Grandma Henke

It is a little disheartening to discover your upright freezer door is wide open after a day of 108 degrees and there is a pool of liquid slowly moving across the garage floor.    We are cooking a turkey, a spiral ham, 9 chicken breasts and some ribs that were at the very back and although they were thawed there was still a little ice around them.    We are trying to decide on a few New York steaks that are cold but no ice on them.

There is definitely a rule in nature that things do not stay frozen when exposed to 108 degrees for very long.  There is no getting around it.

There are a few other rules of nature I’ve learned over the years:

1.   Things in the oven don’t cook if you forget to turn it on

2.   Things you place on top of the car while you open the door don’t stay there until you reach your destination.

3.   Babies poop their pants when you forget to take a diaper with you

4.   Bath tubs flood over when you forget to turn off the water

5.   Some things (like eggs) will explode in the microwave

6.   If you wear a new shirt to Taco Time you will get hot sauce on it

7.   Oil starts on fire when you forget it is on the stove

8.   Forget to fill the car with gas and you will be stuck in the desert

9.   Yell at the kids and someone will be standing ready to knock at the door

10.  Expel gas in a store and it will stink.