Originally Posted by Irishguy
Originally Posted by Hunting-231
I come from a pretty large extended family. Every family would chip in $10 for 10-eggs. My uncle who didn’t have children would provide a single $100 egg that he would hide days before. He had a pretty large cattle farm and would always hide the egg under a cow patty. It was always hilarious watching all of the kids running into the field flipping the cow patties.


That's a good story.

We always had the VERY BEST Easters. Easter brings back so many great and wonderful memories of my childhood.

My Uncle Carl (I was named after him - my middle name is Carl) along with 3 or 4 of his brothers (these were some of my Great Uncles and Grandpa) would sit up all-night drinking and roasting goats (normally 3-4 goats) on a spit. My Grandma would have this indignant look on her face and say, "Look at em, they're all drunker than Cooter Brown."

There would probably be close to 150-people or so at his farm and the crazy thing is - everyone was related and knew each other. They'd hide around 450-500 eggs with each egg being worth a dollar, except Uncle Carl's egg (the $100 egg). EVERYONE knew it would be under a cow patty and if I remember correctly, it was the only egg that wasn't dyed - just a plain white boiled egg with nothing on it.

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