OK, so, it was early Saturday afternoon and I had just completed feeding and watering my garden plants. On my patio, I have one of those cast-iron enameled flower-patterned tables that are kind of three-dimensional, and full of holes. Since earlier this Spring, I'd left a citronella candle in a little tin bucket on the table. When it rained, or when I hosed down the patio, it would get water in it and I'd dump it out. Yesterday was no different (or was it?).
I noticed the candle was watery, and proceeded to dump it out thru the table--until the moment I realized I was seeing more and more of the wick, and that it WASN'T water: The candle had liquefied in the sun and I was dumping molten wax over the table and onto the concrete floor...several ounces of it. Of course, immediately upon hitting the concrete, it solidified. Only solution I could think of (other than a wire brush--which I don't own) was to lay paper towels over the wax, plug in my iron, and melt the wax into the towels.
I brought my aluminum-framed folding chair out, and spent the next couple hours ironing the patio floor. The wax was also profusely all over the top and legs of the table. At one point, trying to reach underneath the table after another wax blob, I sort of twisted and leaned to my left. Apparently, I leaned too far or too awkwardly, because at that moment one of the metal cross bars that formed the legs of the chair snapped in half at the bolt, and the chair collapsed with me in it, folding the arms forward around me like a make-shift straight jacket (which may reasonably be suggested I needed after the day I was having.) So, there I lay on the concrete floor, doing my best Harry Houdini impersonation, struggling to wriggle out of the grasp of the chair like I was in some off-brand Stephen King story about being eaten by your lawn furniture. I did finally get out, continued my ironing past sunset, and, only slightly bruised, retired to my living room for a PB&J a mere seven-and-a-half hours later than I'd originally expected.
So, anyway: How's YOUR week-end going?