A Mormon girl and a bottle of wine...

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The situation:

Recipe calls for 1/4 cup of wine.

No one at home knows how to use a corkscrew.

Mom tries anyway.

Breaks corkscrew.

Mo takes on the challenge...after all, we need it for the marinade!

Here is a pictoral journey of her attempt:

Hammer a nail through the cork to make hole.

Ugh, can't get the dang nail out!

Pry nail out with a knife and screwdriver.  We learned about levers here.

Woo Hoo!  Nail is out!

Time to pour.  What the?  Nothing's coming out!!

Let's make the hole bigger...

Trying to pull the cork out little by little.

We've enlisted the pumpkin carver poker-thingy and it's helping to pull the cork apart!  Yay!

CRACK!  Glass fragments fall off of bottle.

Damn bottle---YOU WIN!! 


Result:  Made the marinade without the wine.  Have funny story to tell.

Revelation:  We are idiots.

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Anonymous said…
OMG - that's all I'm sayin!
April 30, 2011 at 10:42 AM
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