I had everything on the counter I needed:
flour, sugar, brown sugar, said oil and shortening,
salt, cream of tartar, eggs...
...and the New Oxford Book of Carols
right beside the candles.
You know, to double-check the lyrics to
"E la don don Verges Maria" so I could sing along.
Loudly. And correctly.
Everything was going so well. Several batches were cooling on the counter. One batch was waiting on cookie sheets on the counter...beside the candles...
Yeah, you can tell where this is going, can't you?
I was doing some dishes when I smelled something burning. It wasn't the cookies in the oven; I'd just put them in there. When I turned around, I saw that Harry had jumped up on the counter and was standing over the candles to get to the cookie dough. And he was smoking on both sides.
HE WAS ON FIRE AND HE DIDN'T CARE BECAUSE HE WAS GETTING TO EAT COOKIES.
After much screaming (me) and hissy-hissy-hissing (him) and hosing him down and finding (relief) that he wasn't hurt and cutting off his burned fur and opening the doors and windows to get the smell out and tossing out two pans of cookie dough...
...I gave up. I baked the last batch of cookies and closed up the bakery. Harry sulked in the corner, nursing his pride and mourning the loss of huge hunks of glorious white hair on his sides.
Oh, merry. So Harry-merry.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
ReplyDeleteBest Xmas fiasco story I've heard yet!
Presumably that is a 'Before' picture of dear Harry?
It must be contageous because I chared a pan of roasted brussel sprouts last week..
It still smells of them here :(
Bear says Hi to Harry :)
That's a HILARIOUS story! I think that cats are evolving (devolving?) because they live with humans. What normal cat eats chocolate chip cookies? When we adopted our cat three years ago we couldn't leave any produce on the kitchen counter. Before he decided that he was a carnivore he ate carrots, mangoes (with the peel), eggplant, cantalope, sweet potatoes, red bell peppers and zucchini. Unfortunately, he never finished anything so we had to throw away lots of expensive, half eaten fruits and vegetables. Deprivation as a kitten? Poor little Harry!!
ReplyDeletelol. No seriously, I just laughed out loud. The image of Harry, blithely eating his Christmas cookies, *aflame*, is hilarious (in a scary-sad sort of way)!
ReplyDeleteLol, what a story! Poor Harry, his pride and fur damaged. The visuals in my mind are just excellent. I'm glad he wasn't hurt, what a goober!
ReplyDeleteAwww, poor Harry! Hahahaha. Sometimes we all just need cookies though.
ReplyDeleteHope Christmas was as wonderful as always :)