Left my sprinklers on too long and

August 22, 2008 | Filed under: Stuff

Got two hundred of these in my yard . . .

Sigh. But I should be grateful that it’s not winter and this isn’t what’s in my yard . . .

How about you? Make any bonehead moves lately? Share.

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Pat L. says:

Happy Weekend to All.

Isnt it kind of creepy, all those frogs? Maybe you can make them on the barby. Yuk. You aren’t going to adopt any, are you?
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 4:21 am
Suzanne says:

It’ll be snowing soon enough! Doesn’t it start snowing there in September? Wonder where the little frogs go then….
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 5:49 am
Ashley says:

Umm, yeah all the time! Recently while cooking I turned the wrong stove eye on and then stuck my hand to it, I had the rings of the stove eye burned into my hand for like a week!! It’s funny now, but it hurt like hell at the time! What can I say, I’m brillant!
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 5:52 am
Ang says:

Left over pancakes warming in the oven.
Shut off oven..and…forgot about said pancakes.
Later than evening..preheat oven to make brownies.
Smell burnt pancakes..
:wall: You would think I would have learned to check the oven FIRST before turning it on as I do this ALL the time.
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 6:09 am
sls-rainey says:

I’m painting my Sister-in-Law’s kitchen. She’s expecting and can’t be in the room while I paint.

Last night I stepped into the other room to talk to her and while talking with my hands, I managed to run the paint roller over about half of my arm.

The reason I went to talk to her… I had knocked the fan plug out of the socket directly into my paint pan. Sigh.
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 6:13 am
Nina says:

I just have to ask. I cannot keep it in. Did any of the frogs turn into princes when you kissed them Jill?

And here is my contribution to the wonderful collection of mistakes:

You know the round flat thingys made of cork you put your pots and pans on when they’re hot to protect the table or counter? I will admit that being from Sweden I have some gaps in my English. Anyway, a couple of months ago I made lasagna and put said dish in the oven without bothering to check underneath it first. A couple of minutes later it started to smell horrible. One of those corky thingys had stuck underneath the dish and went straight into the oven also. Smoke billowed out of the oven and the cork was all black. Strangely enough the smoke detector didn’t go off. The lasagna turned out good though.

Another time was when I was a student I had not quite figured out how to make popcorn in microwave without turning them into charcoal. I managed to burn three bags straight. It smelled horrible but being the stubborn woman I am, I just kept on burning them. I thought I had aired all the foulness out when a neighbour (yes, the cute guy across the hall) had traced the horrible smell in the hallway to my apartment and asked if I was setting fire to my hair or something like that.

Nina
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 6:27 am
Liza says:

While I was walking on my crutches I tried to go up a step a fell and broke a toe on my good foot. So for 3 days I had to have a boot on my left foot and have my toes all taped up on my right foot. I had to wear a shoe all the time to be able to walk around. Luckily, the broken toe is already healed enough for me to walk much better. I get to go to the doctor today to have all of my bandages removed from my left foot and actually see what my foot looks like.
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 6:34 am
Jill says:

I LOVE reading these stories. Love it. It’s good to know I’m not alone, lolol!!!
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 6:58 am
Dee says:

I watered and cared for a nice looking plant that sprang up near my birdfeeder, and only learned the other day it is hemlock. Might make a funny plot idea for one of your books – I was seriously thinking it might be good in a salad. I wish I were kidding.
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 7:07 am
christa says:

I have element covers on me stove. One day I turned on the wrong element so now instead of the element cover being white with blue flowers it’s dark brown
Ang -we never seem to check if there is anything in oven before turning it on. I know at times I keep extra cookie sheets in oven and turn oven on to preheat only to find out the cookie sheets that you need are in oven(at least they are warm) and the now hot racks are are at the wrong levels.
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 7:50 am
Jill says:

Oh and no we’re not keeping any of the frogs. We did that last year and it required us buying crickets, LIVE, and feeding the frogs and I just can’t go there again.

As for the oven stories above, lol, I’ve done every single one of those things! I never learn . . .
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 7:53 am
Donna M says:

At the moment I can’t think of a bonehead move but trust me there have been plenty over my lifetime!

Here is something! I’m in the process of moving so everything is a diaster, stuff all over, etc. The other day I was using a Sharpie with a broad point to mark things, laid it down, could not find it, it has to be somewhere!! :wall: The next day I was at Wal-Mart bought some more Sharpie’s, now I can’t find those but I did find the one I misplaced–it was under a dust cloth!! The new ones may be in a bag in the car but I didn’t see them when I looked the other day. Guess I better look again. I left the purchases in the car because they are for the “new” apartment!! Maybe they are lurking under something!!
Everyone enjoy the weekend. I’ll be packing & weeding out, throwing out, shredding, wondering why I have ???. I’m keeping all my Jill Shalvis books. Why would I not!! :heart:
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 10:01 am
Donna M says:

My post disappeared!
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 10:02 am
Robin says:

Did you hear croaking all night? We get hundreds of those frogs in winter, after it’s been raining. They’re all over my son’s elementary school, and he’s always asking me to bring them home. We’ve done so a couple times, but he’ll often sneak a few, you know palm them, and then use one of my only remaining tupperware containers to put them in until I figure it out. Once I found one in my car! Poor little guy.

