A Parlour for a Plague

Just had one of those "why didn't this occur to me before?" moments.

I don't make a lot of trash. Just one bag a week usually. I had bought a nice metal kitchen trash can with a lid.
No matter how well I rinsed, soaked in soapy water, etc. The cat food cans would stink by trash day.
Every time I opened the lid, by the end of the week, it would be gross.
At first I thought to keep a plastic bag in the sink and put the rinsed ones in there. No surprise that didn't work well.

The weekly trash was picked up this morning. I looked in the fridge and realized I had forgotten to throw out the remains of a now too old to eat roasted chicken.
So I sighed and thought "I guess I'll just put it in the freezer in a bag, like I did last time, until next trash day"



Wait.....

I facepalmed myself realizing I could just keep the rinsed cans frozen in a separate bag as well.

Doesn't anyone else put things in the freezer until you can toss it properly?

Feed the chicken to the cat instead of canned food.

I’m not going to feed food I wouldn’t feel safe eating to my pet.

That’s disgusting

So how much do you like eating cat food?

Reread what I said. Whether or not I would eat cat food has nothing to do with if it was safe to eat.

Why would anyone feed food to an animal that they didn't think was safe enough for them to eat.

To be direct, if food is going going to make me puke and/or ****, it's going to do the same to them

I have plenty of money to feed all of us healthy food.

What a jerk you are

Yes! Where I live the bins live together in a couple of compounds for the whole community

This means some people live near these bin corrals.

It is expected that you not leave really stinky stuff in bins for any length of time...so, say you have shellfish for Christmas, you’re expected to freeze it until it’s time to go in the bin.

Cans go in a can recycle bin, squished and cleaned....but the smell seems not to spread far.

Wow, that's a good system.

Oh yeah, I'll just take that bag out of the freezer Sunday night on recycle days. They are picked up pretty early Monday morning.

You left out ‘humorless asshole', but I take your point.

At the pool today, in the water.

A 5 year old girl stood on the edge maybe 10-12 feet from me.

In all seriousness, she wagged a finger at me and said. "I'm gonna jump in. If you don't want to get splashed, you better back up!"

Now that's confidence.

btw, her splash was about as big as if you threw a ping pong ball in the water.

High point of the day.

Looking through the inside windshield of my car the other day, I thought my registration renewal was due this month, 12/20

I just looked, and I realized it says 02/21

That means since my only other errand today was the drive through at the pharmacy, I can stay in my jammies.

I swear I nearly ruptured myself getting a new pot plant into my internal courtyard.

Took me two goes but I did it.!

There’s a bigger one up the road a bit that I tried moving on Friday but ‘‘twas a failure.

Tip it onto the rim and roll it.

All the soil would have fallen out.

I hear the product is good for pain. Ready to harvest?

Growing is Too much trouble, and my thumb isn’t green. Here, They offer free delivery during the pandemic.
What a country!

Maybe she meant 'potted plant'. Australia, you know.

Then again, maybe she did mean pot plant.

Using pot as a term for cannabis is archaic. That’s what they called it back in the 60s. Nobody over here calls it that anymore.

What do they call it?