Where there is smoke there is Jo?

Tucson
Ugh...what a day I have had! Especially in the kitchen. My kitchen and I are not on speaking terms right now! First of all I have dropped just about everything I have picked up today...and of course it lands with a thud, splat on the kitchen floor. Okay, so I am having a klutzy day...I can live with that. But then things got serious. My friend Jude had made some muffins a few days ago and shared some with us...and they were soooooo good, so of course I asked for the recipe. So today I decided to bake some...of course, having a klutzy day I spilled the flour, dropped an egg, etc. FInally got everything in the bowl that I needed and mixed them up, into the muffin tins and into the oven. About 15 minutes later I say to myself, "Whats that smell, smells like burnt toast"...oh crap, muffins! Yup, they were a little burnt...then I discovered I had set the oven to 450 instead of 350! So I adjusted the heat and put the next batch in...and they didn't exactly turn out right either...they taste good, but I couldn't get them out of the %^&*# muffin pan. Shoulda' stopped there. Got out of the kitchen...and stayed out. But, oh no, I had to start dinner, which was relatively simple tonight...French Dip Sandwiches...all I had to do was heat the au jus and toast the bread. This is where the trouble began. I put the bread in the broiler to toast...and forgot all about it until black smoke began rolling out of my oven. OR CRAP! I pulled the bread out and dumped it in the sink and smoke filled, I mean FILLED the house...causing the smoke detector to go off...both of them. All the doors were already open and fans were going. Oh oh...here comes the Fire Department...roaring up the hill. Double Crap! Damn alarm system is monitored and it works! So I proceed to go out to "greet" the firemen, which, just my luck, were the same ones that came when my brother fell a few weeks ago. The one guy gets out of the truck and says..."Hey,I know you!" Bad sign folks when the firemen recognize you!!! I had to tell them that I had burnt the bread and there was really no fire for them to play with. Just me being totally mortified!!!!!!!!!!!!! AL and Jerry in the mean time are getting a big laugh out of this--HAHA~ Jerry said the oven probably will swear out a restraining order on me~ HAHAH...aren't they funny.


Some of you are probably asking "Who is Jerry?" Jerry is AL's middle son and he is here for a two week visit and we are really enjoying him. I think he is having a good time as well. He has already walked over the ridge to the next ridge, into our little town of Catalina and up and down our hills...he is a true mountain goat! ANd Beau is loving having him here...Schuster, not so much. For what ever reason, it takes Schuster a little while to warm up to Jerry, but I noticed tonight he was sitting next to Jerry getting petted...so all must be well. We will be going up to the Grand Canyon later this week for 3 days and all three of us are looking forward to the trip. If I can keep AL well long enough that is.

Super Bowl Sunday didn't turn out exactly like we had hoped. Oh our crowd at the house was fun...lots of yelling and cheering, we just didn't like the way the game ended. And no, we didn't get the porn show that some people in Tucson got at the end. Apparently Comcast had an "oops" here and for about 30 seconds some porn was shown instead of the game. And not a wardrobe malfunction either..I guess it was real hard core porn!

Our weather has been glorious...sunny and warm. Today it was 76...yesterday 74, Saturday 72, can you see a trend here? And I am lovin' it.

Okay, enough...my favorite show Medium is about to come on, so until next time.........