{"id":269,"date":"2011-01-10T06:08:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T01:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2017-06-29T12:13:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T19:13:27","slug":"and-then-there-was-slime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"And then there was slime…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday evening, after Jacob injured himself while jumping on the trampoline, and was resting with a heating pad on his back, his father found a recipe online for slime.\u00c2\u00a0 The promise of being able to do a real, honest to goodness, no foolin’ scientific experiment with his dad today was rather cheering to The Boy.<\/p>\n

And so, today, in the interval between morning mass and the special Rite of Continuing Conversion held at the Cathedral this afternoon for all the RCIA candidates in the diocese, they rolled up their sleeves and got to work concocting all manner of yuck in my kitchen.\u00c2\u00a0 I sent my junior photographer in there to document their progress, and below you see the saga of the measuring, the mixing, the kneading, the unfortunate watery first batch, the cooking of the second batch, and the final, magnificently slimy results.<\/p>\n

(To view the gallery, click on the top-left thumbnail and it will enlarge.\u00c2\u00a0 Then just click on the photo and it will go to the next one in the series like a slide show.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n