Strawbales

There is new building construction happening all over my campus.  Large craters of dirt, huge cranes, burning tar, and metal beams every where I turn! The latest building started has a chain link fence surrounding the site (smart idea, so sleep-deprived students won’t stray into their doom.) Next to the fence is a berm of straw bales, I guess to serve as a bumper for the equipment operators. The string of bales is rather long. What would you think of, when you see so many bales lined up like that?

I thought, “A house!”

There has to be enough bales sitting out in the elements to build a sturdy, almost tornado-proof, home.

Now, with those piles of dirt…

You could build something like this!

With all that dirt, strawbales, left over brick, metal scraps, and other construction debris, they could build at least two good quality homes.

I hope you are illuminated as to the possibilities of overlooked items.

Broiled Bread

Homekeeper Blooper of the Week:

We were out of all baked goods by last evening so I rolled up my sleeves to bake some bread after dinner. All went smoothly until the dough was ready to go into the oven. It was pre-heated to 350 F and in went the two loaves. I set the timer for 15 minutes (about 2/3 of the way done, just to check the browning on top.) Well, when I took a peak at them at 12 minutes, the tops were looking like the bread was almost done! Huh?!? I took out one loaf and flipped it out onto my mitted hand. White and soft!

Catasterous!  [Disastrous + Catastrophy = Catasterous! You heard it here first, folks. ]

The oven was clicked over to ‘Broil’, not ‘Bake’. I quickly covered the tops with aluminum foil to stop the browning process and turned the oven back to ‘Bake’, hoping that would rescue my poor bread. Sure enough, as the oven heated from below, the bread bottoms got toasty and it baked all the way through! Sweet success!

Have any Homekeeper Bloopers you’d like to share, and how you rescued the situation?