Training & Nutrition - Healthy treat for my work colleagues

Here at the office where I work, it is tradition to bring in some treats for everyone when it is your birthday (sounds backwards, doesn't it). Naturally, most people bring in doughnuts and pastry.

I brought in hickory smoked beans and hard-boiled eggs. The Countdown to fart-off starts by 9:00 AM. All the eggs were boiled except for one (who gets the lucky egg?) - ah just kidding about the one raw egg, but that would be funny.

I had some time while watching "The Fifth Wheel" dating show on television (competitive dating - what a neat concept). I picked up my son's crayons and started to draw faces on the eggs which resemble people at work. Heeee hee HEEEeeeeeeeeee. Then I dyed the boys' eggs blue and the girls' eggs pink.

The beans have a story too. They were done to perfection and just needed the flavoring. I added a couple spoonfulls of liquid smoke and a half cup of BBQ sauce, then turned the pot to simmer and went on to do some other things.

Sure enough, I forgot about the beans and they started to burn. BURNING LIQUID SMOKEY BEANS. HOOOooooooEEEEeeeeeeeEE! Man did that stink the place up. The next day, the kids went to school smelling like they spent the night camping outside. Crabby wife. Crabby Crabby. Oh well, another half-cup of BBQ sauce, and the beans were satisfactory for the big feed.

Doughnuts for bicyclists only. Everybody else gets beans and eggs.

Sounds like you had all the fun. :D
Are you telling us by way of a humorous story that you let your birthday sneak by without telling us??? ;)
If so, then let me be the first to wish you a (belated??) :bday:

I'd like to wish you a happy birthday, too, mike. And I thought that my office was the only one with such a tradition of bringing doughnuts/pastries for one's own birthday. I agree, it is backwards. In fact, we have a list of Doughnut Bylaws posted. Not only on birthdays are treats 'required', but also for Major Life Events such as marriage, divorce, new car bought/sold, etc. By the way, the "purchase of a new bike" is not on the list.

Creative idea with the eggs!

Thats where that smell came from. Whew. I thought there was a problem at one of the paper mills.

Beans, eggs - all 100% consumed and converted.

I thought it was art. They thought it was a snack.

Glad you had an eggciting time.

Happy belated birthday, as its bean and gone.

Richard :)

Didn't you take a picture of all those pink & blue eggs with faces? Looking at your artwork I would like to see them. Do you draw for your son? Drawing together was one of the greatest things about having little kids.

Originally posted by Jean Beetham Smith
Didn't you take a picture of all those pink & blue eggs with faces? Looking at your artwork I would like to see them. Do you draw for your son? Drawing together was one of the greatest things about having little kids.

Shucks, I forgot to take photos. That would have made a neat photo!

Yes, I do draw for my children. They just scream with delight. "Oh, Dad, you can draw ANYTHING! How do you draw so good?". Heck, my art isn't so good, but when your kid's are small, they think you are a rare talent.