I shook it and realized there was probably some sweet and chocolaty goody inside.
"My oh my" , I said to myself...just loud enough for my hidden observer to hear, "There's something inside this".?ÿ ?ÿI started unwrapping it and turned my back so the child couldn't see.
"Oh my God!?ÿ It's a twenty dollar bill!"?ÿ I said a little louder.?ÿ "How cool is that??ÿ I just found twenty bucks!"
Before I could say anything else a small voice came through the crack in the fence, "Hey mister, those eggs belong to me and my sister."?ÿ ?ÿI looked closer and could see the boy I was talking to with his little sister half hiding behind him.
"How did they get in my yard if they're yours?"
The boy told me they must have "fallen" over the fence...?ÿ As I looked at the fence with a smile on my face the little sister spilled the beans.?ÿ "He threw them over the fence.?ÿ My brother was fibbing."
I thanked her for being honest and dropped both of them back over the fence.?ÿ In a few seconds the boy said, "I thought you said there was money in them."?ÿ I told him I was fibbin' too.?ÿ And then I started the mower and continued on.
I can only imagine what he's got in store for me now.?ÿ Paden vs. the four year old next door....?ÿ ;)?ÿ
Excellent.
Kids can be fun, you know.?ÿ As long as they don't live at your house fulltime.
That was a very nice Easter story, Paden.?ÿ Not nearly as long or as hilarious as the one, though, that involves the Sunrise Service and the little uninvited guests making their appearance.
You better hope yer dead before he becomes a (god forbid) teenager. ?????ÿ
