Well, Christmas day was a success overall but the dinner was a failure. I overcooked the turkey and it was way too dry but that was nothing compared to the explosion.

I had the mashed potatoes made, the peas were cooked and sitting on their respective burners on our electric stove. I was making the gravy. I set the roasting pan on the burner and turned it on, added the flour and water, and stirred. Unfortunately I had turned on the wrong burner. We have, uh, had a casserole dish made of heavy glass. It was sitting on the stove because there was no other place to put it. I looked down to see the burner glowing through the dark glass. I turned it off to let it cool. I turned on the correct burner and began to stir the gravy. I went to the cupboard on the other side of the room to get a bowl for the gravy and BANG the casserole dish exploded into glass slivers that covered the stove top. The food there was covered in glass. Dinner was ruined.

Sigh. We threw out the food and cleaned up the mess. Wakana and I cooked up more mashed potatoes and peas and we had our dinner but I was unhappy with it. Sigh. Still Christmas was great, we had a wonderful day. We called home and heard of their fun times and talked to the family and then settled in and enjoyed our time at home, alone. Wakana worked on her carving, she has some mahogany but she쳌fs not happy with it for carving. The wood is too long grained and difficult to carve a smooth surface.

Yesterday I finally got the steering wheel off the van and I got down toe the ignition switch housing. And I am stuck again. I though that it would be easy once I got there but it is not. But then, nothing ever is.