dishes finally washed!

Go ahead, count the coffee cups, I'll wait.

There's nine of them - NINE!

As they are my measure of days passed since dishes were washed, that means NINE days have elapsed since these racks were last used for drying purposes.

That's because I had to wait for this wound to heal up a bit before I dared submerge it in soapy water.

Yeah, even little dancing Rudolph is aghast at how nasty it looked - and this was five days after the event.

I was cooking butternut squash on the lower oven rack and when the upper rack, at 425 F, made contact.

Now, four days after the above photo was taken, the burn mark as finally healed enough to not have an open site.

Poor little reindeer, he's still quite alarmed, but even he admits it looks better.

Me? I'm just glad to have clean glasses and bowls and forks and pots to use again.

No worry about running out of coffee mugs - I have plenty of those!

(smile!)