It Rained Again but I love the beauty it creates
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
When is a bottle really empty?
This is different from what I usually post but thought that I would share this funny little story.
When is the bottle really empty?
My parents
grew up being taught how to save in every possible way; washing plastic bags
and reusing them; adding oatmeal to hamburger to make it go further; using a
spatula to clean out the last ruminants of a peanut butter jar and the list
goes on. Most of these traits/habits got passed on to my generation. It amazes
me today, the things that get thrown out that are perfectly usable or not
completely used up. (Like a peanut butter jar with 2 tablespoons of peanut butter
still in it)
Well
what inspired me to write this little blurb was an unexpected visit from our
son today. He was in town and stopped by to see if we might feed him supper. We
pulled some chicken and some sausages out of the freezer and put them on the BBQ;
made a salad and voila, supper! We had an, almost
empty ketchup bottle on the table which my son used and exclaimed how it was
empty. He took the cap off and used some of the ruminants in the bottle and
then sat the bottle down. Howard then asked for the ketchup, and I passed it to
him. Since, of course, he is of my generation, he proceeded to shake the rest
of the ketchup down to the opening of the bottle. What we did not realize is
that our son had not put the cover back on tight.( Apparently he did tell me but I did not hear him). Well the cover
flew off and the ketchup ended up on the dining room window; on Howard’s neck;
on the back of his chair; on the valance on the window; and on our sons back
pack and on the floor. Perfectly good ketchup gone to waste! Lol So my question
remains: “When is a bottle really empty?” For being an empty bottle it
certainly did a good job of making a bit of a mess! And as I write this the
‘almost empty bottle’ is turned upside on top of the new ketchup bottle,
getting out those last few ruminants! Charles thought that it was almost as
funny as a cucumber on the forehead, but that’s a story for another time!
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Beautiful Butterflies
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