{"id":832,"date":"2011-09-23T23:43:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T03:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/myhappyplace\/?p=832"},"modified":"2011-09-24T00:02:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T04:02:47","slug":"the-egg-basket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/myhappyplace\/2011\/09\/the-egg-basket.html","title":{"rendered":"The Egg Basket"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m fascinated by egg baskets. This may be, in part, because I have chickens. And they lay eggs.<\/p>\n

At any rate, an egg basket actually scored a spot on my vision board–a large poster board I have in my bedroom featuring photographs of things I hope to have in my future. The egg basket photo is glued right next to a picture of a barn and another showing a remodeled bathroom (by the way, I created this vision board 15 months ago and almost everything has come true).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A month or so ago my sister and I were in a Goodwill store and she noticed an unusually tall and narrow metal pot with a lid. We both agreed it would make a perfect container to keep on my kitchen counter where we could store each day’s table scraps for the appreciative chickens. When we opened it up we found a lovely little metal basket the same shape and size nestled inside.\u00a0 (We later deducted this strange kitchen item is an asparagus steamer.) The basket became my egg basket. I was happy with it.<\/p>\n

When I saw the $15 big metal red egg baskets at the farm store, I reminded myself–smugly–that I had a pretty one at home and it had a matching scrap bucket. HA!<\/p>\n

When I saw the $30 egg baskets at the antique stores, I knew I had scored well with my Goodwill $2 buy.<\/p>\n

Maybe I had developed a bad habit of putting down other egg baskets because today….when I saw an actual egg basket at a yard sale marked for 25 cents…I almost walked on by it. It was an egg basket very similar to the one pasted on my vision board. Did I mention it was 25 cents? But, you see, it was mixed in with the Christmas items…and it had a bit of Christmas ribbon tied to it…which made it look so wrong. And so I didn’t recognize it as even being an egg basket (like it needed to have eggs in it for me to see that?).<\/p>\n

Funny, though–when I paid my 25 cents and took it home and snipped off the ribbons and filled it with eggs–now it looks exactly right.<\/p>\n

This egg basket makes me wonder about how many times I wish for something and then don’t recognize it when I see it? Hmmm…something to ponder.<\/p>\n

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