JUST BECAUSE
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Conversation between my daughter and me.
Me: 'Mary Elizabeth, is it smart to poke a hot, boiling potato with your bare finger to see if it's done?'
Mary Elizabeth: 'No. That's dumb. That's very dumb!'
Me: 'It's dumb, huh?'
Mary Elizabeth: 'You just did that, didn't you?'
As Ray Stevens would say, 'Yeah, I did.' LOL
*No finger was harmed in the making of this post.
*Not recommended to try at home.
Me: 'Mary Elizabeth, is it smart to poke a hot, boiling potato with your bare finger to see if it's done?'
Mary Elizabeth: 'No. That's dumb. That's very dumb!'
Me: 'It's dumb, huh?'
Mary Elizabeth: 'You just did that, didn't you?'
As Ray Stevens would say, 'Yeah, I did.' LOL
*No finger was harmed in the making of this post.
*Not recommended to try at home.
I know this guy everyone calls Crebbs... he came home one day after pulling a triple shift. He says he was completely exhausted, barely awake, but very hungry. So he sat a pot of water on the stove, brought it to a boil and dropped 4 hot dogs in... and he stood their and waited, and shifted his weight back and forth as his felt his thoughts get drowsy.
When the hot dogs finally looked like they were ready, he reached into the water with his fingers to grab one. *Yeouch* he said, and drew his hand back and looked at it - dumbfounded as to why it hurt. So he shook it off and reached in again... only to have the exact identical reaction. Crebbs says he did this four times before his brain finally made sense of why it hurt and he went and got a fork...
Since then, every time one of the few of us that were around to hear him tell this story do something blatantly stupid... we say we 'Pulled a Crebbs" =)
When the hot dogs finally looked like they were ready, he reached into the water with his fingers to grab one. *Yeouch* he said, and drew his hand back and looked at it - dumbfounded as to why it hurt. So he shook it off and reached in again... only to have the exact identical reaction. Crebbs says he did this four times before his brain finally made sense of why it hurt and he went and got a fork...
Since then, every time one of the few of us that were around to hear him tell this story do something blatantly stupid... we say we 'Pulled a Crebbs" =)
Old Deliveranceville Proverb:
While it is true a watched pot never boils, it is also true that an unwatched pot boils over.
While it is true a watched pot never boils, it is also true that an unwatched pot boils over.
Does the grass scream once the scalding begins?
I haven't put my hand into really hot water accidentally in a long time. I have however, bumped a really hot pot or pan with my hand in the past year. That was just as dumb.
I haven't put my hand into really hot water accidentally in a long time. I have however, bumped a really hot pot or pan with my hand in the past year. That was just as dumb.
I'm looking at green bedrooms online.
edit to add: that doesn't have anything to do with hot firemen
edit to add: that doesn't have anything to do with hot firemen
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The only fireman I know is the fat bloke who lives near me, and sadly he is not hot. The hottest guy I know is my secondary/high school's IT technician, who had to leave because of sexual harrassment from pupils AND teachers (true fact!)...
Just because...
I was boiling eggs yesterday and I left them on the range while I went to my bedroom and logged onto AW (of course).
Well,
about 45 minutes later, I heard this "pop, pop, POP"
Yep, I'd forgot they were cooking and when I ran into the kitchen, I found egg all over the stove and the counter and the floor and the cabinets - It really stunk the kitchen up, too - Had to turn the exhaust fan on and light a Yankee Candle.
I plunged the pot into the sink, filled it with cold water, peeled the remaining eggs and was able to make egg salad for Mr. Hunny's lunch for today.
Oh, and YES. I did burn my fingers on the "hot" eggs.
Is there a moral to this story?
I dunno.
I'm rambling now, aren't I?
Ok,
Carry on.
< I lurve and miss you too, Milly >
I was boiling eggs yesterday and I left them on the range while I went to my bedroom and logged onto AW (of course).
Well,
about 45 minutes later, I heard this "pop, pop, POP"
Yep, I'd forgot they were cooking and when I ran into the kitchen, I found egg all over the stove and the counter and the floor and the cabinets - It really stunk the kitchen up, too - Had to turn the exhaust fan on and light a Yankee Candle.
I plunged the pot into the sink, filled it with cold water, peeled the remaining eggs and was able to make egg salad for Mr. Hunny's lunch for today.
Oh, and YES. I did burn my fingers on the "hot" eggs.
Is there a moral to this story?
I dunno.
I'm rambling now, aren't I?
Ok,
Carry on.
< I lurve and miss you too, Milly >
Just because...
I was boiling eggs yesterday and I left them on the range while I went to my bedroom and logged onto AW (of course).
Well,
about 45 minutes later, I heard this "pop, pop, POP"
Yep, I'd forgot they were cooking and when I ran into the kitchen, I found egg all over the stove and the counter and the floor and the cabinets - It really stunk the kitchen up, too - Had to turn the exhaust fan on and light a Yankee Candle.
I plunged the pot into the sink, filled it with cold water, peeled the remaining eggs and was able to make egg salad for Mr. Hunny's lunch for today.
Oh, and YES. I did burn my fingers on the "hot" eggs.
Is there a moral to this story?
I dunno.
I'm rambling now, aren't I?
Ok,
Carry on.
< I lurve and miss you too, Milly >
Reminds me of the time I microwaved the leftover Brussels sprouts a little too long. When I heard the pop, pop, pop in the microwave, I thought it was popcorn.
Reminds me of the time I microwaved the leftover Brussels sprouts a little too long. When I heard the pop, pop, pop in the microwave, I thought it was popcorn.
DANG!
Those bad boys must have been as hard as rocks at that point, huh?
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The Brussels sprouts didn't get hard, they just exploded and disappeared off the plate. Then there was this green confetti dangling from the roof of the microwave.
I'm so excited! I've got a bud on my gardenia bush for the first time ever.
You just reminded me to check on my cactus
You just reminded me to check on my cactus
We've had a lot of beautiful yellow blooms on the wild prickly pear cactus around here.
We've had a lot of beautiful yellow blooms on the wild prickly pear cactus around here.
Mine flowered once, when I first got it. It hasn't flowered since
But it is growing nicely Just because I'm so horrible with plants that I can manage to kill cacti.
Trust me, it's impossible. You basically only have to water it once every month, and then sit it in the sun
Well, I water mine more in summer because it gets quite hot here. But so long as you water it when the soil gets dry it should be fine.
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