*plop*
Dropped down on the picnic table top in front of myself, and 4 other BSF ladies, is a dead bird.
In the form of a decapitated head (from scavengers).
*wide-eyed*
*Sprite and Tempest giggling*
I am NOT a germaphobe.
but, GROSS!
I immediately begin looking for a napkin, wipe, or anything to remove the carcass without actually touching it.
While I am pilfering around for one, our group leader asks if I need sanititzer.
Um, YES!
Can they drink it?
Can they bathe in it?
How much sanitizer is too much?
*shudders*
Anyway, I find a paper towel from our lunch.
I fold it up and pick up the bird head.
“Mom, what are you going to do with it?”
“I’m going to throw it away.”
“No! Can I take it for presentation tomorrow?”
Every week on our homeschool community day, we have a time for presentations. (i.e. public speaking).
Sprite wants to take this bird head as her presentation topic.
So, what do I do?
I open up a ziplock that previously held Doritos and place this dead bird head into it, so that we can take it home and research how to disinfect and study it.
According to Google, we first have to boil it.
That’s cool, but, I’m not going to use any of my pots to boil a bird head, then turn around and make spaghetti for dinner.
So, then I recruited my mother in law to search a Goodwill for a pot we could use and immediately throw away.
Success.
So, here I am writing this portion of the story as a bird head is spinning around in a rolling boil in a pot from the Goodwill.
Because, I can be a cool mom sometimes.
fun fact: it takes a ridiculous amount of time to boil the remnants of bird off its skeleton.
So now, we have a bird head sitting in water/bleach solution in a cleaned out relish container sitting on our kitchen table.
*sigh*
The things I do for these heathens.
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