This picture is blurry…that I took a picture at all is only because I am committed to blogging daily.

This is a watermelon…a watermelon left out of the fridge too long. I meant to put it in, but I was short on space, and since I only bought it on a Monday, and it was Friday, thought everything was hunky-dory. Not….

Do you see how flattened out on the bottom it is, and the stream of viscous fluid on the floor? Actually, I didn’t notice anything amiss in the look of it, I noticed a smell of something decaying.

I stood looking down on it for a moment trying to decide what to do, but then noticed the fluid was near the heating vent right behind the collapsed melon.

I grabbed a bucket for disposal and picked the melon up…BIG MISTAKE…

Yes, I really hate to admit I was that unwise. The entire contents of the inner melon were liquified. I should have tried to scoop it up onto a snow shovel. And yes…the awful smelling mess did go down the vent.

Unfortunately, in my agitation (panic) I didn’t think and grabbed a few of the biggest towels I could find…yes, our bath towels. It took several launderings to get the smell out.

I put the rotten melon in the compost bin where it belonged.

Of course, cleaning up the floor, and even worse the vent, was a terrible job. And…I almost got my arm stuck at the elbow joint in the vent. We’ll see what remains of the smell when the heat comes on. Hopefully, by then it will be dried up and nothing but a distant blog post.