Comment #8

eddessaknight — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:50:34 GMT

Stay focused Sometimes too many minds

Comment #7

Vergie6 — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:02:24 GMT

second! But then again I didn't have to hold a fork in one hand to pierce a potato & my thumb with either. It's ironic the smoke alarm battery went off last night with it's chirp chirp so got up in the middle of the night and climbed on a ladder and changed it...thank goodness it worked one more time for me before going out...thank you Jesus

Comment #6

lakerben — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 03:57:08 GMT

That's why I go to the buffet. I'm accident prone.

Comment #5

mikeintexas — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 01:19:29 GMT

Sheesh, Vergie....be careful!

Comment #4

MADDOG10 — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 15:29:59 GMT

Good Lord Girl, I'll bet you'll be thinking overtime for a while. Glad you're OK though.

Comment #3

sully16 — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:11:22 GMT

Glad to hear you are okay, bowl of cereal is my go to supper.

Comment #2

hearsetrax — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:08:01 GMT

now you know why I don't like to cook, hope your nerves will manage to reset themselves soon

Comment #1

konane — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:57:19 GMT

Glad to hear all is ok with no major damage to anything. It's easy to become distracted especially when doing routine things then something out of the ordinary happens.

Original Blog Entry: Almost caught my home on fire!

Vergie6 — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:57:40 GMT

Late yesterday afternoon around 4:30 pm I was going to make a sandwich for an early supper...some call it

dinner...anyway I was using some greek pita bread for a wrap and decided I wanted to toast the bread

first so put it in the oven and turned on the broiler.

THEN I was thinking a baked potato would be good with it so got out a potato and got a fork and held the potato in my left hand down on the kitchen counter and a fork in the right hand and slammed down the fork in what I thought was the potato so it would bake quicker in the microwave...well I missed some of the potato and a prong slammed into my left thumb...SO now all this time the bread is toasting so I go in the bathroom and fixed it up then realized I forgot to pour peroxide on it so took off the band-aid an poured it on then put the antibiotic cream on and started back towards the kitchen.

AND THEN all of a sudden the smoke alarm started screaming to the top of it's lungs (if it has lungs)...long story short the bread was burning big time so I did have sense enough to cut off the oven and wait a minute before I opened the door but when I did the bread was on fire but I picked up the pan with a cloth and put it in the sink and turned on the water and it smelled really strong...can still smell it some this morning.

After it cooled a little I took it out on the balcony and sat it down...ended up later throwing the pan away cause it was burnt so bad I could not scrape it clean.

If it was not for that smoke alarm my apt would have caught on fire for sure because when I got distracted by putting the fork in my thumb I completed forgot the bread was in the oven.

I got out a fan and put it in the kitchen and an air-cleaning machine sprayed air cleaner but the smell would not go completely away...it was raining a little but I opened the door and all of the windows too.

Telling you all about this so you will be careful while you're cooking because it's so easy to get distracted...usually I stay right by the stove when I'm toasting bread but I was distracted when I slammed down the fork in my thumb and missed part of the potato.

...realized later I could have heated the bread in the microwave for a minute and it would have been just as good and much safer since I had the accident with the fork!...live and learn!

After I calmed down I did make the sandwich and baked the potato but I have a big bandage on my thumb...it did not bleed all that much, more bruised than anything else....told my neighbor about it and she wanted me to

make sure I had a tetanus shot so will call the dr. this morning to see for sure...think I have had one.

Betcha I don't put any more fork holes in a potato when I toasting bread in the oven ever again...oh after all of that I was bound and determined to bake the potato to have with my sandwich and I did the meal was good but my nerves weren't.

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