This is trite, but where does the time go? Here I am trying to post something every day, and it just gets away from me.

In case you didn't notice, this is Friday the 13th, and I can vouch for it because one of my pies overflowed into the oven. I just hate that because the smoke makes the pie crusts taste burnt. I had to keep baking everything, so dumped salt on the overflow on the oven bottom and that helped some until I could cool the oven down and clean it.

I have some metal pie moats to catch the pie drips. A pie moat is a round, shallow pan with a hole in the middle, in case you don't know. But I had a little scrap cherry pie and didn't think of it bubbling over, and of course it did.

My oven used to be self-cleaning, but it broke, so I'm waiting for the stove to break some more before I buy a new one. Meanwhile, I'm very careful to not let drips get out of hand.

If all that happens to me is a dirty oven, I got off easy as far as bad luck goes.