Nothing like having to pull a piece of tinsel hanging out of a cat's bum to really get in the holiday mood. Every year, the same thing. I had no idea tinsel was so tasty.
I'm surprised there is water in them. Perhaps to dissolve the instant coffee? I used to make gourmet dog biscuits and made different styles of cookies. I particularly made extra crumbly ones for elderly or toothless dogs. They were almost like a shortbread cookie and the key to making them so easy to bite and crumbly was not using water in the recipe. Water make a softer, chewy cookie. But the lady says she uses pancake batter which has me stumped because that type of batter makes a cake-like cookie not a crumbly one.
I thought this article was about the big alligator statues people dress up and display for the holidays down in Louisiana. We had a restaurant right in town that served complimentary alligator bits while waiting for your entrees.
When I used to fly I saw this sort of situation pretty often. Some parents think it's funny. Other parents don't watch their kids for differing reasons. It's not funny and could be dangerous. I just don't like kids climbing all over other people's suitcases. Manners, people!
Extreme pressure? When I was in 6th grade my family had moved to Michigan for my dad's new job promotion. My new school had a cooking/home economics class that I found myself in. The teacher handed me a raw egg in it's shell and told me to hold it until it was needed for her recipe. I had read that you could use extreme pressure on both ends of an egg and it wouldn't break. So I stood there for half an hour squeezing the top and bottom of the egg as hard as I could. When the teacher asked for the egg I placed it in the palm of her hand where it exploded all over her. Did not anticipate that...
I directed 30 plays and acted in more than that over a 20 year span working in the 'theatre'. I have stated in the past, and I'm still sticking with my statement, that at least 85% of actors have mental problems. I am talking delusional. What we would call "sane" is hard to find within the acting community. Oh... the stories I could tell.
We had a 'lone wolf' squirrel who was assigned the task of taking out the internet at various times of the year. He was actually seen on camera breaking into a metal casing that held sensitive wires and cables and stripping them of their rubber/plastic/??? sleeves and shorting out the feed AND filling the metal casing to the brim with acorns. Sabotage is a squirrel's greatest talent. You have been warned...
I think you are supposed to get to the middle of the ferry if there is a problem with the boat or bad weather/high waves and such. It's safer in the middle than by the sides of the ferry.