Photoessay #514 - Friendship Bread Disaster

(especially to Laura)

We woke up this morning to a friendship bread disaster. Extreme closeup on the dining room floor. Dennis thinks it might have exploded and propeled itself off the counter. From the splotch on the molding, he might be right.

if I had my dog, she would have cleaned this up (and barfed later)

we had something similar involving a goldfish some years ago. The fish, however completely disappeared. OFF THE SAME COUNTER! hmmm could be a conspiracy

We managed to salvage the part inside the bag.

Exposition: My friend Laura gave this bag of Amish Bread starter last weekend. You're supposed to follow these instructions adding ingredients and mushing the bag over 10 days. Then you're supposed to bake it and somehow you give some to somebody else. I still didn't quite get it. But it bubbles inside the bag in satisfying ways.

Until the friendship bread disaster this morning. Maybe some of it will still work?

Besides the Mysterious Goldfish Disappearance, this reminds me of other disasters. Including the Teriyaki Sauce Disaster. Do you know that if you drop a 1/2 gallon of Teriyaki Sauce (which you possibly purchased from Costco very recently) on the ground at just the right angle, the top will fly off and 1/2 gallon of Teriyaki sauce will shoot out of the jug like a geyser covering everything (including you) with Teriyaki Sauce. It's true. Ask me how I know.

We were in the midst of the Teriyaki Sauce Disaster when Susanna burst through the door from high school softball practice. The infield was a sea of mud from a recent storm. The softball players decided to slide around in the mud. Susanna likes NOTHING MORE that participating in mud hijinks. As you might imagine, she was proudly completely covered by mud. Dennis and I, were completely involved with the Teriyaki Sauce Disaster and really were not too impressed with her mud. Take a number sister in the huge mess department.