By Friday I was ready to have some time off and was looking forward to getting a project completed on the farm. I usually spend Fridays cleaning the house. It allows me to spend all weekend outside. I knew we could not cut hay as it had just rained the day before. So instead I worked on the bathrooms, kitchen and floors. The puppy, Milo and I went all over the house. We are working on getting him to follow one of us around when we are present.

I picked up and then realized that I needed to do something with those hot peppers that I had dried over the winter on the breeze porch. They felt dry and had been up there for eight months so I figured I could just use a mortar and pestle to grind them up. Nope, they were not crunchy dry. So I broke out the food processor, broke them off their stems and filled the entire food processor. I fired that bad boy up and this fine powder started to leak out everywhere. My nose started to run and my voice started to change. I had some big chunks around 1/4” that would not break up so I poured all of the powder and chunks into a quart jar with a screen lid. We have those for growing sprouts.

The wife called while I was trying to wash up and clean the food processor. I could not talk and my nose started to run like a raging spring runoff creek. She was trying to carry on a conversation on the phone and I had her on speaker phone. She thought I was dying and I was unable to voice any reassurances. I finally managed to get everything rinsed off and tossed into the dishwasher. I started the dishwasher up despite it only being half full. That noxious powder needed a different home.

I took the quart jar and put it in our new food drying for 16 hours then on Sunday I poured it all back into the food processor. This time I took that sticky food wrap and put it around all the seams on the food processor. I also filled a sarge metal bowl with hot soapy water so I could immediately immerse the dirty contaminated food processor into water to cut down the dust. This time I let it run for a few minutes and those little chunks broke up. I dumped it out into two small containers and then dumped the food processor into the soapy water. I only hacked and gagged a little bit the second time. I am unsure what to do with the killer powder now. But I have it!