Cruel Wife came out to show me what she has done and helped me in the shop with moving the bigger stuff around to get ready for the contractor. She’s not very big, but she’s strong. Her first baby come out sideways – she didn’t scream or nuttin. **snorrrrrt-snort-snttt**
15 points if you can guess the movie reference.
Anyway…
About 30-40 min later HackerBoy came running out to the shop hollering “There is something on fire on the stove!”
So we ran back to the house to find it filled with thick heavy smoke. You have NO IDEA how much smoke can come from burning rice. File that away for future reference next time relatives outstay their welcome.
Oh boy oh wow, it is hours later and the house still reeks of it.
Don’t worry, the cats are ok.
I told CW that I am not as fond as all that of brown rice. Used to be white. Now, not so much.
She was all embarrassed but as I pointed out, the boy did the exact right thing and nothing was hurt. All good. Exceptin’ maybe the smoke.
No idea where the goat came from… Might have stolen it from Laura but I put less than 5 percent on that possibility.
I have had that happen with other ruminants. And it is embarrassing every time.
Lemur King's Folly 
GOAT VENDING?!? Where do you find those? All we have around here are drive-thru llama shops, and I’m beginning to suspect they’re less “llama” and more “processed”, as they often times have more akin to Dali than to a llama.
No idea on the movie.
Oregon has them ever since the “Right to Goat” laws passed in 1993. They are watched very closely for illicit goat peddling and taxes are collected by the state.
I think Hackerboy actually said something to the effect of “The kitchen is getting cloudy from something on the stove”, but I was wildly proud that he realized something was wrong and came to get us. (Remember, he’s 7 and mildly autistic.)
Dang. The kitchen still stinks.
Well yes, but if he could articulate clearly I think he would have actually said “Excuse me, mother and father, but I thought it was important to inform you that food being prepared for father’s midday meal tomorrow is currently carbonizing and/or combusting on the stovetop. I feel it imperative to convey my distress that the house is being filled with particulates and noxious odors, and as I do not understand the workings of a fire extinguisher, I also felt it necessary to express these sentiments at once.”
I boiled it down succinctly, I thought.
Everyone’s gotta be a critic.
time for new batteries in the smoke alarm/kitchen timer?
I am not sure if batteries would have helped us across the yard and through the garage to the back half in this instance but in general you are right.
Planes, trains and automobiles. That was the movie.
Yep, that was the one! Good catch dt.
Shoot…I get inundated with crap and miss out on the good stuff.