Ashley, you sure you want me working in a bakery with you?

[changeyourstars8]

Okay, so since there's quite a bit of flooding around the area, Chris and I decided that going out of town for an anniversary dinner would be a bad idea. Went through some recipe books, I decided to make some cookies. New recipe. Mixed together all the ingredients, and it was supposed to make a roll-out dough, but it was still a bit runny. Put some more flour in. Basically no change.

So Chris stirred while I double-checked the recipe. I put more flour in, and when it still didn't work I shook my head. "There's gotta be three cups in there now instead of just two. I swear, I have never seen flour act like this."

The light dawned.

We both looked at each other, and he tasted the 'flour' and started laughing. Yep, yours truly had grabbed the powdered sugar. Oy.

Anyway, speaking of the flooding, last night we went driving around in the country to see what roads were washed out, etc. And when we were driving down a narrow road, this white blur dropped down out of a tree and right in front of the passenger side tire. We hit an owl going about 30 mph. Chris looked at it-- basically just a wing sticking up-- and thought it was dead, so we reluctantly drove on.

Got to a flooded road, turned around . . . and the owl is sitting in the road, staring at us, looking completely dazed. I hear dogs barking nearby and considering that and the water rising in the ditch-- animal rescue time. So Chris takes my coat and wraps it around the owl, and I hold it on the way back to town, talking to it. It was actually pretty calm, except for a few mad scrambling fits.

"Umm . . . these claws can't tear through the coat, can they?"
"They definitely can."
"Ohhh great. Good owl. Don't do that anymore, k?"

We managed to get it home into our garage. When Chris unwrapped the coat, the owl took a step or two and then flew around a little bit, landing up near the roof and just tracking us wherever we went. We're both seriously surprised he was alive, let alone flying.

But the important thing is-- we got pictures. :-)









ETA: We left the garage door open all night, just in case. When we got up in the morning and went to check on him, he'd flown away. :-)

Comments

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

HEEEE wrt the powdered sugar.

Nice owl. Are you going to have it checked out?

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

We would have if he'd still been in the garage come morning. But fortunately, he was doing well enough to fly off.

[rosevaughn.livejournal.com]

LOL!! Done that before...except I used flour in my frosting...yum. So the answer to your question is yes.

Cool picts too!

And happy anniversary!

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

*S* Thanks!

And good to know I'm not the only one who's done something like that. We tried to bake the cookies anyway, just in case, and oh man. Scary. lol

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

What happened? Was the result scary but edible, or just plain frightening?

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Just plain frightening. I think we're going to need a chisel to get these things off the cookie sheet. . .

[serenityfire169.livejournal.com]

I've made cookies with pancake mix instead of flour before. Did you scrap these or just add in the flour and have really sweet cookies?

And the owl thing is cool. I'm glad he was okay.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

We ended up having to scrap them.

And yeah, we're glad too. When we first saw him after he got hit we were sure he was a goner.