Ok let's clarify I didn't burn my aparment down. Just almost :o)
But here is how the story went down. Observe this pallet to the left the wooden slap with the boxes on it. Well there were quite a few in a dumpster in my apartment so my roomie and I thought
hey we like fires, we should grab a few and use them for firewood.
So we did. They were broken and so we thought we would be easily able to break them down.
So last Saturday I am home by myself and I thought I would really like a fire. So I went outside grabbed one of the pallets and broke off the peices I could and started a fire, no big deal at this point.
Here is where my common sense went right out the window...
I ran out of wood and couldn't break any more off so I put the whole pallet into the fire place. I know i know. But I thought well it is such old wood and brittle that when it burns a little I will just be able to break it off. So it started burning a little and a little more and I tried breaking it down and I couldn't. So I thought ok no big deal I will just get a hammer and that will work. So I got the hammer and was pounding on it and that didn't work either.
Ok I thought this might be a problem.
So I started freaking out at this point, what am I going to do. I tried propping the pallet up inside the chimney that didn't work. I started thinking I might have to call 9-1-1-!! So I start sweating and kinda running back and forth in my apartment contemplating what I can do.
1. throw the pallet off of my deck as it is burning
2. throw water on the fire
3. all of sudden morph into superwoman and break the pallet with my super strong arms
4. Call 9-1-1 and have firefighters come into my home
5. Run away and it was a good thing I got that renter's insurance
6. Get the fire extinguisher
I went with the last choice, and I broke it out from under the sink. I then attempted to shoot the stuff out, well the one handle didn't work and at this point I am thinking to myself great I have the fire extinguisher out and now I can't even get the stupid thing to work. Finally I figured it out and was expecting this burst of the chemicals to come out. What really happened was white powder fell out of the hole. There was no such shooting out as I had anticipated. It was rather anti climatic as I was expecting.
So the part of the pallet that was actually burning was a ways into the fireplace I literally had to maneuver my body was I was almost standing directly above it since the powder was not exaclty working properly.
So there I sat on the floor sweating cause I thought I was going to burn my apartment down and having ripped the fire extinguisher off the wall and that was the result of me having a nice relaxing evening by the fire. FYI next time buy firewood :o)
Rachel on the beach
laughing.
Rachel and Hunter
Guess we wore him out, precious.
on the pier
rachel playing in the sand
hunter tellin me he found more shells
following in foot steps
screaming at the top of our lungs, man i am a fun aunt
best friends.
fun.
noses.
yep he is still my favorite
I miss seeing this everyday.
The "Rhino" aka my dad's sooped up golf cart
Precious.
She found her button.
up?
or down?
This is rachel's first fish she has EVER caught
I like driving the rhino
ummm powered donuts
She likes em.
Look at those sweet brown eyes.
