We stopped down to the garden and picked a big batch of cilantro and some spinach. A bounty for mid December in Rochester! The temperature was near seventy and Jared’s goldfish had come out of hibernation. They were hungry and scurried to the side of the pond when they heard us.
Peggi put the freshly picked cilantro into a plastic bag and I set it down on a burner that had just been turned off. The bag melted immediately and stunk to high heaven. I threw the bag out and then opened the doors to clear out the stink.
We wanted to use the burner tonight so I turned on the overhead exhaust fan, put the burner on high and left the room. The melting plastic odor filled the house. I opened the doors again and lit some pine incense. In hindsight I suspect Jared, a former Kodak chemist, would have had a better solution for removing the plastic from the burner.
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