Floppy Toast

When I lived in the dry desert in Africa, toast was easy to make.  A slice of bread quickly turned into a giant crouton not long after taking it out of its bag.  I liked to make bread crumbs to use in recipes, so my habit was to remove the heels of sliced bread and leave it on a rack in my kitchen.  In a few hours I would return and the bread, dry as a bone, could be easily crushed into dry bread crumbs.

A few weeks ago I had a couple of pieces of bread I wanted to make crumbs out of.  I took them out of their bag and plopped them on a rack and went about my other chores.  That evening I returned to the kitchen and grabbed what I expected to be two dry pieces of bread.  As usual, planning to crush them into crumbs. I was surprised to find two floppy soggy pieces of bread.  Oops!  I live in the humid tropics now!  Ha! Ha!  I had a good laugh at myself!

Things are just different in the tropics and sometimes I forget.  I have moved from the desert (with almost no humidity) to the tropics with 70-90% humidity!  I have to learn to do things different.  It's not just the humidity, I am still learning how to get to know my neighbors, how to share about Christ, how to cook, how to act and yes, how to make bread crumbs!