D'oh!!!!!

I read about it.  Everything I read about it said not to do it.  Me, being me, had to go ahead and do it.  I did it twice.  Because I'm dumb.

All day it's been threatening to snow.  All day it hasn't; until now.  And now it's snowing, albeit lightly.  Still, though, snow is snow and everything I read says don't make candy on stormy days, but I wanted some divinity.

The first batch I burned.  The second batch didn't set up.  Inbetween, I destroyed a candy thermometer and ran out of eggs, so I had to go to the store.

D'oh!

Why do we do that?  What makes us think we're smarter than everybody else?  I blame mine on curiosity, really.  I was kinda bored and I want to get a start on holiday stuff.  I put the tree up and decorated it with what I could find of our decorations.  I put the train up and oiled the wheels of all the cars.  I had to do that... poor thing didn't want to move.  It's working good now, though, making it's annual trek to nowhere, a lap at a time.

But making candy was on my list and I was gonna do it.

Besides, it was a dry snow.

So today's takeaway is that sometimes, everybody does know what they're talking about and you shouldn't make candy on stormy days unless you like throwing batches of candy in the trash and cleaning up that nasty, sticky mess.

Don't forget church tomorrow.  It's the second Sunday of Advent and Christ is the reason for the season, and everything else, to boot!