I have my talents, but some of the
job description of homemaker is a bit out of my
skill set.
Here are
three homemaking-related questions that have come up over the last 12 hours:
1.
What are these greenish-blue crystals that appear in Rhett’s tub?
The crystals magically appear while the tub is being filled. There are no toys or washcloths in the tub. It doesn’t happen to any of the other tubs in the house. Randomly they don’t appear, but most the time they are there.
2.
How do I ask for this light bulb? Should I take the picture to the store?
Our main bathroom downstairs light has been burned out for a few days. The boys refuse to pee in the dark. Last night I got several replacement light bulbs, the ladder, un-screwed the 3 bolts that held the heavy glass fixture in place only to uncover this.
Huh?
I don’t have any bulbs that size.
Neither does Target.
I guess I will be taking a trip to Home Depot this week.
3.
How do I do it?
I made this cake.
This is what the picture on the box looks like.
Yummy!
This is what my cake looked like.
Yummy*!
*the boys called it a pancake
Yes, That is a double layer cake that measures in at less than one inch.*
*Ryan did say that it tasted better than it looked. I mean, it still was cake…sugar, flour, eggs, frosting…
The crystals magically appear while the tub is being filled. There are no toys or washcloths in the tub. It doesn’t happen to any of the other tubs in the house. Randomly they don’t appear, but most the time they are there.
2. How do I ask for this light bulb? Should I take the picture to the store?
Our main bathroom downstairs light has been burned out for a few days. The boys refuse to pee in the dark. Last night I got several replacement light bulbs, the ladder, un-screwed the 3 bolts that held the heavy glass fixture in place only to uncover this.
Huh?
I don’t have any bulbs that size.
Neither does Target.
I guess I will be taking a trip to Home Depot this week.
3. How do I do it?
I made this cake. This is what the picture on the box looks like.
Yummy!
This is what my cake looked like.
Yummy*!
Yes, That is a double layer cake that measures in at less than one inch.*
I’ve had similar “leftovers” in the tub. Odd, indeed.
I love how your other commenters seem to be able to diagnose your cake woes. Little Suzie Homemakers you have reading here! 😉
3) If the cake texture is wrong, your oven temperature might be off OR you mixed the cake way too much. It’s also possible that you need new cake pans.
2) Just bring in the picture and the dimensions.
1) Those little green things might be imperfections in the surface of the tub getting magnified by the water.
The tub looks like maybe one of the toys is leaving that crystal crap! I would soak all the toys in bleach water than rinse in hot water. We have no diswasher so I clean our tub toys in the washing machine on spin and rinse only.
Also try cleaning the tub really really good. I use Armin Hammer Scrub Free with Oxy. I am so pleased with it.
The light bulb is one you can get from Lowes and Home Depot. Take the picture with you and ask with that bulb.
As for the cake, you are now talking to the granddaughter of a baker. I was the only one in the family interested in the skill so she taught me everything. Quality of the pan is everything! Make sure it is good and that heat is evenly distributed all over. Next use the correct pan size. Than after the cake is cooled graze off the dome tops so it lays flat. Go by a spatula for icing cake only. Than whip the icing up real well and spread it like you would paint on a wall, nice and even. To get the squiggle you can put some icing into a plastic bag snip off the tip and just act like a kid. Hope that helps!
I think you should start charging people money to bahte in your tub. Tell them it has magical spring powers and that it will enable them to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Or at least, it will help them bake a layer cake that is actually less than an inch thick. You’ll have a line out your door around the block of people trying to get in!
LOL! My cakes ALWAYS look like that. I swear there are evil-doers at Dunkin Hines that make it impossible for the cakes to look exactly like the box. And changing lightbulbs? Don’t even get me started 🙂
I bet it takes the same though and now theres more of it to go around
Love the cake…the bulb, change the fixture too much of a hassle, the crystals…who knows.
That light bulb situation would have really, really annoyed me. It’s enough of a pain to change the ceiling bulbs!
I think you have some kind of specialty tub, made to excite small children about taking a bath. Kind of like the cereal bowls we had as kids- had to eat all your cereal up to find out which character was hiding the bottom of your bowl.
I avoid Home Depot like the plague- the one here is terrible. Lowe’s, though, was happy to help me find an odd lightbulb from my old house- I just took it in and showed it to a kind older man who found it for me in about ten seconds.
The cake? Looks good to me. At least yours is consistantly flat– I have made several in my day where just the middle or one side falls.
1) I’d have to guess those things are in the drain of that tub and some mysterious plumbing science makes them come up at certain times and not others. No idea what they are, but…seamonkeys?
2) I think this was mentioned before, but make sure you measure the diameter of that 1978 light bulb before you head to Home Depot. But their people are like magicians or something.
3) At least you HAVE cake!