It’s Egg Standing Time!
Posted by Kirk M on 20 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: BackWoods tech, Life at home
It’s officially Spring folks and with the coming of Spring comes the Vernal equinox and the time of the Standing Of The Egg.
If you didn’t know about this little miracle that comes but once a year (at 8:07 pm EDT this year–see quote below), for a small period of time (I don’t remember exactly how long but long enough), you can stand a raw egg on it’s wide end and if you can be patient about the whole exercise it will stand there there like a…well…little egg soldier I guess.
One year my wife had five of the little breakfast buddies standing all in a group like they were all attending some sort of pre-chicken indoctrination or something. Last year it was only two since the others we tried had too many bumps on their respective bottoms. Quality control must have been down that month. Either way, here’s the picture we took just to prove it can be done and no—we didn’t dab glue on there behinds or hard boil them first.
March (3/20/06, 3/21/07, 3/20/08, 3/20/09, 3/20/10, 3/20/11, 3/20/12, 3/20/13, 3/20/14, 3/20/15, 3/20/16, 3/20/17, 3/20/18, 3/20/19, 3/20/20)
Far from being an arbitrary indicator of the changing seasons, March 20 (March 21 in some years) is significant for astronomical reasons. On March 20, 2007, at precisely 8:07 P.M. EDT (March 21, 00:07 Universal Time), the Sun will cross directly over the Earth’s equator. This moment is known as the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere.
So give it a try folks and see how many you can stand at once and don’t forget the pictures. You’d be surprised how many people won’t believe it.
Thanks to my honey for reminding me and Elaine over at Elaine’s Place for the exact time and the quote I stole. 
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on 20 Mar 2007 at 10:26 am 1.Elaine said …
Only you would know about this egg trick lol. Very interesting! I think I think I am out of eggs or I would try this
HAPPY SPRING!
on 20 Mar 2007 at 8:36 pm 2.KirkM said …
I can’t take credit for this one. I got the info from laurie and when she showed me the picture of 8 or more eggs all standing on their pert little bottoms I was flabbergasted.
We stood three this year. I’ll write up a post with the best image tonight or tomorrow evening.
on 21 Mar 2007 at 5:12 pm 3.Cat said …
Egg standing time? This is the first time I’ve ever heard of it, but it sounds like a intersting idea!
How are the cats doing, btw?
on 21 Mar 2007 at 6:25 pm 4.KirkM said …
The cats are crazy as ever especially the new one…Dingo. Lives up to his name he does. I would have posted some of their anitcs earlier but I’ve been laid up with this and that.