Real quick, yesterday we toured a farm here in Denver (The Urban Farm) with one of our homeschool groups. Allison is enchanted with the chickens, and she got to go into the hen house and retrieve some eggs. They even let her take one home with her! She carefully carried that egg for the remainder of the tour, carried it all the way home, made a safe place for it in the van while we went shopping, carried it into the house, placed it gingerly on the couch until I told her that she should put it on the counter in case someone goes to sit down and doesn’t see the egg. She carefully placed it on the counter, on top of a baby blanket. Her plan was to show daddy the egg, and then cook it and eat it (it was organic and free range). Originally when she first got the egg, I think she thought if she took good care of it, she would get a chicken out of the deal. Anyway, Jess’s boyfriend came over and Allison went to get the egg to show him - CRUSHING it! That thing exploded! All over the carpet, couch and Jeff (Jess’s boyfriend). Allison was DEVASTATED! At least we had pictures of her getting the egg, so she could show that to Daddy (I will try to post one here later). But she couldn’t cook it and eat it!
Here is what I learned: Egg yolk, especially the organic free range kind, is a BEAST to get out of carpet! Jess had to SCRUB it with the carpet cleaner repeatedly, and you can still see signs of it. Thank you Jess!
