That's the thrill of living in the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of fiends and devils and ghouls to engage ... Pardon me for finding the glass half-full.

Giles ,'Same Time, Same Place'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Mar 29, 2023 9:15:51 am PDT #21399 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Somebody better map the egg placement, or you're going to invite a pack of raccoons into the neighborhood with free protein.

I'm gonna say right now: 300 eggs is too many. That's 25 eggs per kid. That's insane.

Yeah, but the brothers are on board with it, so this is just another Middle Brother Outlandishly And Needlessly Oversized Harebrained Scheme. Easter is at Middle Brother's house, so if he wants 300 eggs for 12 kids, that's what's going to happen.

They're going to get bored and quit, and nobody is going to eat that many eggs even if they're deviled.

They're plastic eggs that'll have candy or other stuff (temporary tattoos! tiny plastic cephalopods!), so deviling those would be quite the feat.

I'm really not annoyed by Operation How Many Eggs Did You Say?!?!?!, because it's not my circus. If SiL is on board with it (and she seems to be; or at the very least she's tolerating it), it's their yard, so I have zero emotional investment in it.

I will, however, be documenting the chaos on Instagram or Facebook.


Toddson - Mar 29, 2023 9:26:08 am PDT #21400 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Also keep track of when the various un-found eggs are found. I bet you'll be finding some NEXT Easter.


Steph L. - Mar 29, 2023 9:30:55 am PDT #21401 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Also keep track of when the various un-found eggs are found. I bet you'll be finding some NEXT Easter.

Not my circus. That's entirely Middle Brother's folly to deal with.


-t - Mar 29, 2023 10:35:50 am PDT #21402 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Now I'm curious what percentage of their yard will be eggs when they are all hidden. I think it would just be rows of eggs every few inches if I tried to hide that many in my yard, but I have not hidden easter eggs in decades, perhaps my sense of proportion is off by a lot. But if I had 300 little flags like the utility company puts out to mark underground lines in my yard, I would think my yard was full of flags. Or, say, dandelions.


Steph L. - Mar 29, 2023 10:37:35 am PDT #21403 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

I will definitely document the hilarity and pitfalls of this harebrained scheme, for sure.


-t - Mar 29, 2023 10:42:02 am PDT #21404 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Sweet


-t - Mar 29, 2023 10:42:38 am PDT #21405 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Also, harebrained, I see what you did there. Took me a minute, but I did catch on


Steph L. - Mar 29, 2023 11:17:12 am PDT #21406 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Also, harebrained, I see what you did there. Took me a minute, but I did catch on

Ha! That was 100% unintentional. Tim always refers to his almost-certainly-not-life-threatening ideas as harebrained schemes, so it's the local lingo.


Dana - Mar 29, 2023 11:19:30 am PDT #21407 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I feel like Middle Brother should create an elaborate egg map.


Steph L. - Mar 29, 2023 11:29:51 am PDT #21408 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

I feel like Middle Brother should create an elaborate egg map.

That does feel like something he would do. If there's a map, I will definitely take a picture of it.