Biggest Idiot Award

So if there is an award for the biggest idiot, today I would have earned it! Let me explain.

Over this past weekend since it was so nice outside, we decided to have a family work outside day. Josh worked on stacking the remaining wood we had delivered a few weeks ago and I decided to start working on getting the yard sort of cleaned up and move some plants around. The former owners of our house years ago had planted some raised garden beds in the main part of the yard. We are not going to be using raised garden beds and want to take advantage of all the yard space to make room for our kids to play..anyway the garden beds had to go. Along with the random plants that still remained. This was my project for the day. Those of you who know me at all, know that I love projects. What you also may know about me is that I get very focused on completing a project once it has been started..I forget to eat sometimes I get so motivated to finish. Unfortunately for me the yard project is going to be a several-weekend project. The last thing that I attempted to do before dark approched on Sunday was to remove this insanely large ivy plant that is in the middle of the yard. Even with Josh's help, we could not remove it. Josh suggested burning it.

Well, the last couple days I have been dying to get outside and get this thing done. But the past few days have been windy and of course, to err on the side of safety I waited.

So today I decided was the day. It rained last night so everything around there was moist and it wasn't windy. Perfect. Unfortuantely for me, the thing would not burn! So I got the brilliant idea to douse it with gasoline. Now, here I must point out that I have a brother in law who is a firefighter. Mike, if you by chance read my blog, you may want to stop reading at this point. I put a few dry pieces of wood in there and poured gasoline on it. Then I lit it. As you can well imagine, there was a huge woosh as the fire blew up in my face. I screamed and ran from the fire. Then not knowing whether or not I was on fire, I stopped and fell to the ground and since it was wet, I got my hands wet and rubbed my face. My eyebrows were still there, but my hair felt really funny. I had horrifying visions of having the front part of my hair completely singed off. I ran to the bathroom as fast as I could safely get there to check out the damage. There were a lot of singed pieces of hair, but nothing completely gone like I'd feared. I took a brush outside and brushed it all out of my hair. Then I hopped into the shower and shampooed, shampooed, conditioned, shampooed and conditioned. Anyway, everything is okay, I'm fine, and my hair is okay I think..(it's still wet) But I may have to go tomorrow and get a haircut.

So, today I earn the biggest idiot award. I'm glad that God protects us from even ourselves sometimes.