Fresh Milk

The supply and demand of fresh milk delivered daily to our doorstep is finely balanced. There is always a need for a carton from supermarket about once a week to supplement our delivered milk.

Last week when Grace was away for 4 days on business, I felt it was a good idea to freeze 4 bottles of excess milk for later use. About 4 hrs later when I opened the freezer to get something else, I noticed the frozen milk had expanded and popped the covers off the bottles. Out they came from the freezer and back to the fridge.

Next morning, as I grabbed a bottle to warm up for Kristine, the while bottom fell off, the round glass base and all of semi-frozen milk, shaped as the glass bottle. Glass splinters and milk all over the kitchen floor.

The frozen milk cracked the bottle, neatly around the base. 2 out of 4 were therefore rendered undrinkable.

Not intended that way but our milk inventory balance was restored!