Disappearing Owls

We've been making a lot of good progress with sorting through boxes, throwing away stuff, and giving things away. Last Saturday, Richard's daughter came over and hauled away a pickup load of stuff that we didn't want anymore. Some of it was probably worthless, but other things were very nice items like oil lamps and glassware...but then we already have plenty of those things.

In the process of going through boxes, Richard found some white owl figurines. They were bought by his mother, so he decided to keep them and clean them up. He wanted to put them in the dishwasher, but his daughter and I didn't think that was necessarily a good idea. He went ahead and did it anyway.

After the dishwasher was finished, he was unloading the dishes and was complaining that the soap he used didn't work. Everything had a film on it and needed to be wiped out...and then he made a discovery. In the bottom of a mug was an eyeball!

The eyeball was from one of the owls, but there was no sign of the owls in the dishwasher or of any other eyeballs. A closer inspection of the dishwasher revealed only a few small pieces of the owls which would disintegrate when touched. So, the mystery of the film on all the dishes and glasses was solved. It wasn't the soap it was the remains of the owls! Oops!!!

We had a really good laugh over that one. Who knows what the material was that the owls were made of -- probably some type of resin or something like that. His mother had some birds made of a similar material, but they'll be cleaned by hand...