Ever been excited over an Easter egg hunt? Well, the bunny gets most of the credit with kids, but it wouldn’t happen if it wasn’t for the chickens and the eggs. Just kidding of course … My Dad semi-retired when my brother and I were preteens … and he spent oodles of time with us once we sort of settled in Maine. He built us incubators and we hatched ducklings and chickens. We kept a few little bantam chickens, 2 pet rabbits and 2 ducks (Hazel and George) – but all the extras were given to a nearby farm who gladly accepted them. Loads of learning lessons there. We also made home made root beer and he bought us a bottle capper so we could look professional. We even designed labels. LOL We learned to sail, hunt, fish and trap and we were enormously into space and bottle rockets with our own firing station. Those lessons continued right through grands and great grands until he died at 91. Wow, could I ever use a few lessons on stuff now. Like how do you stop a beeping smoke detector that’s wired in? Changing the battery didn’t work. You have to take it out of the loop and buy another. Even totally disconnected and in our hand, it still beeped for a while!!! I threw it out on the porch and two more beeps! Who knew? It was possessed I think.
