March 20--The sun is out for a few hours. This would be a good time to get in your boat and paddle around your neighborhood for a while.

This may be my last entry until Monday. That's because if the St.Louis tide recedes, I'll be attending my 3 year old's preschool Easter egg hunt tomorrow.

Where did this tradition begin? I mean, it's the holiest Christian holiday of the year and we celebrate it by making our children run around a field looking for hardboiled stained chicken embryos. I don't think it's a coincidence that this little ritual follows so closely to St. Patrick's Day.

I'm pretty sure that whoever came up with it was drunk.

I mean, imagine a bunch of religious leaders way back when getting hammered on St.Patrick's Day discussing how to celebrate Easter....

"So, Father Joseph, I say that for Easter we have a ceremony featuring music and a symbolic candlelight vigil...."

"NONSENSE Father Luke (belch)! I say we paint a bunch of breakfast food and hide it in the trees and bushes for the little ones to find!"

So, there it is and there I'll be. I'm just sorry that when they decided on which breakfast food to color and hide they chose "eggs". I like bacon much better.

Until Monday....  I hope you survive Another Day In The Gray.

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