I’ve been commiting bonehead moves a lot lately by forgetting things. Had an appointment for my 15-year-old to get his driver’s permit, and I grabbed a copy instead of the original birth certificate. (Very bad words screamed in my head.) They don’t hold your appointments at the DMV, even though I swore we’d be right back in about 15 minutes. The lady said the wait if we came right back with the original would be an hour and fifteen minutes. The next appointment we could get was two weeks. So we came back (both my son and I grumbling), sat down and waited. And guess what? I was so busy texting on my new cell phone that I missed them call our number. Yep. Bonehead. At least that was the look the woman gave me when I approached the counter and told her we missed our number. This was my son – And the worst part of all this? My son got his permit. So he’s driving me all around town.
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 10:13 am
april says:

My sister had 2 frogs in her yard. She thought one drowned in her kiddie pool and actually threw the pool away, but the next day, the frogs were gone.

Nothing boneheaded, but I did have a comedy of errors yesterday involving a almost 10 month old, a lot of poo, a couch, a carpet, and a roll of papertowels. That was humbling enough. Nothing like being laughed at by someone who can’t stand on her own yet.
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Stephanee says:

I’ve had too many embarrassing bonehead maneuvers to count be it in the kitchen, in the car, out in public and I’m always putting my foot in my mouth. As a pre-teen and home alone for the first time, I tried to cook tortillas in the toaster since I was not allowed to use the stove top to toast them unless my mother was actually in the house. The tortillas stuck to the bottom of the toaster and started a fire. The entire bottom of the cabinet that the toaster was underneath became engulfed immediately and I had to call a neighbor to help me put it out since we had no fire extinguisher. I had toasted tortillas over the stove a zillion times without incident before and tried to blame this all on my mother when she got back since she was the one who made up the no stove when adults aren’t around rule.
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Brandy says:

I was ironing the other day, finished and put up the iron, went to put up the ironing board and somehow touched the iron with my arm (And it hadn’t cooled down yet). I now have a lovely 2nd degree burn. *sigh*
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Cryna says:

Yuck on the frogs.

I have had a few of those bonehead moments. The most recent one being – talking on the cordless phone and after finishing talking turned it off and put it down. Got what I wanted from the basement closet, can we see where this is going, :rotfl: went back upstairs after closing the closet door. Later when the phone rings and I reach for it and it is not in its place. I grabbed the other phone all the while wondering where I could have put the other one. I searched for it for about 10 minutes until I had the bright idea to hit the “find me button” and listen for the muffled far away phone. Went to the basement and found it nicely on the shelf in the closet. :wall:
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
naomi says:

I have fibromyalgia and am often in what is called a brain fog. I have put clothes in the refrigerator instead of the washing machine. And no, those two appliances aren’t in the same room or even the same floor. I often walk into rooms for a purpose and, upon entering the room, completely forget what it is I was going to do.

Last night, the husband caught me staring at the bottle of marinade for the steaks with a puzzled look on my face. When he asked me what was wrong, I looked at him and said, “I forget what I was going to make for dinner. I have the marinade in my hand, but no idea what I was going to put it on.”

He, laughing and shaking his head, walked me to microwave where I had been thawing two lovely steaks. “You think it might be those?”

Yeah, I have my moments.
Posted on August 26th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
JL says:

My husband and I are the parents of furry, four-footed, and tailed children. They are all potty-trained, eat what I put in front of them, bathe themselves, and sleep whenever (and wherever) they want. So…three months ago, my brother’s life implodes and we end up caring for his three little girls. And I do mean little–at the time, not yet 3 and 18-month-old twins. I’ve done my fair share of babysitting, but this was instant mommyhood. We muddled along fairly well, and it was only about three weeks ago that I made my first truly stupid mistake. It was bath day, and the older twin has skin eczema, which requires she be lubed up after baths with my intense healing lotion to keep the eczema in check. Since they all are half Hispanic, I treat their hair with some pretty intense conditioner that I just leave in. The 3-y-o refers to the conditioner as “lotion,” despite my best efforts to correct her and tell her it’s conditioner. I had dressed the other two munchkins, and left out the clothes, the lotion and the baby wipes (used on Twin #2 who was already stinky and needed a new diaper) for Twin #1 while I ran to the kitchen to take a work call and jot down notes so I’d remember it later to write it down in my call log. When I got back to the living room, Oldest (the 3-y-o) had very carefully “lotioned” both of her sisters’ heads, and they’d all thwipped all the Huggies wipes out of the container. I was able to mostly wipe the lotion out of Twin #1′s hair (it has a tighter curl, and not nearly as much lotion), but Twin #2, who hates getting shampooed, had to be taken back up to the bath, shampooed a second time, and she screamed and cried. I hated for her to cry, but it was the only way to get all the lotion out.

Of course, I took pictures….
Posted on August 27th, 2008 at 7:06 pm