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Originally posted by Linwood:

[QB]My Grandson, Jake, with the Easter Bunny...

 

Linwood, you've traumtized the kid. How hell be afraid of the Easter Bunny.

 

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My kid's first Easter Bunny photo looks exactly like that. It's a big scary rabbit. Who could blame them? :)

 

We do Easter here. My kid's about to start looking for eggs that are hidden around the house and outside. One note: make sure your kids find all the eggs. Otherwise things start getting pretty smelly in early may.

 

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Somewhere, my parents have a picture of me when I was maybe 3 sitting on mall Santa Claus, looking terrified and bawling my eyes out.
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I was a mall Easter Bunny one year. Other than being extremely hot on an abnormally hot Las Vegas day in the Meadows Mall, a lot of kids cried and were very scared.

 

Once I put my suit on, though, they were fine.

 

(rimshot)

 

Seriously, though, that suit was hot.

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Yeah, that bunny does cry out for a photoshop job... maybe Pennywise from that Stephen King movie...

 

As for the eggs, I always used to map out their locations so that none were missed. And after the first hunt, we'd sometimes rehide them and do a second hunt - only after the kids got old enough to know that there wasn't actually an Easter Bunny... oops. Sorry if I gave that away for any of you. ;)

 

Anyway, Happy Easter everyone! :wave:

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Happy Easter - I grew up with it and enjoy it just fine - Chocolate Bunnies and all ! :thu:

 

It's really no big deal to let me enjoy it and there are lots of cool stories associated with it that a Mother and Father can pass down thru the years and so on. :cool:

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Happy Easter... my kids are with their Dad so I'm flying solo and enjoying the free time for a change. I took my kids out Thursday,prior to them going with their Dad on Friday night, to celebrate. I took them to the Argosy Casino where they advertise King Crab Legs on a buffet; my son has been asking to go. After the kids gorged on crab legs, then I took them out and bought both of them nice Easter outfits to wear for Easter. They had a great time.
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We took our kids out to my Aunt and uncle's farm.

 

Ian loved the trackers. He got to play with the cats and a dog. It was a lot of fun for him. He turns 3 on Tuesday.

 

Adriana mostly got held and loved by all of my Aunts and cousins.

 

I mostly marveled -as I do everytime- about how much work it is to run a farm. They used to raise pigs and cows, but it's just not possible to compete against the high-density feed lots anymore. My Uncle told me that those places can survive on an $8 or $10 a head profit for livestock.

 

Kinda off topic....but enjoy the small farms while ya got 'em, cause they're going away.

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Had dinner tonight with the wife and stepdaughter - yummy oreo cookie ice cream sandwich for desert, I guess I ate too much chocolate today - I found out a while back if you eat it pretty fast you can get more down ! :wave:
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Originally posted by kylen:

I wouldn't trade climbin in haylofts and silos and gettin chased by cows and bulls for anything.

Oh...the silos!!!! Man! If you want some great reverb, that's the place to be. My son and I were shouting into a silo, and all I could think of was sticking a drum or a guitar amp in there... :D

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RE; Easter bunny- I think the idea of the bunny originated as a symbol of innocence, with the lamb.

 

My kids are just now falling asleep after flying on chocolate all day. I enjoy the food, and the day, but I always end the day thinking how f'd up our holidays are now...Bunnies and fat men. Very little about Christ. I am not Christian, but I think our holidays now are just WRONG in there intent. Makes me a hypocrit I guess, but I tend to think I am stepping back from them slowly.

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It's funny with easter traditions, they vary greatly between countries. Where I live, easter bunnies is not part of the tradition but there are chocolate bunnies in the candy stores. Candy eggs, chocolate eggs, marzipan eggs etc is more common. We also eat a lot of chicken eggs.

 

The kids dress up themself as witches, going from door to door begging for candy - but there's no trick-or-treating going on. A folklore tale says that on easter all witches travel on their broom sticks to a place called "Blåkulla" (Blue Hill) to meet & greet.

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:D The great, great times in growing up with Aunts and Uncles that had huge farms. My two uncles had 250 combined acres of both cleared and wooded land. The raised cattle and other livestock for a living. We would usually make the jaunt over Easter holiday and always during summer vacation I would get to spend a couple of weeks down there (at least 2 weeks if not longer)

 

Between my mother and her 3 brothers, all had daughters except for 3 boys; my brother and 2 male cousins. There were 11 of us girls. When we would go strolling through the pasture, which was necessary to get to the creek we liked to go swimming in, my brother and cousins would hide out and start bombarding all the girls with dried up cow piles. I was more of a tomboy growing up, so I'd retaliate in some way or another, but most of the other (city) girls would start screaming and running for the house, whereas my female cousins from the country would just grab up the piles and start tossing them back. Used to play in the hay lofts, but you had to watch out for scorpions and snakes. Usually there were only bull snakes, which were considered to be friendly, but we were always on the lookout for copperheads just in case.

 

Those were great times.... Both uncles eventually moved away from ranching and took up truck driving. One uncle bought his own rig and ran privately while the other bought a Saw Mill to run during fair weather months and then took up driving diesels during weather that would prohibit him from lumbering.

 

Mats, just out of curiosity, does Sweden acknowledge Christianity? I''m not saying this to be ficicious; but asking in an earnest way as I truly don't know the culture of your land. I have heard that Christians are put to death in countries such as Northern Ireland (still).

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