When you take a pot pie from the freezer to zap it, it is rock hard. So when you try to follow the instructions to put slits in the crust, the pie responds with extraordinary resistance. You have to do a Norman Bates with your knife to get a good slit…

Unless you first start the microwave, stop it about a minute and a half in, and THEN slit your slits effortlessly and much more cleanly.

I have been hacking away at pot pies since the 20th Century and it has never occurred to me to do this!

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Where do you take a cat who has stopped purring?

The Repurr Shop.

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Here, fulfilling a commitment to my People’s Artist voters, is image #7 of 10 of my artwork. This photo was taken in situ after my “Shuttered Bird” was juried into the Glendale Arts Council’s 62nd Annual juried show early this year.