Last night I woke up around 3 AM. I had to use the facilities and in the process woke up enough to know that I was not going back to sleep anytime soon. So I did what I always do when this happens; I went to the TV room and set down to curl up to PBS.
I reached over to grab my electric throw, like I always do, when something huge sloshed (yes, sloshed) out of the basket and plopped onto the floor. What the heck was that!
It was a giant Pyrex bowl of yogurt. Like I mean, the biggest one in that pack of 3 we all got for wedding presents and it was in fact, FULL of warm yogurt.
Of course it was.
See JaDee has had this ongoing quest to make homemade yogurt. He has tried this several times in our married life. All have failed. This latest attempt involved wrapping the bowl in my electric blanket on the Medium setting for a few hours. Not anticipating that his snoring and my peeing would interrupt his yogurt making process.
Fortunately for him, the bowl was tightly wrapped in Saran Wrap (maybe I should pitch this idea to them as a commercial: you know the common household scene where you wake up in the night and overturn a bowl of yogurt cooking in your electric blanket, but certain mess was saved by the SARAN WRAP!).
I laughed and then thought of a few of the other ridiculous things I have done lately.
First: I vacuumed my back lawn. Olivia took bucket after bucket of sand the other day out of her sandbox and dumped it at the bottom of our back steps (yes our snow has melted and we can see it again. Can't see the bush in the front yard yet, there is one stubborn pile hanging on, but the turtle sandbox has emerged). Even after we shoveled most of it back to the sandbox we kept tracking sand in the house. So I took out the shop vac and vacuumed the grass.
Second, I scooped up 3 huge piles of moose poop from our yard. I know most of you have never done that, therefore it is ridiculous to think that I, at anytime in my life, ever envisioned myself doing it either.
Third, I started shoveling the snow off my lawn and into the street. Isn't it usually the other way around? I really want to see that stuff all melted, and when I saw my neighbor do it I thought I too, would help mother nature along.
What have you done lately?
Thursday, May 6, 2010
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You crack me up;) I mop my patio in the summer. I hate having dirty dog prints all over it, and I dry my sheets twice....yep, everytime, talk about wasting electricity.
Oh...my sister-in-law has the best homemade yogart recipe. She has taught classes in her stake on how to make it, so if you (or JaDee) wants the recipe let me know.
I guess I never thought about how to make yogurt.....especially not cooking it in an electric blanket...hmmmm....You funny Alaska people. Is there a yogurt shortage there? Haha!
JaDee is always tryin to do something crazy in the kitchen. Do you guys consume a lot of yogurt or something? I am always wary of homemade things like that. I'm afraid I'll end up food poisoned because I didn't make it right. I would have been so mad if yogurt dumped all over at 3am!!
Yogurt? That is wierd. We just had a YW activity cleaning up around the church grounds and they girls for some twisted reason got into a little spiff about who could pick up the moose poop...that is so gross!
I made homemade yogurt in Microbiology in college. Tell JaDee to give me a ring and I'll tell him how it's done. Where did he find the cultures? It's supposed to start with bacteria. Moose poop? Love it!
Oh, thanks for the laugh. And if you want I have a successful yogurt recipe, no fail. Email me if you want it.
My sibs and I used to make fun of my mom when she would tell one of us to go "vacuum the lawn" when she meant "mow the lawn". But you have actually vacuumed the lawn! What next?
Scooping moose poop. We could shorten that to "scoomoopooping".
LOL
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