(A Double) Friday Funnies

My friend Christy (who is a super-talented artist and decorater) sent us today's Friday Funny. It reminded me of something that might happen to Nicole.

Back here on Monday,

Janelle for my mom and sisters

I don't have any great decorating ideas that come to mind, but I do have a funny story that immediately came to mind at the mention of 'centerpieces' and 'fall.'

Last fall, on a particularly lovely fall day, I took my kids outside on a walk. As we passed under the oak trees, my kids started picking up acorns and of course asked if they could bring some home. Inspiration struck--I had this large glass votive urn that I had been wanting to fill with something for fall. Why of course...acorns!  Why hadn't I thought of that? So the kids and I gathered up a whole bunch of acorns and brought them home.  We filled the glass urn about half-way up with acorns and then nestled a pillar candle inside. To finish off the centerpiece we surrounded the urn with several small gourds.  Perfect!  We lit the candle for dinner that night and told Daddy about how we made it together.  The kids loved it, and I loved it too...until about 2 or 3 days later.  We sat down to dinner, I reached to light the candle and nearly screamed.  The votive was FILLED with tiny maggoty worms!  And I mean filled. Talk about a nasty dinner time experience!  Braden had pity on me and emptied it outside for me. I think I let bleach-water sit in that urn for about 3 days afterwards before I washed it clean. Happy fall decorating! But whatever you do to decorate, just a warning: don't use acorns from off the ground.

Update: 3:01 P.M. Received this e-mail in response to today's Friday Funny. Believe it or not, her name is Nicole! (not our Nicole) 

Friday Funny - NOT funny, but definitely appreciated!
It WOULD have been funny, if it had not made me think, Huh, maybe I should go check my own vase full of acorns sitting on my dining room table AND HAS BEEN FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS. Since it's in the dining room, we don't sit there for dinner often. I was thinking, surely I won't see anything - it's been there for two weeks. WRONG. Right off I spotted a maggot worm crawling across the top of the acorn pile. GAG. Rinsed it out, and several "passed on" worms were at the bottom. So while I did not currently find HUMOR in today's post due to my own subsequent experience, I VERY MUCH appreciate it - because otherwise I would have discovered it the next time we DID sit at that table...most likely with COMPANY! (give me a couple of days... I'm sure I'll laugh then!)