Monday, March 10, 2014

          Glade went to the fitness center this morning and then studied his lesson for FHE tonight.  I made some charts as handouts for him and prepared dinner.  He made me prepare two scriptures to give in Spanish and I tried not to be grumpy. J  It just makes me self-conscious since everyone else either has a handle on the language or it is their native language. 

In the beginning couples were to provide “refreshments” at the end of the lesson.  However, over time those refreshments have evolved into being a whole meal.  No one has been willing to scale back a little so we were right there making a whole dinner.  I fixed haystacks and served them with sliced almonds, grated cheese, broken green onion Pringles, and peas and carrots.  I mixed the chicken with cream of chicken soup and we had it all over brown rice.  It all turned out great and seemed to make a hit. 

Glade ordered cinnamon rolls from our bakery that were delivered mid-meeting, warm, and smelling Heavenly!  We opened our gallon size can of mandarin oranges and served them with the rolls.

I was late getting there since there was another incident with the stove.  Long story about figuring out the rice, but the short story is that the knobs on the stove that turn on the burners are reversed from ours at home and from every other stove I have ever used.  We mix them up all the time.  Well, I keep strips of foil over the stove top to keep crumbs and food from getting into the burners and to keep the clean up to a minimum.  There is very little counter space and working over the stove is common.  The front half of the foil was folded back over the back burner, the large kettle of water placed on the exposed burner, and the stove turned on.  I worked on other things while waiting for the water to boil.  Glade walked through the kitchen and I asked him to see if the water was boiling.  He said, “Not yet, but just about.”  Later when I went to check, the foil over the back burner was glowing red and starting to flame!  The wrong burner was turned on again and the stove nearly went up in flames!!  The water for the rice was still cool.  That did not save on the clean up time at all!  Oh, well.  It is all taken care of now, except that we will have to buy a new drip pan for the burner.

I hope you all had a fabulous FHE!  Good night!  Love to all--