EGGs

The Chickens finally laid! see the two eggs from yesterday below.  When i went out this morning, there was another egg in the box! - all medium to small sized when compared to a store bought 'jumbo' egg.  brownish tan, no blue or green which means that Maleficent (the mutt breed i'll call 'easter egger') still has yet to lay an egg.


For a quick grammar lesson:
If you exclude the meaning "to tell an untruth" and just focus on the setting/reclining meaning of lay and lie, then the important distinction is that lay requires a direct object and lie does not. So you lie down on the sofa (no direct object), but you lay the book down on the table (the book is the direct object).
This is in the present tense, where you are talking about doing something now: you lie down on the sofa, and you lay down a book.

Past tense is completely wacky no rules here, just memorization:

Photo: The Eggs