8pm, December 20, 2008

I was in the bathroom in back of the house, the TV was blaring, and I thought I heard knocking on the door. Probably a deer hunter looking for a dog, I thought.
Or maybe I was imagining it.
Then whomever it was finally used the doorbell and I made it to the door to find the members of a local church standing out there in the dark. The pastor handed me a fruit basket, and they all began to sing--two carols to be exact.
I was nonplussed, but thanked them for coming.

It's a fine fruit basket, and there are nuts scattered in there. I don't have a nutcracker, so sitting at the table I tried pounding the nuts with a steak sauce bottle, then a jar of peanut butter to crack some of them. No go. Then I got a jar of Crosse and Blackwell lemon curd and using that, even cracked Brazil nuts.

I don't think the Crosse and Blackwell would pound in a nail, but it sure worked on a variety of nuts! susil