February 1, 2008--Crayon smoking

I just ate an apple! I haven't had an apple in a long time, not a fresh one by itself. I've had them in apple crisp and things, but I've just never really liked apples. The kids love them, though, and I bought them for lunch. Actually, we were supposed to have gone on a field trip today, but it snowed and we had to cancel. So I had planned sandwiches and apples for lunch, since they would be easy to pack. I don't like sandwiches or apples personally, and since we were home I took the last of the leftover Biscuit-Topped Italian Casserole that was in the fridge. It tasted like crayons. So when the kids brought me an apple, I was grateful to eat it to get the crayon taste out my mouth. See, last Monday (or it might have been Tuesday) I got the bright idea to take all the broken crayons and peel them and melt them in muffin tins to make multi-colored crayons. We'd done that a couple of times when I was a kid. It took a long time to peel the crayons, because we had a lot of them. I put them in the oven to melt, and then came in here to check forums. After awhile, Jay came in and told me they were melted, so I got up to take them out of the oven. He decided to beat me to it, and ran in there and started to take them out. Just as I walked into the kitchen, he was pulling out a pan and it tipped, spilling melted crayon all over the bottom of the oven, and all over the floor. I was not a happy camper. He spent the next hour scraping crayon off of everything. When I went to fix supper (the aforementioned Biscuit Topped Italian Casserole) the oven filled with a cloud of crayon smoke. I tried to let it burn off the best I could, but the food still came out with a distinctive flavor of crayons. It's kind of like hickory smoked, only using crayons instead. There were a lot of leftovers, and I've sent them with Erick every day this week. He'll be happy to know I ate the rest of them today and he won't have to eat them tomorrow. Maybe I'll pack him a sandwich. At least crayons are non-toxic.