On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:58:57 -0600, jmcquown wrote:

> Now, we're up to Easter. April. Probably. You never know. No one really
> knows when Easter is. Okay. Boil some eggs. You don't want soft boiled
> eggs, which OB food: are delicious for breakfast with a little butter, salt
> & pepper. Serve with buttered wheat toast to sop up the egg yolk.
>
> But no, for this you want hard boiled eggs. Dip them in weird dye stuff to
> change the colour of the shells. (Be sure to criticize people who do the
> same thing to their hair. Blue?! Purple?!) If you want to get really cool
> with this, attach funny stickers or sprinkle them with glue and glitter
> sparkles.
>
Egg dying is the "funnest" part. When my kids were small, we started
dying eggs weeks in advance. Every time I bought a dozen eggs, we'd
dye them. Yes, we dyed raw eggs and had colorful eggs in the
refrigerator for a few weeks before Easter.
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