It Was A Dog Bone Day

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter, filling up on tasty eggy dishes from those 25 eggs you hid for the grandkids.  This was my contribution to the big breakfast for one.  This is a mushroom bacon Swiss quiche.  Sort of sounds like a burger.  As usual, I always put way too much stuff in the middle and not enough egg.

I was grumbling about the cost of eggs, though they are back down to $5.99 for 18, when I was surprised with this.  It used to happen often on the ranch where I was the chief egg gatherer, but nowadays, I don't think I've seen one in over 30 years.  It's a sign ... of what I don't know, but it's a sign!!

Sadly, bacon has not gone the same route.  One 12 ounce package (instead of the usual 16) is now $7.99.  I love bacon, but this is a rip off.  Maybe it's just that prices are higher in California.

As you probably know, Safeway is one of the more expensive stores.  In Arizona, that block of cheddar cheese is now $4.99 at Safeway.  Here at Save Mart, it's a whopping $7.99 at the moment ... for 8 ounces.  Just for giggles, I checked on the price of this huge bag of already shredded cheese.  THIS was 32 ounces and cost me $5.99.  Is it not the same cheese but processed more?  

Well yeah, it's a Mexican blend and it's dusted with cornstarch to keep it from sticking together, but I can live with that for quiche and tacos.  If I'm going to stay in the fabric business, I'm going to have to cut back on everything else.  Priorities you know!!

It was quite tasty alongside an English muffin, but was 10:30 before breakfast was served.  That's okay, it's not like I had an appointment with Prince Charming or anything.

When I finally retrieved the game camera, I was rather surprised that the fox was not the least bit interested in eggs ... colored or plain.  Well that's weird.  Watch the left side, then the top left corner.  Wait for it ....... what the heck?  Never in my life have I seen anything like that!!  Pretty athletic these kids!

Not wanting to waste the eggs, I sent Cooper out for his Easter egg hunt.  Yeah, I didn't hide them very well, which is probably why he found every single one.  That meant I had egg salad and crackers for dinner.  I mean really, did my parents cook these eggs the day before, set them in a basket on the counter for 24 hours, hide them for an hour outside in the sun ..... and then FEED THEM TO US?

Yes ... yes they did ..... because here's me at Easter on the original ranch in the high desert, behind our white picket fence.  I'm pretty sure that's a dog bone I'm chewing on.  Yes, there are rattlesnakes in the desert and I KNOW that 4" square wire fence kept them all out.

Even back then, I was a goer ... nothing could keep me down or IN except that fence.  One day they forgot to close the gate and I followed my dad to the field during harvest.  I think I was 3-1/2 at the time.  When they finally missed me and went looking, they found I had tried to crawl through the wooden gate by the barn and got stuck.  I cried myself to sleep.  And I wonder why I have crazy nightmares all the time!  LOL

Luckily I survived the dog bone days, the front yard, the day-old almost-rotten eggs and the cattle grazing in the back.  That's why I'm so tough ... you had to be to survive when you were born on a cattle ranch.