Submitted by Granny Squares
Easter was always a special event when my kids were little. First of all we would spend all day dying the hardboiled eggs and decorating them. I well remember that chrome kitchen table covered with newspapers and kids sitting on their knees in the chair carefully drawing on their eggs and then choosing the colours they wanted their egg to be. I would make up pint mason jars with all different colours by putting about a cup of lukewarm water in each, 2 tablespoons of vinegar, and about a teaspoon of food colouring.
Of course you could make the colours lighter or darker if you wanted by regulating the amount of food colouring you put in each jar. We only had red, green, blue and yellow food colouring, so if you wanted other colours you had to mix them together. Red and yellow makes orange, blue and red makes purple, blue and green makes turquoise.
I know that not every family agrees with this, but the animals in our house have always been allowed on our furniture. I also know that there is supposed to be non-shedding types of pets, but we have never managed to be owned by one.
We try to have a ladies’ night every couple of weeks in our neighbourhood where we share ideas and get in a visit with one another to catch up on our lives. We alternate whose house it’s going to be at so that all we take get a turn. Last Thursday we were at Shirley’s house and she was serving Chardonnay and cheese.
