On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other
hazards)
Joyce Bupp
Crawling around on my hands
and knees, on the living room
floor, I came face to face with the
unexpected.
It was hiding there, just where
I had put it, tucked between the
overhanging leaves of a big spi
der plant and the edge of the
houseplant’s stoneware con
tainer.
An egg.
Well, not a real egg.
This was a fake egg, a very
pale, pastel-blue colored one,
with a soft, velvety-textured
“shell.” The pale blue egg had
come to live at our house a few
weeks ago accompanied by 11
other soft, pastel-colored com
panions, all neatly packaged in
their own see-through plastic
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carton. While the velvety-shells
are probably not very “clean
able,” these fakes look much
more realistic than those neon
bright ones.
As residents of our household,
the eggs had found a new home
in a small wicker basket, sur
rounded by shredded, blue-cel
lophane, fake “straw.” Keeping
watch over the basket and its
contents on the hutch is a small,
sparkly, fake bunny, gift on an
earlier Easter.
All these fake read, un
breakable decorations are ar
ranged and kept handy primarily
for the benefit of our family pre
schoolers.
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ented friends. A few are fragile
ceramic ones made at least two
decades ago for our kids by their
junior choir director. Some oth
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bits of colored tissue paper back
when decopage was the craft
rage of the age.
While it’s fun to reminisce
about friends and special times
with these delicate eggs, reality
demands that, during some
stretches of our lives, it’s just eas
ier to tuck pretty breakables
away. Little folks with tiny hands
are too precious to fuss at over
worrying about smashing memo
rabilia to smithereens.
So these velvety fake eggs are
a pretty and more sensible fit for
preschool fingers to play with,
hide around the house even
dump the whole basketful upside
down on the floor on occasion.
At a buck a dozen, the price was
right.
Our missing egg turn up dur
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the living room, after having in
dulged earlier in some grand
child egg hunt fun among the
furniture and plants. Not having
done an egg-head-count, we
didn’t know we had missed this
one.
Unlike some other eggs involv
ed in one of their recent playtime
egg hunts, however, this one
stayed put until it “got found.”
During our indoor hunt, their
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mother had suddenly remem
bered that they had never gath
ered up some real painted, hard
boiled eggs, which had been hid
den outside. Hard-boiled and de
corated Easter eggs, dragged
around outside and hidden
around mud, grass, twigs and
here on the farm, who knows
what else? are generally con
sidered as expendable playthings
rather than edibles. But they can
be gathered up and hidden nu
merous times, until too badly
squished or Derra Dog finds
them first and has a snack.
Checking later, she could find
no); a single one of the hidden
Easter eggs.
But about that same time,
while seated in their living room
in the middle of the night, feed
ing our new grandchild, Sarah,
our daughter had suddenly been
startled by the “bark” of a fox
right outside the window.
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“Bark” is a way-off misnomer
for the eerie, shrill scream made
by a fox, sounding more like
something out of a horror movie.
“It made the hair stand up on
the back of my neck,” she ad
mitted, adding that she could
hear the canine puttering around
outside the house for awhile
afterward.
Hunting Easter eggs perhaps?
Because not a single one of
those colored eggs has yet been
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My suggestion was that, if the
noisy, nocturnal fox makes a
habit of prowling and screaming
under their windows at 3 a.m.,
she can hide some more Easter
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with Tabasco and jalapeno,
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