Well, I'm finally joining the blog-o-sphere. I've been inspired by my daughters and my sisters and when I told my daughter Katie about my "mis-hap" from yesterday, she said it would make a great first post on my blog. (she's been after me to get blogging and debit-carding for quite some time now!) So, I figured if I had a good place to start, I would get going, at least with the blogging.

Which brings me to yesterday...
many of you know we have been remodeling our basement, which in turn makes for a mess in the entire house. The cans in my food pantry were collecting a layer of dust and I had noticed about 10 half eaten bags of miscellaneous chips/pretzels/fritos that no one would eat, I decided it was that time again. Time to clean the pantry. A dreaded job, but one that is very rewarding in the end. As I was going through the things on one shelf, I came across a large box of instant mashed potatoes. It had been opened for a long time, maybe even years. There was about one cup of flakes left in the bottom of the box. I thought I would just dump the old flakes and, being the responsible recycler that I am, I would break down the box and put it in the recycle bin. The problem came when I was trying to decide where to dump the flakes. In the wastebasket or in the garbage disposal. Well, let me tell you, I made the wrong choice. I dumped them in the disposal, and as you can imagine, when I ran the water to wash them down, they expanded at least 10 fold and then clogged up my entire kitchen drain system. When I tried to drain the water, I had watered down mashed potatoes all over the kitchen floor and all over my wool kitchen rug. What a mess! I panicked because we had just repaired and painted the ceiling in the basement below from a previous leak in the kitchen. Well, to make a long story short, my brother came to fix the problem and it was more than his equipment could handle. I needed the "big" machine! A different service man came from Godwin and was finally able to clear up the problem and I had a mess to clean up. My minimal task of cleaning the pantry, became a day long mess! So,take it from me, when in doubt, throw it out in the garbage pail, not the garbage disposal.

Anyway, this is my first blog post. I did it!! Aren't you proud? Maybe someday I'll even use a debit card!