Burning

Burning down the house...remember that song?  Here's a link -

Talking Heads Burning Down the House

And that's just what I almost did tonight...yikes!

Picture this: a nice little soup cooking on the back of the stove,  a pan of (stinky) sausages frying, a grill with a wooden cutting board sitting on top of it for a pretty decoration, and a broken oven fan switch.

There I was - following detailed instructions from Tough Guy - he says "just turn the grill on a tiny bit and it will activate the grill fan"

So I did.
Guess I turned it a bit too much.
So much for my pretty decoration...we burned that board bad!

That was before.

This was after.

Sorry, no picture available as wooden cutting board is in the furnace, all burnt up into ashes!

We had flames.  Actual flames. Licking the bamboo sides and curling up and around the bottom of the board.

Tough Guy freaked out.

 I tried to find my sense of humour through the clouds of smoke.

"Well, what d' ya know, we've got a fire.
Ooopsieeeee daisys! How did that happen? 
Don't you just love the smell of wood smoke!?

  Smells so cozy and homey doesn't it! Mmmm!"
See, in times of stress, I go into slow and careful mode...act as if everything will turn out all right...
even when I'm pretty sure that nothing will ever be the same again.

The girls alternated between shock and awe,
 then whimpering and stressing, then laughing

 and plugging their ears from the smoke alarm

while they rushed to open all our windows and doors.

 

Brrrrrr!  It got mighty cold in here, pretty quickly too!
  JUST MIGHT NEED TO LIGHT ANOTHER FIRE,
DON'T CH'A THINK!!!??

 

Thanks to blackenedmoon.com for this animation

Do you have a plan for what to do if a small fire starts on a wooden cutting board in your little ol' kitchen?
  Are you a baking soda sprinkler or a water tosser?
And how DO you get rid of the smell - it's not so cozy/homey at all!  More like burnt oil and charred ashes!  Yuck!