Sunny side up

People are predictable.  When you get to know someone it becomes increasingly easy to forsee how they will react to a given situation.  Now I'm in no way referring to those ridiculous personality boxes people seem so fond of, but rather those quirks of a persons' nature that are an irrepressible force.  For example have you ever met a person who loves bold and exciting ideas, but rarely thinks through the practicalities?  I did once, and then I married her.
So while I expertly nodded my mock excitment over her new passion for incubating my parents chicken's eggs my uneasiness grew.  Visions of me constructing incubators, brooding and outdoor pens ran riot.  The unsavoury thought of 6 or 7 slowly rotting eggs sitting on our kitchen bench was impossible to dispel.  Even if these unlucky volunteers survived the trivial matter of gestation their greatest challenge awaited: our 4 kids and their liking for using small animals as stress balls.
With this in mind resisted the idea, offering all the sensible and rational reasons why this fell into the "Bad Idea" basket.  Of course this reasoning was ignored and with my stocks rapidly falling I relented.
At this point I must admit that the process was engrossing, and we have learnt alot.  From four fertile eggs one made it while the others sadly were dead in their shells.  This warrior has been name "Chirpy" by the kids, mainly because being alone the blighter never shuts up.
In signing off I must admit regret at my initial resistance to bringing the eggs home.  Have you ever met one of those people who never try anything because they think of all the practical things that can go wrong?  My wife has!