The day before at Buskin Beach while Nora and I were walking the dogs a large group of kids sprinted down from the USCG recreational facility and started to look for Easter eggs on the beach. Nora and I saw a few eggs and pointed them out to kids. But those eggs were plastic with like chocolate inside. So on Sunday Nora and I decided to go on a real 'beach combing' Easter egg hunt, and we drove out the road to find the best beaches for glass balls.
I showed Nora how to look for glass balls at the back of the driftwood and under the brush - all the glass ball finding tricks that I knew. And then we found a glass ball! I did not expect to actually find one. So many people go out there and it has been picked over for years. I only thought we had a slight chance of finding one that had been deeply buried in a log jam and only recently exposed.
Later I recounted to Nora that I first walked that beach and looked for glass balls way back in 1987 - over 35 years ago - and that I had most definitely walked within 200 yards of that very glass ball. In 1987 I did not find a glass ball either.
Needless to say, but now Nora is hooked on looking for glass balls. Next year we plan on doing another Easter 'egg' hunt.
Patrick
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