Magnolia
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Witzzo's Conscience[/B]
I'm a shell of a woman
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Post by Magnolia on Jan 2, 2006 14:48:42 GMT -6
This spring we won't have to mow about 1/2 of the 2+ acres we usually have to every year. No, we didn't sell our house. We already have a pool (which I hope makes it). So, what has been discovered at the Wittzo house???
FIRE!
"I'm going to take the trash to the burn pile, but I'm not going to light it because it's too windy" was the sentence I heard from Wittzo just a few minutes before I heard the children screaming. I ran outside to find my 5 children up on the trampoline screaming for their lives as fire rushes toward the trampoline, the pool, and the house.
After surveying the situation, I got the children inside and reminded Wittzo of his earlier remark.
Good thing everything goes with black..............
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Post by granny2young on Jan 2, 2006 17:05:59 GMT -6
oh my goodness! That could have been awful. I am glad everyone is safe and sound, except maybe wittzo. He would be sporting a new black hmmmm mark on his head  |
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Magnolia
TF Part Timer
Witzzo's Conscience[/B]
I'm a shell of a woman
Posts: 72
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Post by Magnolia on Jan 2, 2006 17:48:42 GMT -6
I need to sew a black "S" onto his clothing. "S" for shame!
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Post by granny2young on Jan 2, 2006 18:54:27 GMT -6
I was thinking "S" for stu......oh well something else, but shame will work too, lol. Sorry wit, you deserved that one.
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Post by TF Admin on Jan 2, 2006 22:07:30 GMT -6
Magnolia...you received a blessing from me today...for having to put up with..you know...him.
TFADMIN
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Post by wittzo on Jan 3, 2006 8:44:03 GMT -6
...At least it's not on Google Earth and gasoline wasn't involved.
It's one of those situations where it seemed like a good idea at the time. I was on autopilot. Grab some bags of rubbish, grab the lighter (seconds after I said I was NOT going to burn anything because of the wind), ignite the rubbish.
Everything was doing fine, the fire was almost burned down until a lone cinder blew away and ignited a patch of leaves and dead grass about 20 feet toward the house. By the time I got a rake, the patch was 5 X 20. My hose splitter broke off at the nozzle, when I got to the edge of the fire, my hose spit with no pressure. I had to run back and undo the hose and reattach it to the spigot. As I was running back, the hose cart turned over so I had to run back and set it upright. When Magnolia came out the second time to scream at me unconstructively help, I ran out of hose. I was beating at the fire at the edge of the field while yelling at her to attach the other hose to the end...
I had my mind on two things: Getting the fire out and under control and cursing my stupidity..I'm turning into my father on a daily basis both physically and mentally.
I'm starting to think that it wouldn't be a bad idea to move away and live in a little trailer all by myself in the middle of nowhere, ala The Unabomber. That way I'm not a danger to anyone but myself...
About gasoline and rubbish fires..Right after the store opened, I saw one of my brother's friends. His arms and face were all covered in bandages. I asked him what had happened and he said,"I was going to show my boys how to use gasoline to burn rubbish. I threw the gas on the pile. Right when I did, the wind blew the gas back on me and a spark ignited at the same time. I won't do that again."
Hopefully his boys won't ever do it either, but if they are like me and my father, history is doomed to repeat itself...
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Post by Pontotocmom on Jan 5, 2006 8:04:41 GMT -6
Wittzo, your ideal of lawn care and my husbands is the same thing. We had 3 firetrucks at our house and the fire jumped the road and got on the neighbors yard. I guess he was helping the neighbors out too.
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Post by wittzo on Jan 6, 2006 7:09:29 GMT -6
Lewis Grizzard always suggested to his first wife(and then his second and so on) that they could save a lot of money on gas and mower maintenance if they just sprayed Roundup instead... In order to distract you from our stupidity, I'll throw this out there. Lawns are unnatural and not part of the native fauna. Rich Victorians developed the idea since they had a lot of cheap labor available. Out West they are setting up lawns with just plain dirt to minimize water use. There are even companies that will Astro-turf your yard. The Indians (the woo woo kind) used to burn out underbrush to clear the forest floor to make it easier to hunt and farm. I imagine there might have been a guy named Burned-Huts-Down and his best friends were Good-Old-Boy and Hold-My-Beer. |
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Post by Pontotocmom on Jan 6, 2006 7:53:34 GMT -6
I believe I know all three of those Indians.  |
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Post by rockinrickus on Apr 19, 2006 13:33:06 GMT -6
...At least it's not on Google Earth and gasoline wasn't involved. It's one of those situations where it seemed like a good idea at the time. I was on autopilot. Grab some bags of rubbish, grab the lighter (seconds after I said I was NOT going to burn anything because of the wind), ignite the rubbish. Everything was doing fine, the fire was almost burned down until a lone cinder blew away and ignited a patch of leaves and dead grass about 20 feet toward the house. By the time I got a rake, the patch was 5 X 20. My hose splitter broke off at the nozzle, when I got to the edge of the fire, my hose spit with no pressure. I had to run back and undo the hose and reattach it to the spigot. As I was running back, the hose cart turned over so I had to run back and set it upright. When Magnolia came out the second time to scream at me unconstructively help, I ran out of hose. I was beating at the fire at the edge of the field while yelling at her to attach the other hose to the end... I had my mind on two things: Getting the fire out and under control and cursing my stupidity..I'm turning into my father on a daily basis both physically and mentally. I'm starting to think that it wouldn't be a bad idea to move away and live in a little trailer all by myself in the middle of nowhere, ala The Unabomber. That way I'm not a danger to anyone but myself... About gasoline and rubbish fires..Right after the store opened, I saw one of my brother's friends. His arms and face were all covered in bandages. I asked him what had happened and he said,"I was going to show my boys how to use gasoline to burn rubbish. I threw the gas on the pile. Right when I did, the wind blew the gas back on me and a spark ignited at the same time. I won't do that again." Hopefully his boys won't ever do it either, but if they are like me and my father, history is doomed to repeat itself... Sound's like a no Brainer to me, wittzo you take the cake. i'm glad no one was hurt, but this is funny, knowing wittzo. ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by wittzo on Apr 19, 2006 19:05:19 GMT -6
It did make it real easy to find brass from when I shoot... ;D
The yard looks normal now.
I didn't think I would ever get the smell out of my clothes. Having your eyebrows sound like Velcro when you blink doesn't feel too good, either...
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