Thursday: you would never believe how much smoke can come from a very small mince pie

 No pictures because: NO PHONE. 

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OK. So here I am, at home, thinking of a million things,

was in the tail end of my Agatha Christie book,

but also having fun looking up some physics things because

I like nerdy things and am researching lots of various disciplines for my novel. 

So I was having tea and decided to have a minced pie from my favourite tea place

that I froze back in 2022 before Every Thing That Happened, 

Happened. 

I was also using the microwave for a timer for my tea that was steeping in my teapot.

Somehow I got confused with 'time cook' and 'power level' and the next thing I knew,

I was reading at my computer,

was the smoke dectectors all went off at once, 

BEEP BEEP BEEP and I saw SMOKE everywhere suddenly on the ceiling

and the microwave was beeping from the timer

and I opened it to smoke billowing out and my little tiny mince pie

was on FIRE.  There was a flame of something!

I grabbed a glass of water, swooshed it on top and smoke was still everwhere

and I opened windows, the whole living space was smokey

and turned the air purifier on high 

and other than the fact that the raisins in the mince pie were huge 

and the pie was about 4x the 

normal height, you could see nothing wrong, 

other than it being in a puddle of water in the bowl.

So THAT was a bit STRESSFUL!!!

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I felt really stupid too, having no idea what I did wrong.

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I figured it out, I think -- 

my guess is somehow I put 730 minutes instead of doing what I thought I was doing

which was power level 7 for 30 seconds forgetting that on this 

microwave time cook is first. 

I think I got confused because the timer was also on?

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So later, windows still open, I went out to eat and then back 

and closed windows at Husband's request

and then ate some chicken soup

and then went to my local library.

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Where I kept reading up on Physics and having lots of fun with the VOCAB. 

I was laughing all the way home, but, because it's research for my 

writing project, I am keeping it strictly to myself! 

Husband not included of course, I chatted him about it quite quickly.

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Well, if all goes well my new phone comes MONDAY.

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Meanwhile I am reading books and my Husbnad is soon to be home and I better 

look at dishes... 

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and clean the table, I am such a clutter-bug it's ridiculous... 

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It STILL smells smoky in here. 

Thank God that I had my Husband's office room, our chapel 

and bedroom doors closed so that the

smell is confined to the living/dining/kitchen 

AKA the part of the house I am in the most.

Well, thank God it was not worse!

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And that's my story for today...