Today we went walking along the beach and plopped our beach chairs surf side to enjoy a moment of sunshine and the cool ocean breeze. When I sat down, I noticed I had a glob of tar near the heal of my foot. And since I had forgotten to wear my "official beach shoes," I was going to have a very hard time getting the tar glob off.
While seated I frequently rubbed my heal in the sand. No help at all.
So, when I got home, I Googled "remove tar foot" and saw two suggestions:
- use olive oil and a toothbrush
- use regular white (not gel) toothpaste on a wet washcloth
All of the toothpaste here at the house is gel; so, I got the olive oil out and the tiny new toothbrush my dentist gave me when I had my teeth last cleaned. The tedious process took about 20 minutes, but it worked. Below are the pictures documenting the trauma. Consider this my own personal exhibit of "Crude Awakening" that I blogged about before.
The tar (combined with the beach sand) becomes hard and is completely stuck to the skin. I couldn't even scrape it off with a sea shell. It has the dank tar smell.
The Tar Glob Proper
The Tools for the Procedure
Twenty Minutes Later 
This is quite the week for tar. The city of Manhattan Beach is in the process of redoing the slurry on the streets (that black tar goo with little tiny pebbles in it). They just did the two streets by the house. It's incredibly messy. The workers also got black tar on the grass by the side of the house. Not happy as that oil spill will probably kill the grass.
Oil is gushing freely into the Gulf of Mexico today as BP is trying to cap the well again. And I just read an article online about the potential of a massive methane gas bubble from all of the methane gushing from the well in the Gulf (40% is methane gas and 60% is oil) rising from the Gulf and causing the extinction of all life on earth as methane gas is deadly. She claims the sea floor around the gushing well is rising for about a 5 mile radius. I hope the author is a crackpot. If not, at least BP was kind enough to only kill all life on one planet in the solar system.
Check out the link at the bottom for a more detailed description of the methane gas theory including a link to the original article.
But the greatest tragedy of all was the realization that I have lived here in Manhattan Beach for about 2.5 years now, and today was the first time I've actually sat out on the beach. That will be rectified this summer!
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