Easter’s on it’s way…

By RALPH HARDIN

Evening Times Editor

It’s almost Easter. This year, has got to be the latest Easter I can remember. I don’t know what the latest day Easter can be on but this has to be close. I know there’s a formula and it gets pretty complicated… something like the first Sunday after the first full moon after the first day of spring or something like that. I’m reciting from memory so there might be another step or I might have something wonky in there somewhere Anyway, I hope you have something nice planned for Easter Sunday, which is April 20th, in case you didn’t know. I’m actually pretty cool with a late Easter as it gives you a better chance of coming up on the warm end of the hot-cold-hot-cold pattern we get around here in the springtime.

The extended forecast looks nice enough, and rain or shine, I know my church will have some great music and a great mes-

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sage lined up. Then, I’m sure we’ll be planning to go out to Memaw and Pawpaw’s for an Easter get-together, so I’m sure that will be nice too.

I’m particularly “eggcited” about one thing…

We’ve got ourselves a new Easter egg hunter!. Yes, I know very little about Easter Sunday has to do with eggs (unless you want to count that sermon illustration where an egg is sort of like Holy Trinity — God is the shell, Jesus is the yolk and the Holy Spirit is the egg white) but hunting Easter eggs has been a tradition for generations, and one we’ve sadly missed out on the past few years. I blame my children. They went and grew up on me.

But luckily, I have this grandkid now. Technically, he was around last year but he wasn’t quite mobile enough for egg hunting. That is not the case this year, I can assure you.

Hopefully before too long we’ll have a whole new generation of egg hunters prowling the old homestead!

I did see a funny thing this year though. With the high price of eggs nowadays, someone said, “This year, we’re dyeing potatoes instead.”