And etc…

Here’s what I learned in the past week: if you happen to live in a place that routinely reaches 100 degrees fahrenheit (e.g., Utah) you should really do the dishes before you take off for a few days. If you choose not to do so, you risk coming back to a house that smells distinctly like a small animal peed all over it, even though you do not have a pet. This smell will be caused by the yellow fungus-like substance that is growing in the two bowls you used a few days before to make muffins. The dirty dishes that both you and your husband, who happen to be college-educated and normally fairly sane (or at least logical) people, thought contained substances that would just sort of dry up and get crusty and hard to clean off later, not grow colonies of very small people who don’t have indoor plumbing and hence smell like I own a furry pet of happiness (which, no, I do not, sadly).

So was it murder when we rinsed those dishes out in the sink and all those fungus-people likely perished? And yes, those two bowls were the only ones we actually cleaned at that time. The rest of the dishes are still sitting around because they are much easier to ignore.