Geese

I am not sure if I should share this bit of our life, but I feel I must. We have a couple of geese that live here in the pond on the temple property. The female goose has made a nest and has some eggs that she is sitting on day and night to hatch. A few days ago, the MTC Supervisor of Support Services, Michael Miller, a man that I love, came in to tell me that the goose had laid a couple of eggs. He wanted to warn me that the temple grounds people would be painting them with oil, so that the eggs will not hatch. There are many reasons why they can't let them reproduce here every year, and the reason why they can't just take the eggs away is that she will keep laying them. So last year this poor mother, sat and waited, and sat and waited, and sat and waited some more. The more I thought about it, my heart began to break. I started looking up how long it takes for eggs to hatch and all kinds of information. The male goose stays close by in the water and protects the eggs from any blue heron that may be close by. It is a good thing that I was raised by a rancher father that taught me that animals were put on the earth for man and not the other way around. I will report on her progress from time to time...I hope she doesn't waste her whole summer waiting for goslings that will never be hatched.