Friday the 13th was a day late. This morning, I was trying to hard boil some eggs in the microwave, something I have done without incident in two previous ovens over fifteen years. This oven seems to be much hotter . One minute thirty seconds before the cycle was done, all six eggs exploded simultaneously, blowing the oven door open, and spewing hard boiled egg pieces, tiny shell fragment, and boiling water all over the table and floor. Cleaning up the mess from my power chair took the entire morning, leaving no time at all for research. Therefore, this is my only article today. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:01 (average 4:51). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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5:14 Very attractive.
From Sojourners:
A Hymn for Children That Need Rescuing
By Carolyn Winfrey Gillette 7-11-2018
When we watch the rescue of children or youth,
O God of great mercy, may we see your truth—
That children are precious and you love each one.
They’re made in your image — each daughter, each son.
When we watch as children who crossed to this land
Are locked in detention as part of some plan,
May we be reminded that you love them, too;
They’re made in your image; they’re precious to you.
When we watch the little ones, hungry and poor,
Who wait as our great nation closes the door,
May we be reminded that as we treat them,
We’re looking at Jesus and so treating him.
O God, your Son taught us, and we know it’s true,
That each single person is precious to you.
O Lord, may we know it’s our mission today
To welcome the children — not turn them away.
To the tune of MUELLER 11.11.11.11 (“Away in a Manger”)
“Away in a Manger” has three tunes. “Mueller” is the one that starts on a high note and goes doen an octave in steps over the first line.
From CREDO: Paul Ryan’s Chevy Suburban was trashed and eaten by a family of woodchucks. Go woodchucks! Hope none of it hurt your tummies.
If I had know last December that tonight, at the Santa Fe Opera, before (and during) the opera (“Doctor Atomic”), the Tesuque, Santa Clara, and San Ildefonso Pueblos would be offering sacred corn dances as a gift for healing, I might well be there tonight instead of here. But, since it was only announced four days ago, I won’t be able to make it.
Cartoon – I don’t remember – if indeed I ever knew – what the German word for “party” is ,,, but having only one certainly runs counter to the very meaning ot the English word. A part is NOT the whole. By definition.
So sorry about your eggs, but glad you didn’t get hurt. The meme is disturbing because it reflects the thoughts of many right wingers in our country today.
OMG! So relieved that you weren’t hurt! Thank God!! Sorry that you had to clean it all up, which is very difficult being disabled. Take good care, TC.
Cartoon: Yep. It’s begun here too, outlawing basic human rights, and subverting our democracy!
Get your rest, TC.
Joanne, thank You! for your Sojourner’s Hymn, and the Credo article.
People who work with hymns a lot work with the names of tunes separately from the hymns – because many are interchangeable – and it’s so handy for a choir director if new words go with an old tune because they can be learned very fast. I had not known there was a tune named “Mueller,” and I got such a kick out of Carolyn choosing it for this hymn at this time. BTW, like the last one, this is copyrighted, but free to churches and faith groups for their use.
After THAT Fuhrer killed off his opposition whenever it was convenient, he consolidated his power by outlawing any other political organization, and the really proceeded to bring his country into great…infamy!
It has begun here, and the fools are flying more flags on my street than I’ve seen in any of the several years I’ve been here! Even this soon after the 4th of July!
On the other hand…Happy Bastille Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The problem is that the microwave not only heats the water ( which warms up to 212F and stays there), but it also directly heats the egg which then can get much hotter than the water and expand enough to forceable burst the eggshell, as you dramatically found out.
You need a dog. A dog would have cleaned it up all by itself. They love eggs. ?
Oh, dear … sorry to learn you fried your microwave in that eggs-plosion this morning.
What an eggs-eptionally bad way to start your day. That’s eggs-actly the kind of eggs-itement we seniors can do without. But how eggs-tremely lucky that at least you weren’t injured.
I hope you didn’t shell out a lot of money for the microwave. It’s no longer one of those eggs-travagant kitchen luxuries.
But there are certainly better ways to get one’s eggs-ercise than cleaning up eggs-ploded hard-boiled egg remnants.
A word of advice: Never egg-nore the instruction manuals that come with new appliances – or you’ll end up with egg all over your face … errr … place.
(You didn’t really think omelletin an eggs-traordinary opportunity for a pun fest like this go by, did you? I confess they may not be as eggs-ellent as I would like, but I had to scramble to whisk together as many as I could on such short notice since I was gone most of the day. I’m just happy it sounds like you’ve been able to keep your sunny-side up.)
That’s eggs-actly what I was thinking. Eggs-cellent job!
Scheeesch!! You guys are just too eggsplicit!
Did not have time to comment earlier but your post is eggscellent!!! So much so that I borrowed 2 words for my post! I very much appreciate humour by parsing words and meanings. Drove my staff nuts. So, thank you for your word delight!
DANG TC!!!
Wish one of us lived closer to clean up the horrid mess for you! ?
Glad you weren’t close to it when it happened!
Spray vinegar where the eggs landed, if the smell persists!
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Sorry about the eggsplosion, and the mess it made, TomCat. Do you also need to buy a new microwave? Do remember that each new regeneration goes up in strength a bit more, so start cooking the eggs at half strength to begin with and avoid cleaning again.
Hitler didn’t come to power from one day to another, but in gradual steps, much like we see taken in the US thee days. From preferring the Nazi Partei to die Kommunistishe Partei and then letting Kanzler Hitler rule by decree were some of the many mistakes Hitler coaxed the Germans into. Don’t make the same mistakes with Drumpf and the GOP!
Puzzle — 4:17 My guess is that this is on the Mediterranean Sea, or maybe the Aegean Sea. I can feel the sea breeze even now.
Cartoon — I am not convinced that Drumpf can play the long game like Hitler did, but he has obedient Republicans who are capable of playing the long game, especially if it means continued power and greed!
You have to love microwave ovens, but they can have a mind of their own! Did you remember to prick the egg shell? That usually prevents them from eggsploding which is truly eggasperating. I take it that the microwave survived? . . . since you said the door was blown open not off. I am very glad that you weren’t hurt. The trouble with eggs in the micro is that once it is off, if you find they aren’t quite done, you can’t add more cooking time. Apparently they become like rubber, at least according to the instructions I had. I certainly feel your pain on the clean up. I once had a glass bottle of diet coke freeze and explode in my car when I lived up north. I had glass and coke everywhere, literally. It took hours and I still didn’t get it all.
Thanks and hugs to all. Both the oven and I are fine.
Very glad to hear it. (My experience is not only that different ovens with the same rating can heat differently, but that any given oven can also change over time.)
This one is almost new. I’ll still learning its quirks.
Tomcat, don’t give the Republicans any ideas!