Frozen Easter eggs in Ontario?

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:24 pm

Frances,

Do kids hunt for Easter eggs in the snow in Ontario? My sister, on the shores of Lake Superior, said it was only 2 degrees F when she got up yesterday morning. Seems like the eggs would freeze!

Of course, if they are chocolate that makes them better!

Or are egg hunts a US thing? Was just thinking about this and realized that I really don't know!

Carol

Post by **Tracey** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:29 pm

Egg hunts are a U.K thing too (where it originated i dont know ?) and it was - 2 here today with slushy rain and snow but felt much colder

so those who hunt i think will be doing it inside tomorrow

Post by **paddyscar** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:10 pm

Hi Carol:

Kids do indeed hunt for Easter eggs in Ontario. Last year we were in Ottawa with our son's family and the kids hunted for eggs in the yard in their winter coats and played hockey on the road afterwards as the snow flakes came down.

It was -20 celsius or -4 farenheit yesterday morning and the wind is keeping it pretty chilly. That's why the Easter Bunny has a fur coat!

Mid-March is a little too early for putting away the winter jackets yet at the hub of the Great Lakes.

Have a happy holiday!
Frances

Post by **AndrewP** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:12 pm

Tracey wrote:... and it was - 2 here today with slushy rain and snow but felt much colder so those who hunt i think will be doing it inside tomorrow

Be thankful it was -2 Centigrade and not the +2 Fahrenheit that Carol describes.

All the best,

AndrewP
and its snowing in Edinburgh

(but not expecting enough to be worth looking out the skis)

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:23 pm

Easter eggs and hockey! I love it! Did they use a frozen egg as a puck?

I grew up about 30 miles north of Detroit which is actually north of Windsor, Canada.

I don't remember ever hunting eggs in the snow--cold muddy yard, yes! I do remember many opening day baseball games--mid April-- played in snow showers--especially after the powers that be kept pushing up opening day to get in more games and make more money. They finally figured out that Mother Nature didn't really care what they did so now the early games are all scheduled for the south or west.

I'm going to do some googling. I don't know where hunting eggs came from either!

Carol

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:50 am

The Easter Bunny has a different problem here - trying to keep the eggs from melting. Is about 30 celsius here in Sydney today and has been quite warm for the past week so have to find a cool place to keep the eggs so they don't melt. (Adelaide has been even worst averaging 40 celsius for the last two weeks or so). Not sure what he does with his fur coat when he arrives here.

Post by **joette** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 12:02 pm

The Easter Bunny will be hopping around my Mum's back garden for all the grand/great-grand weans this afternoon.
He bears a peculiar resembelance to Joette who was spotted in Liddl's buying lots of eggs last week.

We have had rain but no snow although my niece who is my home in London reports she has snow! So I have come North & missed it so far!

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 12:11 pm

Looks like egg hunting is one of those things that just happened. Wikepedia doesn't have much on it, but does credit our ancestors in Scotland and north England with creating egg rolling where people rolled eggs down hills--hopefully hard cooked eggs!

There is also something called egg napping (I think) where people hit each other with their eggs then ate the eggs. One way to crack the shells!

In the US we do egg rolling on level ground with the kids pushing the eggs to the finish line with a spoon. Only kids can get down on the ground and crawl that far!

I enjoy decorating the eggs. Every year I tell myself that I really need to try doing the fancy ones with wax, but never have yet. Maybe next year!

Carol

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:21 pm

I remember Easter Egg hunts from when I was a kid but I haven’t been invited to one lately. They used to be conducted indoors because, as Maz says, the chocolate eggs probably would have melted outside.

Easter Sunday morning last year I let the cat out of his usual place of confinement. Five minutes later I looked out the window and there was the cat looking straight at me and looking very pleased with himself with a recently deceased Easter Bunny neatly lined up beside him. And guess what! No eggs!

Happy Easter,
Alan

Post by **paddyscar** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:33 am

What size of cat, do you have. Alan?!? ... that it can track down a bunny for a treat?

Most cats I know of, go for the birds, mice or the odd squirrel, but I've not heard of one with a penchant for wild rabbit!

Happy Easter,
Frances