Remembering the ill-fated turkey soup
The following is what I posted on my Facebook just after I cleaned up my mess. I’ve toyed many different times re: submitting it to The Press, so now I’ve finally done so. Such like this never happened again – now in an assisted living complex.
As usual I “inherited” a Christmas turkey carcass – turkey soup coming up! All afternoon the carcass simmered in a huge pot. Best laid plans of mice and men (women) sometimes go awry.
To make sure of broth, totally free of bits of skin, bones, etc., l had a brain wave and would use a double strainer – my metal colander and a regular sieve.
The cooled pot of broth and bones now ready to be dumped into my “double strainer.” Heave, ho, up and dump. WHAT? In a split second and to myself said: “Why is all that broth flooding the counter? Oh, no, Norma, where’s the ‘catch basin’ for the broth?”
And then in a flash I put things above the ‘flood zone’ and grabbed any towel in sight and on site and began to sop and soak up my turkey broth, which now covered a big territory of cupboard and off the cupboard down to the floor and UNDER the stove! Sop, soak, and wring and finally the cupboard was pretty clear. But under the stove – no way these old knees could get down for that broth – what could I use? (Necessity is the mother of invention!) Got me my yardstick and pushed the towels back and forth sopping and wringing out until the job seemed done. Nary a word I spoke during this ordeal and hubby didn’t even know of my mess until I needed his help to get the stove drawer back in its place. Yes, I did manage a bit of broth as I stopped the dumping before all the broth was out of the pot. So, I will make a little turkey soup and relish every spoonful as never again will a turkey carcass come into my house!
I have berated myself and wondered how I could have EVER been so absent-minded as to not have put a container to CATCH the broth!
Norma Nigh Sherk,
Townsend
Re: Nanticoke MZO request
I have additional concerns about the Nanticoke MZO request from our County.
If thousands of homes are built in the area under consideration in the Nanticoke Industrial Park, there will be a major need for additional infrastructure. A wastewater plant will be required and a place to store or transport solid waste. My understanding is that the developer has offered to provide this if the development is approved.
When an area is developed, all roads, sewers, and lighting must be in place by the developer before a building can be erected. I would expect that the wastewater plant should be built and operational before any building is started. This is an expensive undertaking and of concern if a home is built without the wastewater plant being operational and the developer goes bankrupt. If that were to happen, the County would be obligated to complete the plant for the good of the new homeowners at the expense of the existing County taxpayers.
Bob Rankin,
Townsend
