Finally (Photo) Friday!! What's your plan?

Sounds like a good weekend and I'm sure the kids will be happy to be back with you!!

Your answer to QOTD reminds me of the time Ron and I were early in our relationship. I bought my first house, and we were refurbishing. I finally got in all of my appliances, and we would head there after work and get started. We didn't move in right away knowing it would be easier if we got it done before we moved everything in. I finally got my kitchen appliances and I put frozen pizzas in the freezer so that we would not have to stop and go get dinner. I cooked a Tombstone pizza. When I pulled it out of the oven I could not cut it. Here they have cardboard on the bottom you needed to remove. Ron at the time thought wow she can't even cook a frozen pizza. Little did he know Pizza for me started with warm water and yeast. I never cooked a frozen pizza again.

I had a roommate that caught the oven on fire the night before we moved in because of the cardboard on the pizza. We knew she couldn't/shouldn't cook so for the dinner we made for everyone they helped us move in, we assigned her to make a salad. She caught the oven on fire toasting the almonds for her salad...when we realized her reaction to the fire was to just run out of the house, she was never allowed to cook unattended the three years we lived together.

Some people shouldn't be allowed to cook - reheat.

There was a lady (in her late 50s) that worked for us for a few months. It was someone's birthday and I bought pies for the whole office because that what he wanted.

I asked her to set up the conference room for the birthday celebration and reheat the pies in the oven (to crisp up the flaky tops and bottoms). Since she didn't know how to operate the simple oven we had, he placed the 3 pies in the microwave. With the metal/aluminum shells they were in. One of top of the other. When that caught on fire inside the microwave, she left the kitchen and closed the kitchen doors because it was sparkling and making noise. Yeap. Really.

The smell and noise from behind closed doors attracted someone's attention. It's a miracle she didn't burn the whole building. We had to replace the microwave and the cabinets above and besides the microwave.

She was let go right after we dealt with the fire. Her excuse " nobody told her you can't put metal in a microwave " (she had one at home) and she didn't know how to operate our "cheap" oven. So it was the office fault, not hers.

She applied for unemployment and was denied (she only had 2 months continued work history in the last 5 years). She tried to sue us for wrongful termination, but she couldn't find a lawyer who would take her case for free- or for proceeds from winning the law suit (people who knew her in RL told me about that later on).

I had some really special people in the office...but she was special...

I don't know if any of you have Tabletalk Pies where you are. They're made locally, and have been around for generations. They are small, sort of individual serving. They have thin carboard underneath. I worked with a guy who ate the cardboard with the pie, more often than not.

I have seen those in the store but never tried one...if I ever do, I will look for and remove the cardboard!

Is that baby Fawkes?

Good morning all. It's our last day in Sandusky. We're going to Cleveland to catch a ballgame tonight, and drive from there back home Saturday, with a stop halfway in Syracuse for another game. We miss the cats.

QOTD: I have a favorite cake recipe. It has a cup of buttermilk, a cup of coffee, and a half cup of vegetable oil in it. It's a wonderful and moist chocolate cake. But it is very liquid when it goes in the oven. Once, it was extra liquid, because I forgot to put the flour in, and popped it in the oven anyway. It was . . . Different. These days I could market it as gluten free.

I liked geometry, and still use it, often. I like algebra too. I haven't used trig in eons. And I was horrible at calculus.

Here are a couple of photos from our stop at the Amish tool shop in Millersburg the other day.

I would like a baby Fawkes! Safe drive and I hope the ballgame is warmer and dryer than the other one!

I'm jealous of your road trip and stadium tour. Can we get your impressions of the different parks? Were you like a pig in **** at the Amish tool shop?

At Progressive Field, can you remind an Indians' fan about the lead they blew in the 2016 World Series to the Cubs?

I'll give a stadium review after the next couple.

I'll tease Indians fans about 2016, after I pull their chain about 99.