I do dumb things often-ish, and I’ve decided to celebrate them! Feel free to join in (or mock me, that’s also good).
Today I bought a lovely new bird feeder for outside the window, to replace the old, gross one that’s hung there for decades. While I was out there transferring seeds from one to the other, it was rather windy, and some of the seeds & associated dust unexpectedly blew into my face/eyes.
Did I mention that we get the “hot” seeds coated in capsaicin?
I doubt it was as effective as, say, getting sprayed by an actual pepper spray canister, but holy shit. Eventually a lot of cupped hands and warm water ameliorated it, but man, I’m still tingling.
I usually sprinkle some cinnamon on my breakfast oat groats, but one time after adding the usual butter and maple syrup, I grabbed the jar next to the cinnamon and sprinkled a mix of garlic, onion, shallots and chives all over it. It didn’t work well in that context.
Two things to think about here: do not transfer seeds to a new feeder, that is how bird flu gets transmitted. Clean your feeders with a bleach solution weekly which will not only help stop the bird diseases from spreading, it will stop the dust from accumulating.
Also, milk help with pepper spray, I would expect it would help with a face full of pepper dust as well.
This wasn’t today, but a few weeks ago, I treated myself to a hunk o’cow. (I wanna say a piece of sirloin?)
In my kitchen, beef gets a nice, long salt treatment, prior to searing.
In my pantry, there is a canister of salt.
Next to it, sits a very similar looking canister of sugar.
… you can guess what happened.
After some cursing, I gave the hunk o’cow a quick rinse and pat-dry, salted it with the correct fucking canister and the residual sweetness still detectable was … not displeasing at all.
if you think that this is a nuisance to read - you should see the nuisance of me typing this thing up on my tablet (8 out of 10 mistakes I stop/correct before my msg. hit SDMB) … very frustrating! (typing on the computer now)
My everyday com. needs are 80% spanish, 15% english and 5%german … you should see me type msg on whatsapp in german to my parents … LOTs of coursing as every damn word gets autocorrected/autocorregido auto-irgendwas …on my phone
My latest: After receiving about 5 inches of snow I went out to crank up the snow blower. After about 15 minutes of effort the dang thing would not start. Frustrated, I shoveled the entire walk/driveway/porch/patio the old fashioned way.
When done shoveling, I began disassembling the blower to investigate. I removed five screws when I noticed that I had not placed the key in the ignition, which is obviously required for starting.
The key will now stay in the ignition, not on a nail in the garage.
Yeah, we switched maybe five years ago when the red squirrels overran the feeder. I don’t mind them occasionally, but they’ll eat/carry off huge amounts of seed. They also dug a hole in the roof eave over the feeder that I haven’t figured out how to fix.
I apologize, but I laughed so loud that my wife asked what I was reading. I’m sure we’ve all done something similar.
I left the chicken out on the counter until it got to room temperature. I usually treat chicken with more care than that. However, I couldn’t bring myself to throw it out, so I cooked the dickens out of it and it was fine!
I haven’t done anything remarkably dumb today, but it’s still early…
I always thaw my chicken and ground beef on the counter. It takes days to thaw in the fridge. I’ve been doing it this way for 40+ years and nothing has ever happened.
I accidently watered my new tree for 4.5 hours. I probably doubled my monthly water bill. I’m just glad that my neighbor saw it and texted me about just as I was going to bed…
After a 7 hour presentation about finance planning in the local language, which is not my mother tongue, I decided to get a Snickers bar. I took it back to my desk and decided I wanted water. So I grabbed my water bottle and took the elevator to the ground floor to get chilled drinking water.
At least that was my plan. After I stepped off the elevator I realized I still had the Snickers bar, but no water bottle.
