Too late to think straight...soon it will be too early to think.

While walking (or more accurately, blowing,) about in the neighborhood we saw some Canada geese.
Nathan: "What do they eat, Mom?"
Mommy Roze: "Looks like they're eating grass right now. Maybe they eat bugs too."
Nathan: "Or maybe they eat other green things too?"
Mommy Roze: "I don't know, Nathan."
Pause.
Nathan: "Maybe we can look it up on the computer when we get home."
Mommy Roze: "If you remind me."

(We forgot.)


Philosophical thoughts of mine:

Some people learn, and some people never learn.

I hope to, eventually, belong to the first category. Unfortunately, I have not arrived there yet. Not even by a huge stretch of my imagination. I really feel that I am the only one who makes very similar, and often times exactly the same, mistakes SO frequently.

The most obvious mistake that comes to mind is the one of overestimating the ability or capacity of something. I love to double recipes so that I can freeze something and save myself the work next time I want something. Unfortunately, most times I do this, I have a bursting mixing bowl, a boiling over soup pan, or better yet, a ballooning bread maker.

Did you know there are very good reasons why manufactures only give, at most, two sizes of bread loaves for their machines? Yup, it probably is because the machine can't handle a double of the full size recipe. In fact, it probably can't even handle a double of a "dough cycle". I have seen by experience that anything doubled in the bread maker will, first of all, not mix properly. Secondly, even if it is not baking in the bread maker, it still requires space to rise, and a double recipe just doesn't fit. Thirdly, it is also hard on the mechanical workings of the machine. This bread maker may have a premature breakdown--just like my front loading washer.

I am glad I am not an appliance of mine!