The “House Critters” Easter Morning  

  Henrietta and the rest of the house critters had been lying around in various parts of the house for most of the morning when she noticed Barbara, the oldest human female; bring out a new flag from the back walk in closet. Flags are special to the critters because they mean changes to the decorations which normally meant a special day or season is coming and there will be treats. 

  Henrietta Bobbie Bunny was the eldest of the critters and she gathered up the other critters to figure out what was going to happen. Big Bunny and Blue Booby were in the living room hopping on the couch, while Ducky Duck and Rainy Reindeer were in the bed room snuggled up on a bunch of pillows. Henrietta got the two from the couch and went in to join the two on the bed which placed all five of the critters in one place. Ducky said “the flag was many colors and we both think Snoopy was on it.” Nobody could think of what special day this flag represented.

  Barb started taking down all the snowmen and skiers along with removing winter outfits from the stuffed rabbits and bears in the antique room. The decorations were replaced with rabbits and ducks while the new outfits were bright spring colors. There was also a very large rabbit that was put on the commode in the living room along with a bowl of colored eggs.

 None of the critters had a good long term memory but between them they usually came up with what was related to flags and decorations. After the talking went on for a while Big went into the living room and watched Bob, the male human, put the flag out on the front porch. When Big went back to the group he confirmed that Snoopy was on the flag and he was riding a very large brightly colored egg. Blue remembered a time when the humans had looked around many of the downstairs room to find colored eggs that had candy inside them. Rainy followed this with remembering them going outside to do the same thing only with bigger eggs that were all white. They didn’t remember what the special day was called but the possibility of having treats kept them paying attention to what the humans were doing.

  Henrietta though they had got it wrong when nothing special happened for days and was about to give up on treats when things started to happen. It was early morning, before the adult humans ever got out of bed, when she heard sounds coming from the living room and went to investigate. Amy, the young female human, was scurrying around hiding colored eggs and other items in, under and behind anything she could in five of the downstairs rooms. Henrietta was so intent on watching Amy she didn’t notice Avatar, Amy’s boy friend of many years, come into the room and when she did she jumped into Amy. Amy put a finger up to her lips which Henrietta knew meant to keep quite. They had an item for each person for each room, with each of them hiding stuff for the other. Amy told Henrietta that there would be critter treats hidden for the outside egg hunt planned for the afternoon.

  After the older humans got up and had some coffee the indoor egg hunt got started. With one item each in five rooms it took awhile as you weren’t to pick up somebody elses treat or let them know where you found theirs. A few of the better hiding spots included the ledge under the leafs in the dining room table, an egg hidden in the goblet of Mickey eggs and one for Bob that Amy put on top of a hutch using a step stool so he couldn’t just reach up and feel it.

  The critters got a surprise when Avatar let them know there was a critter item in each of the five rooms, which if you paid attention at the beginning of the story worked out perfectly. There were chocolates of all types for the humans and a special handmade veggie treat custom made for each critter!