FOTD Facepalm Of The Day thread

$10 tree 🤦

Ok, contributing this beauty to the thread...replacing a worn intermediate wheel on a movement, pulled out a new wheel, and found this:



In the event that the problem is not immediately obvious, here it beside another new (but correct) wheel:



It begs the question...where are my pinion leaves?

can’t believe I have been missing so many great deals on Etsy 😜

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The other day my wife was cooking something on the BBQ (which we have connected to our main gas line - got tired of running out of propane) and as she always does she turns the main valve off, rather than the burners on the unit. I went out to close up the BBQ and in a brain fart I turned the valve on again, and closed the lid, picked up the tongs and came inside.

Next day she noticed a smell of natural gas, and called me out to check. Followed the smell around to the back of the house and right to the BBQ. It had been pouring out the burners all night and part of the next day...

We had a fire in a older BBQ when we first moved into the house we are in now. We were making salsa all day, and since all the burners inside were being used for the salsa and sterilizing the jars before filling, we were using the BBQ for the boiling water bath for processing the jars after filling. Very late in the day after many hours of it running, I went out to remove some jars from the pan and saw flames - the knobs had melted off completely and the hose leading to the propane tank was burning down towards the tank like a wick...

I ran and grabbed a chemical fire extinguisher, and as I was running back to the deck I pulled the pin and accidentally squeezed some off in the house - that stuff gets everywhere. 😲 I stepped out onto the deck and it had started to rain, and I slipped and fell flat on my arse. Got up put out the fire, but everything was so hot I really felt I had to turn off the tank or it would reignite. I can still remember reaching in to turn the tank off, cringing just waiting for it to blow up in my face.

It didn't, and after it was closed and I shut the patio doors, my wife asked if it was safe now. I said I think so, but she wanted to call the fire department to see what else we should do. She called and specifically stated that the fire was out, but we wanted to know if there was anything else we needed to do. The fire department is a local volunteer department, with many of the people in our neighbourhood members, and the fire hall is maybe 1.5 kms from our house. The person on the phone said they would call and have someone just come over and check it out for us. Next thing we hear sirens and the engine pulls up in front of our house with everyone in their gear like the house is burning down.

We had been in the house for maybe a month or so, so the good thing was we got a chance to meet a lot more of ours neighbours as they all came running to see what was going on...😀

A fledgling house sparrow was found floating in a water bowl inside the chicken run Sunday afternoon. I fished it out, saw that it was still alive and took it in the house to revive it. Mrs noelekal took over and carefully dried it, made a special sparrow drying devise out of a large paper grocery sack, placed it inside with some small bird seed to much.

Late afternoon, it was lively and rarin' to go. I thought to place it in some shrubbery at the hose next door where it could have cover. She said we needed to put it back where we found it because birdie mothers keep an eye out and will find their young. I said it'll be more risky because of the cats, but she insisted.

The bird was released inside the chicken run. It immediately popped out the side of the chicken run wire, fluttered all the way across the driveway to the carport and went under the car where Mrs. noelekal's cat Felix was already waiting on it. He pounced, chomped and that was it.

One reason why cats should be kept inside.

http://www.ace-eco.org/vol8/iss2/art11/