Oh My! By Shar Ann Packard
Nothing NEW Here On The Farm!
A few weeks ago, this “thing” started happening at our house...a chain of events that led to me realizing change is not a good thing here on the farm! It all began when John decided for several nights in a row to place his glass on his stand while watching TV. When he sat it down it would tip and spill everywhere...this is not a little glass. We are talking about a huge tea glass...it could hold a liter of pop, I am sure. I found myself on my hands and knees, with several bath towels trying to clean up this ice tea mess at 10:30 pm. He was moving out his chair, moving the stand, and also trying to save all his “favorite” auction and farm papers from the tea-soaked towels I am throwing away as I clean. He was so happy with himself because unlike his last spill, most of this one went into the little wastebasket we have between the chairs. To this I was to be happy? He later tells me that the reason why he is spilling everything is because of the new “things” I put on the stand. They are too thick, and his glass doesn’t set on them right. Well, I thought they were so nice, and they soaked up the moisture and also saved the stand from water rings. On a good note, though, they did soak up a lot of tea when he spilled it! I was making lunch the other day, and I was so proud of myself as I remembered to get the cucumber salad I had made out of the refrigerator. As I was grabbing it out it tipped a little bit. Wow, I was surprised that the top was not on it. It was heavy enough that as it tipped over, half of it went everywhere...I mean everywhere. It was on the top shelf. It had spilled into every drawer, shelf, and every nook and cranny throughout the whole fridge. Then, as it spilled, I was trying to stop it, and it spilled all over the floor and under the fridge. I had to have John pull out the fridge so I could mop the floor under it. I am telling you it took forever to get it all cleaned up. The reason the lid was not on tight? John tells me that the new bowls I bought were hard to place the lids on. He said the old ones “pop” right on, and you don’t have to “burp” the dang things, and he just set it back in there instead of fighting it. Then, today he was heating his lunch up in these new glass microwave dishes I was so pleased with. When I got them, I was thinking
