10 Things to do with a Gigantic Bowl of Fruit

Good Morning,

Being new to an area requires effort if one would like to make friends and build community.

So...last Friday we loaded up the car with a gigantic bowl of fruit and headed off to our first pot luck! I will spare you all the details but I will have you know that the street naming system in Lawrence if faulty. Oklahoma St. is not situated between Ohio St. and Oregon St. it is somewhere out in BFE!!! Anyway, because this was truly an open to the community event there was no one expecting our arrival. We also realized at some point at a small gathering food function you really can be "tardy for the party" (holla Kim Zolciak Housewife in Orange Co.!)...

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All this to say...we decided we were hungry enough to head home, call off the search and drown our sorrows in a bowl of fruit. Much of the fruit has been given away however we are still asking what to do with all this fruit?!!!

10 Things to Do with a Gigantic Bowl of Fruit.

1. stick it on your head a la Carmen Miranda and perfect the postures of your samba dancing

2. make a "real time" nativity scene. watch the carpenter Joseph start as a fine young grape...then shrivel to a raisin. no crib for a bed? see what happens when baby Jesus lays on a pineapple tidbit...how growth and development are necessary, without it Jesus would have been trapped and confined to an empty husk...

3. do a reverse Trick or Treat...knock on your neighbors' door and hand them a piece of fruit. instead o saying "Tick or Treat!" you get to end with an emphatic you're welcome!

4. take the entire bowl with you to your next doctor's visit and say "here. here is all fruit i'm not eating..."

5. get out your easel and beret and perfect your still lifes

6. drop healthy sized grapes on the floor for your cat so she can have kitty soccer practice. feed her oranges at halftime.

7. if the college football team of your undying devotion is having a stinker of a year, let the fruit bowl set...we're goin to the Rotten Bowl this year! (i.e. not the Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Sugar Bowl...)

8. if someone in your household likes to cook and is good natured, as they enter the kitchen grab a new fresh fruit variety from the bowl and say "today's big ingredient is...the strawberry GO!"

9. add an orangeman to your giant marshmallow family with Twizzler swords

10. eat the fruit it is yummy

okay, Happy Monday,

Amanda