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Er ... I think the snow flurries in Baltimore earlier may have been my fault.

You see, when it starts snowing, or when snow is forecast, folks have to dash to the grocery stores with panic in their eyes and buy all the bread, milk, and toilet paper. And maybe eggs. Well this afternoon I realized I was almost out of bread -- down to two heels and one normal slice, so instead of my planned grilled cheese sandwich, I made a veggieburger and used the heels as a bun. (I often save the heels for exactly that, actually.) So now I'm down to one slice of bread and I'm low on milk (still enough for tomorrow's coffee), but since I'm not completely out we only got flurries. I'll try to keep the kitchen better stocked to stave off snow -- but maybe if I deliberately run out of milk and eggs and bread on the 24th we'll get a white Christmas, huh? ;-)

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"You're not planning for a blizzard! You're planning for dysentery and French Toast!"

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Hee! (I have in fact heard someone announce an predicted snowstorm as "expecting a French toast emergency". Now if we can get a television weatherman to use the phrase, that'd be cool.)

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But carrying an umbrella to make it rain doesn't work, so I don't know if your December-24 sympathetic magic will work.

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Hey, if my sprinklingOld (http://www.mccormick.com/productdetail.cfm?ID=6216) Bay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Bay_Seasoning) on cottage cheese summons overdue salt trucks to salt or sand my street when it's icy [Did I just hear someone mutter the title of a West Wing episode in Latin? Nah, they must've been talking about something else] then why not pull a white Christmas out of my pantry? ;-)

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Generally if rain is forecast, but not actually present, and I carry an umbrella against the chance, it does not rain. So I carry an umbrella to keep showers in abeyance. I'm confused.

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That's a Murphy spell. Similar idea, opposite application.

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Glenn-power! :)

I know you like to cook. Do you also like to bake? i.e., would home-bake bread if ingredients were there?

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Baking kinda intimidates me a little (less than it used to, but still enough to count). But I had great fun with a bread machine when I lived with people who owned one!

Not sure how my arms would hold up to kneading these days. Never had to, with the bread machine, of course.

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Kneading? Next you're gonna tell me that sponges are really for washing dishes, not just wiping off the counters. ;) *ahem* Seriously, I have made no-knead bread, but am presently incapable of remembering where I got the recipe other than "off my f-list". Come to think of it, I don't recall kneading my sourdough, but I could be blocking out the memory to protect my delicate little brain. ;)

I completely spaced on the need to knead. I am a singularly lazy baker, so mainly make bread in a breadmaker. :) I also spaced on the need to rise the bread in a certain temperature range, which was my main reason for not making bread; I always wanted to make bread during the winter, but I refused to keep my house warm enough for the bread to rise properly. I could've used the oven, I know now, but I didn't. :)

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Um, you missed. 20" and counting (no joke) here in the microclimate.

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Hey, I figure any weather that happens farther away than I usually go to shop for groceries is probably somebody else's fault. So folks in College Park can blame me for stuff, but not folks in Timonium, nor anywhere in your province (until I manage to visit again). :-P

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Maybe you're just really powerful and really inaccurate? Ever thought of that?! *grin*

The across-the-street neighbour's poor little mulberry tree looks like a snowball on a stick.

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The more I think about it, the more frightening that thought is.

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Oh, don't do that, please? I have to drive up to Frederick Christmas morning. Probably with an infant in the car (unless Jason takes him up the night before).

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You forgot paper towels. Anything normally white.

I think the whackos around here subconciously follow the old high-school chemistry sophism, "Like dissolves like." So, when snow is forecast,t hey have to buy up all the white things in order to dissolve the snow.

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OK, I admit that "like dissolves like" isn't in itself a sophism. But the application of buying up white things fromt he grocery store in order to dissolve the snow certainly is.

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buy all the bread, milk, and toilet paper.

And all the kitty litter – even the stuff made out of compressed sawdust pellets, after the dirt/grit litter sells out. I can't imagine that soggy sawdust is any good for traction though....

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