Go outside and gather ‘porcupine’ eggs
Life is a whale of a lot more fun if you can sport a smile on your face.
I challenge you to join me in a playful task. If you have an empty egg carton lying around the kitchen, cabbage onto it and take it with you when you venture outside. You’ll need it to help you transport some porcupine eggs back to your home.
It will do you little good to make a stop at the neighborhood grocery store and inquire of the staff as to which aisle holds the object of your search. Instead, you need to take a nature hike in a vacant lot where the soil surface has been abused and disturbed. You’ll recognize the porcupine eggs when you venture close.
Of course, this is all an exercise in a good-natured practical joke. Porcupines don’t lay eggs. Cocklebur plants, however, have spiny seeds that look a whole lot like what you might expect a porcupine egg to look like.
That is, naturally, if porcupines did, indeed, lay eggs.
Neil Garrison was the longtime naturalist at a central Oklahoma nature center. His email is atlatlgarrison@hotmail.com.