Hope
Grant came up with the word to describe our candling exercise. HOPE.
Who knew incubating eggs could be so metaphorical?
Our candling exercise to check the development of our 28 eggs was an adventure in patience, trial-and-error and ingenuity. One of the hardest parts was "making" our candler. But we persevered and finally figured it out. One clear result we found is that instead of candling in a "darkened" room, it's best just to candle at night! But sheets and blankets over windows helped this morning.
(28 because two met with accidents while turning. We are not pointing fingers).
We read about egg development.
clear means no development,
a blood ring means the embryo is dead,
a small dark spot within a mass of little blood veins floating means life.
Our emotions were not in check and started to nosedive when the first half dozen eggs presented clear or blood ring.
Failure. We had failed.
But then ... is that a small dark spot? Are those veins. Is it floating? LIFE.
YES! We have floating! We have dark spots.
Our moods improved and we proceeded. We decided to mark the eggs with the bloodrings and clearness with a "U" for unknown. We just could not throw them out or call them dead without Dad doublechecking us.
The life eggs got a happy face.
Tally:
18 smiley faces
10 U
Posted in: on Thursday, April 03, 2008 at at 11:40 AM
