Tolentreasures

Before you think I have some major revelation into nagging, I am just telling you one incident. I have had lots, but this one could have had some scary consequences. My MIL has been wanting new carpet for her bathroom. She has been "wanting" it for awhile. Hers was "powdery." Eww. Having lived in a house where the carpet was burned in the living room from where the previous owner had started his Harley, (another story, another time ) I wasn't totally sympathetic to "powdery." Plus, it's a tiny little bathroom and I could not imagine what they would charge to come out here in the sticks to do a tiny, little, powdery bathroom. So, JWS and I tried to talk her into tile. We lay tile, we have all the tools, and furthermore.... "Powdery" can be easily cleaned off of tiles. You would have thought that we suggested making the floor a bed of nails or hot coals...

In my annual quest to diet, or as JWS would say, "Change your eating habits." I call it diet because let's face it, he would be able to live the rest of his life without cake, cookies, pie, doughnuts or candy and be just fine with that. I, on the other hand will get the shakes, go through withdrawal and need a chocolate fix by, oh let's say, January 4 Th , because yesterday I broke down and had one little piece of dark chocolate. But back to the cream of wheat. In order to change things up a little from the morning diet of Eggs with Broccoli Eggs with Chicken Eggs with Peppers Eggs with Onions Seeing a trend here? I decided yesterday that Cream of Wheat sounded good. Really, three cream filled Krispy Kremes sounded good, but thank goodness the closest available Krispy Kreme is twenty miles away! So I pull out the cute little bag of Farina from the Amish Bent and Dent store. How cheap can you actually eat? The price was eighty cents. I look at the directions and s...