Yet Another Eggsperiment

FROSTY'S CHOICE? OVER EASY


"What about global warming," I hear you ask? "Is this just another myth being propagated by all the tree huggers?" I must admit that it would be difficult to attest to anything like, say, a warming of ANY kind today throughout most of the country. True, Los Angeles should be in the mid-80's, but you certainbly don't hear any of them whining about it. So why should people who live in the Midwest continually whine about how cold it gets? It's the Midwest, for crying out loud, and one of the earmarks of global warming is that storms and temperature ranges fluctuate a great deal in the middle of any continent. All of that aside, it IS cold here in Green Bay today...not as cold as it was in Minneapolis this morning where a weather person hammered a nail with a banana just to prove how frigid it was (see accompanying video URL if you want to feel somewhat warmer), but chilly nonetheless. He also froze soap bubbles which he blew, claiming that the frozen bubbles would last ten minutes before exploding into razor-sharp shards. That part is not on the video, however, because kids might have been watching.
Thus it was, with time on my hands before the dreaded dental appointment, that I decided an "eggsperiment" was necessary. If a guy can use bananas for hammers, I can at least make sure Frosty gets a good breakfast before going off to run and frolic with the school kids who were out of school today...bunch of sissies; why in MY day...
Anyway, we are used to using pre-birth poultry around here in scientific ways. Our kids used to take eggs to school every year during the autumnal equinox and stand them on end to the astonishment of their classmates--yes, this really does work twice a year: on the vernal and autumnal equinoxes. Not being remotely scientific, I cannot explain it, but it absolutely works. If you want, I can go through the family albums and show you all the photos we took of each event...of course, you'll have to see the vacation pictures as well, but the pictures are cute except for the ones in which the kids are putting two fingers up behind each others' heads or picking their noses or otherwise making the photo op as difficult as possible (they were children; that's what children DO!).
Placing a raw egg in a small teflon-coated skillet atop Frosty's lap on the front porch, I waited patiently for it to freeze into the solid mass that's just the way Frosty likes his eggs (though I observed from inside the house). Rock hard. It took almost 13 minutes, proving that it really was not all that cold here in Green Bay, but you can tell by Frosty's expression that he's pleased. It may have frozen more quickly had I placed it on the pavement, but Frosty wanted to help, and I'm all about kids helping out with food preparation.
So, if you're feeling unusually cold today, check out the video which also includes some chilling video from Iowa, get out the cocoa, and wait for spring.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/weather/2009/01/15/kare.banana.hammer.cnn

Up next? Frozen watermelons for bowling balls.