Posted by Ron on Maui
The pot was a mess. It had been slaving over the fire all day long, and it was so sooty and grimy that it was feeling out of sorts. The kettle had also been used, being the receptacle for the freshly cut apples. Spices were added along with the apples, then the entire contents were dumped into the pot for cooking down into the delicious apple butter. The kettle was never used over the fire, because it was copper and would have conducted the heat too rapidly, causing the apples to burn. Now the apple butter was cooling in glass jars, and the cleanup had started. The pot was placed next to the kettle, while awaiting its turn to be washed.
The pot glared at the kettle. Because the kettle's shiny surface was so fine, it reflected the pot. The pot could see that the kettle was as black and grimy as it was, not understanding that the image it saw was really its own image. "Hey, Kettle! You're filthy! Why don't you get cleaned up? If you had any self respect, you wouldn't look so shabby."
The kettle could not understand the pot's criticism, because it knew that they had both worked hard all day. Because it could not see its reflection in the pot's surface, it assumed they were both dirty. It felt bad to be criticized by the pot.
The moral of this story is: I am not going to say anything about no one posting to this blog, because I have also been lax at posting regularly!
This is the most sofisticated guilt trip I could think of. It is sufficiently convoluted, that your will probably be scratching your head for days trying to figure out who is whom. HA, HA! Enjoy!
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So, am I the pot or the kettle? You sure do an excellent job of making a person feel guilty. I have been wanting to respond all week. We just got home from visiting Sasha. Tomorrow will be four weeks since Stormmie had her surgery. We still have four more weeks to go until Sasha can come home. We are getting steady rain today and had a lot of rain this past week. It is wonderful! You can smell the earth and everything is so green. I hope it rains the rest of the month. All the creeks are full. The rivers are running over their banks. Clear Creek is now a huge creek with water spilling everywhere. Its been about nine years since we have had this kind of moisture. This has really helped in reducing the fire danger.
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