My leukemia's back.

[Suzie]

Suzie,
That is funny about your pans! If it's any comfort here's good pan story for you: We homeschool. My oldest daughter was Taking an outside science class. It was required for her final to do a science experiment and write it up. So she finally decides to make a homemade smoke bomb- unbeknownst to me!

I am not home the first few times she attempts this. One day I come home to find several of my really good pots blackened with unknown char. Get them cleaned up and use them for dinner. A few days later I walk in to find her attempting to create a smoke bomb (again). Then suddenly the whole pot explodes catches fire and smoke bombs the house completely! After my recovering and checking to make sure no was around to call the police or fire department, we air out the house and I find my only noncharred pan sporting a new fire hardened color.

It had to be tossed. The others after years of use are finally back to a rainbow steel color. She learned a lot from that experiment and we had a good laugh after. But I don't miss those type of projects!
One of my favorite products for blackened pans is Setting it with water to boil to loosen things up then using Barkeeper's friend- a powdered soap- on it. Usually takes several rounds of this to bring back to semi silver in color and after a few months of use it looks pretty normal.

This year we went over to my oldest daughter, her husband and my oldest son's townhouse (housing is very expensive here!!) for Thanksgiving! What a joy to walk in and see them both cooking! It was a relaxed time a being together. We actually had warm weather of 70~. Amazing. Today it was similar so went on a short hike with my middle DD. My youngest is extremely excited as she has been invited not to one but 2 birthday parties this weekend! (I can count on one hand how many she has been to in her 13 years.) So grateful for this as she is very social and longs to be part of things. So back to making/cutting/tying together a polar fleece Disney princesses blanket for Sunday's party!!

The bales were $8 at TSW??? Oh man... I did Black Friday shopping from my bed and then ran to Petsmart for their fish sale and also found 50% off Pur Love dog bones! Stocked up on those! Left a couple of bags on the shelf! Paid $30 and saved $36. Fish were about 66% off on the ones I bought. Now I can go downstairs to watch "fish t.v." to chill for a few minutes every day. (Phil, no fishing allowed!). Did't realize how much I missed it. It was my reward for ripping out and decluttering the basement family room. Fully filled my friends car with donations!
This week we begin to ramp up for Julia's heart cath with a pre-op visit. Will try to stop back. Will try to post one photo of her at the sleep study center. She looked like a mummy! Before leaving she said "No Sharps?? Mommy, No sharps!" Thankfully I was able to say,"Yes, No sharps just sticky like when we check your heart." Little did I know that they now mummify them so that the cords don't get tangled and so they can't pull off the sensors!

Yikes..so your Daughter followed in my footsteps and created smoke bombs...rainbow coloured pans are a wonderful topic for conversation here...well, that is apart from my Husband who is despairing of my culinary (non) skills...thanks for such a laugh...glad it is not only me that can create disasters...

 

[donrae]

Thanks Ron, that seems to have worked. Bless you!

 

[ronott1]

Thanks Ron, that seems to have worked. Bless you!

Your Welcome!

I go back and forth from the mobile to the desktop depending on what I am doing.

 

[turtlesgalore]

mental note "Ron's the go to for computer questions when my 17 year old's not home." I even stressed out when I found out my new microwave doesn't have a bake potato button. whew at least it has the popcorn one. I just use the 30 second for everthing. I can cook outside on open fire with cast iron. but when it comes to technology. I'm like alice in wonderland. everything's strange and i'm always lost.

 

[donrae]

Now I just need to have Ron come over and help me get our surround sound system working again. I unplugged it when I was cleaning yesterday and apparently it needs something besides just being plugged back in

. I have a house full of teenage boys and they are clueless, they weren't home when Honey set it up. Oh, and we just threw away the box last month, I'm sure the directions were in it.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

mental note "Ron's the go to for computer questions when my 17 year old's not home."  I even stressed out when I found out my new microwave doesn't have a bake potato button. whew at least it has the popcorn one.   I just use the 30 second for everthing.  I can cook outside on open fire with cast iron. but when it comes to technology. I'm like alice in wonderland.  everything's strange and i'm always lost.

I remember when microwave first came out.....they were like magic and expensive. Just like VCRs

 

[N F C]

I remember when microwave first came out.....they were like magic and expensive. Just like VCRs

I remember that! My first microwave (Amana Radar Range) came from a furniture store. Because they were so new at the time, 3 free cooking lessons were included and a cook book. That thing was a hulk compared to the newer ones but it lasted forever. For about the first year the only thing I used it for was to heat up my youngest son's baby bottles...he'll be 30 in a couple weeks and has never known life without one.

(30?!? Who said he could turn that age?

)

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I always used ours to cook hotdogs after school.

 

[N F C]

I always used ours to cook hotdogs after school.

Did you remember to stick them with a fork to avoid blow outs?

 

[LittleLakePhil]

No never heard that...I will remember that one...my cooking lesson for the day....what are you doing up?

this isn't the best picture in the world but these are wolves. The trail cam is a few miles from my house. Big pack I wouldn't want to run into them with out a gun on me.