Oil Spills

We've had a few oil spills in the past few weeks ( three to be exact) and all have been disastrous!!!

The first oil spill- Nate likes to change the oil in our vehicles if he has a free Saturday here or there, he had just changed the oil in his car and had the pan of used motor oil (about 5 quarts) sitting on a bucket. Fast forward a few days... we adopted two kitties (mmm more on that another time) Anyway those kitties like to hang out in our garage, there are lot of places to hide from that crazy dog that is around here.  I'm sure you can see where this is headed, yes we had a LAKE of oil - dirty filthy oil all over the floor in our garage.  I was amazed how far 5 quarts could spread, it looked more like 5 gallons!! We are still cleaning.

The second oil spill was Hudson's doing. I made stir fry for dinner- I left the bottle of vegetable oil out while we ate.  I don't really know what happened next or I would have done something about it right away!  I noticed two dishtowels on the counter soaked with something. The lid was tightly on the oil so I didn't think anything of it. After the kids were in bed for the night I went up and started cleaning up the kitchen when I noticed my (3 month old) cell phone sitting in a LAKE of vegetable oil!!! He spilled about half the bottle- eeek! I'll give him credit for trying to mop some of it up with the towels though. My phone is still seeping oil but miraculously it still works!!!

The third oil spill was MY fault- We were leaving for the weekend and the lawn needed to be mowed.  Nate had to coach Brody's football team and Braiden had football practice so I volunteered ;) to stay home and mow while they did the football stuff.  I got all geared up with my grubby shoes, ipod, sunglasses and bug spray and found out the lawn mower was out of gas...so was the gas can. No big deal I'll just go refill it.  Nate told me to only fill it about half way but I behaved like a teenager and didn't listen thinking I knew better.  Needless to say I spilled gasoline all over the back of my suburban because I filled the can too full.  Luckily most of it got on the mat and I was able to take it out and hose it of and scrub scrub scrub.

Jeesh! I need a break!