Sea Creatures

I learned a very painful lesson this week:

Never bring sea creatures into your home.

Yesterday I came home from the beach to find a horrible smell in my bedroom. I recognized it as the smell of dried ocean, but with something rotten added. I checked the shells that I had gathered the day before, and found to my dismay that the most beautiful one was the source of the smell. Can you believe that? One little shell was smelling up the entire room. I always try to make sure there are no sea creatures living in the shells that I pick up, but I guess this one was tucked away so far back that I couldn't see it. I couldn't pull the dead animal out with my tweezers so I ended up just putting the shell in the flower bed in the front yard. This is very sad because I was so excited when I found this shell.

This morning I woke up to the same smell, except this time it was worse. I don't know what I did wrong but somehow the barnacles died in their jar of seawater. Seriously? Six little barnacles smelling up my entire room? I tried to go back to sleep because I was so tired, but the smell was too horrible. On a positive note, this means that I don't have to decide what to do with them anymore because now they are dead (which ironically is exactly what I was trying to avoid in the first place). I put their poor little carcasses and their styrofoam substrate in the trash and took it outside.

On top of it all, I had my glasses sitting next to the jar of barnacles, and now my glasses smelled horrible. I tried washing them with soap and water with no success. I had to go across the street to buy some baking soda and a toothbrush. Fortunately about ten minutes of scrubbing did the trick, and now I am able to wear my glasses again.

Anyway, don't bring sea creatures into your home.

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  1. UnknownOctober 28, 2017 at 5:02 PM

    You are describing the miracle of life.
    DNA is able to assemble amino acids, which individually smell HORRIBLE, into
    proteins which become snails, turtles, barnacles, and babies, which are MIRACLES.
    Then when we all die, our parts once again stink to high heaven. That's why God
    provided a pathway to resurrection (see I Peter 3:18). He doesn't like stink either!

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