Event worth the stink of cooked eggs
Event worth the stink of cooked eggs
Have you ever gone outside and then walked back into your house after cooking food? Usually you get this awesome sensation of bread, cookies or dinner, but let me tell you when you walk back into your house after hard boiling 15 dozen eggs, food is not the first thing that comes to your mind. It's more of a "Yuck, what IS that smell?"
I had the pleasure of enduring that wonderful egg sensation these past couple of days when I volunteered Moses Lake High School's Key Club to help hard boil Easter eggs for the annual Moses Lake Easter egg hunt that the Lions Club puts on.
Key Club is a high school volunteering club so I figured that helping Lions Club was a perfect opportunity for students to get involved. Little did I know what I was getting myself into.
The Lions Club works with Wilcox Farms and the Columbia Basin Herald to buy more than 550 dozen eggs for the big event on Saturday. All those eggs have to be hard boiled and colored for the Easter egg hunt. That doesn't sound like very many eggs, but trust me, it is. I volunteered Key Club to hard boil and color 100 dozen of the Easter eggs, unwittingly putting myself in charge of the eggs.
Because of my eagerness to volunteer to help the community, I now had to drive down to the Ripple during lunch to pick up my seven boxes of eggs. The Ripple graciously allows the Lions Club to store eggs in their walk-in refrigerator every year. Not really thinking it through, I collected Key Club's seven boxes and drove them to my house. However, there was a slight problem. These boxes of eggs are huge, as they hold 15 dozen eggs in each box. There are five flats of eggs and each flat has 30 eggs. That is a lot of eggs and a huge box, and I had nowhere to store it all.
My mother wasn't really impressed with my brilliance either. I managed to get two of the boxes into our refrigerator and then had to store the rest in our garage where it was nice and cool because my lunch was now over and I needed to get back to school. I then had to find Key Clubbers to come take the rest of the eggs so that we could get them hard boiled and back to the Ripple for storage. Some people are just not as eager to hard boil and color eggs as I am though.
After much ado, by 9 o'clock that night six of my seven boxes had been taken care of by students, thank goodness.
Needless to say, my job wasn't over yet. After hard boiling all of my eggs I had to make sure everyone else finished theirs and brought them back by Friday night. I also had the duty of making sure they were all colored too.
That's when little sisters and little sisters' friends come in handy. We had an egg coloring extravaganza at my house, and we colored more than 540 eggs.
If you have never had the pleasure of watching the Moses Lake annual Easter egg hunt, seeing the little children's eyes light up with eagerness and anticipation makes it all worthwhile. Watching the children running and picking up the eggs is an experience in itself. I was witness to one of the most touching acts of kindness. There was a small boy who wasn't as fast as some of the other children and had only collected three or four eggs. A young girl who had gathered a basketful of eggs walked over with her father and shared her eggs with the young boy. She placed some of her eggs in his basket until she determined that both baskets were just right. I was very moved by this act of kindness and was glad that I had volunteered my time to help with this annual Easter egg hunt.
Lana Cromer is the the Columbia Basin Herald's news clerk and a very involved Moses Lake High School student.
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