Happy New Year, 2025!

It sure has been a long time since I last posted on my blog. My intention is to change that in 2025, starting now.

The other day, while looking for my ‘toast buttering knife’, I remembered my father’s ‘sucky plate’. Firstly, yes, I do have a special knife that I always use to butter my toast. Is there any logical reason why I always use this particular knife? The answer is no, there is not.

I no longer have a full matching set of cutlery, just a hodge podge of various ones acquired over the years (much like the photo here). Some from when I was married, some from my parents and some from the local thrift stores. Any one of the knives would be perfectly adequate for buttering toast but I have one ‘special’ knife I always use.

That brings me back to my father’s ‘sucky plate’. It was a turquoise/blue melamine bread and butter size plate that I have no idea when or how it came into the house in the first place, but I was very young. My father always had to have his toast on this plate. For whatever reason, I do not know. There’s likely as much logic to it as me and my toast buttering knife.

It’s not like we did not have ‘proper’ dishes, we did. The first set I remember are the Pyrex dishes with red around the edges (see below) that my parents received as a wedding gift. Then there was the upgrade to Corelle dishes with the gold design around the rims when the family grew, and we no longer had a full set of the Pyrex ones due to breakage. So, we did have regular dishes to use.

I cannot explain my desire to use one special knife for buttering toast or my father’s need to use that melamine plate for his toast. I guess we all have funny quirks like that. What’s yours? Let me know in the comment section. We can have a chuckle together.