No, I’m not referring to the market for the past four months. It has to do with a Christmas gift. See, my kids know I like Bob Ross, so one of them got me a Bob Ross chia pet. The idea is that you slather a bunch of wet chia seeds all over his hair area, and in a week, he’s got a cool bushy green afro. But I thought the little bust of Bob was fine as-is, so I just spray painted it white (it starts off as that reddish-brown of ceramic pots) and just put him in my office.
But what to do with this packet of chia seeds? Well, I thought it would be funny to mix the entire packet in water, as the instructions stated, and smear it on top of the Buddha statue in our fish pond so that it would have a really cool green afro. Nice gag, huh?
Well, as you may have read, it’s been raining very hard in California, and the chia seed sludge didn’t stay on top of Buddha’s head. In fact, it slid down so that just about no seeds were in the hair area. And now that the seeds are growing, let’s just say it’s awfully disturbing:
