A New Day

When I had to work 40 hour weeks all the time - Monday was a sad "back to it" kind of day.  Now that I only work part time then my days off are always this marvelous gift with all its possible surprises and miracles just waiting to happen to me.

I have been very happy to notice lately that the old cliche՜, "learn something new every day" is actually true.  I really do learn something new every day.  I get very excited over them even when they are - well others would say - "stupid" - but I jump up and down and say wow I never knew that.

Here is a great illustration - I love brown butter which means you put a pad of butter in your skillet and have to wait for it to brown.  Now if you walk away or forget you have placed that pad of butter in the skillet it will get very smoky and you will hear a screeching loud sound that almost breaks your ear drum.  Even when you stand up on a chair and push the center in it will NOT stop.  It just keeps screeching on and on and on.  It eventually stops after you open the front door and wave it back and forth thus dissipating the billows of smoke.

I thought those things were to protect us when a fire broke out on the stove or because of a candle falling over or whatever.  When I asked my friend about exchanging it for one that would not do that just because of smoke and no flames involved.  He very kindly said, "Annalou, it is called a "SMOKE" detector because it detects smoke.  It is not going off until there is no more smoke."

I am honestly telling you I learned something new.  For me I always thought it would be flames not smoke that set it off.  I promised my daughter I would NOT wander away from the kitchen when I put anything on the stove.  I've only broken my promise once so far.  I'm praying I won't again.

Getting older can be fun and knowing my mind is still interested it growing makes it a happy time too.