Sourdough Monster

I decided to try making a sourdough starter. Now you have to understand that I generally haven't cooked a whole lot in my lifetime and I haven't played with sourdough other than the Amish Friendship Bread that gets passed around for awhile. I have found several recipes for the starter here lately and since I've been experimenting with baking bread I thought I'd give it a whirl.

Easy right? Wrong. Well, mixing it up was. So was leaving it to bubble and ferment in a warm spot. I mixed the flour, water, yeast, and sugar. I put it in a container above my stove since I knew it would be warm in the cupbard there. I was making Navy bean and ham soup. I went into the living room with Bear and vaccuumed or something that took a little bit of time, but not tons. When I went back into the kitchen to stir the soup there was some sort of dough on my teapot. I couldn't remember spilling any while I was putting the starter up. I looked up and when I opened the cupboard I found this:

This was Bear watching me clean up the mess. He wasn't too sure about the crazy growing stuff. Neither was I to be honest. At least I was able to rescue most of the starter. We'll see if I can make bread with it. At least I know my yeast is good.