Egg

After an eggcellent, lively family holiday dinner in our new home, Jim and I recalled many spring festivities in the Cazadero hills/Timber Cove area, where we lived for 20 years.

We hope you enjoy this scrapbook of community gatherings and egg phenomena.

At one of Naomi Granoff’s egg parties, we play Egg Snatch. Object of the game: grab the egg from the Wild Hog wine bottle without stepping over the circumference line.

The late Timothy Osmer–with help from John Entriken– retrieves the egg.

All teams collaborate creatively, but Timothy and John walk away with egg victory.

Naomi also cleverly devises Goose Egg Pool, another party hit. Marcella Robinson donates the enormous goose eggs, painted pool-style by Naomi and Julie Guibord.

Naomi invents the special cue stick from a tennis ball and PVC pipe (plumbing glue still on it.)

Pool shark Carolyne Singer shrewdly aims for the 8 ball.

The late Ed Tunnheim’s signature party greeting was a friendly knock on the head with a confetti-filled egg.

Please tell us more egg party memories in the comment section, but now it’s time for a pretty bad egg yolk joke:

What do you call a mischievous egg?

A practical yolker.

This yolk was a main ingredient in Jim’s cooking project. See his culinary expertise in the Wild Art Archives story, Jim’s Bitchin’ Kitchen.*

Egg shapes are beautiful.

The Ecuadorian egg nut rattle is a valued gift.

The forest egg puddle reflection is a surprise.

Salt Point State Park’s enormous rock egg nested for eons.

To show how huge the rock egg is, Jim’s brother, Roger, stands on it. This egg is now washed away. I miss it.

Moving right along, you must know that Bat Man laid an egg.

You may also know that one of the world’s most diverse egg collections resides in Idaho’s Shoshone Bird Museum.

When we moved to the Caz wild lands decades ago, we became egg snobs. We immensely appreciate neighbors and farmers with free range flocks.

Now, even though we live in a city, my family seeks out eggs from hens with healthy living conditions.

Eggs are miraculous.

• See Jim’s Bitchin’ Kitchen story from Archives April 5, 2022 (scroll down a bit more)