Oh, do what my father did one year. Instead of disc-ing our garden area, he decided to burn it. Though it was Spring, and the cover grass was green, there was plenty of dead grass underneath. He starts tossing matches. My brother looked and asked him what he was doing. No words have become more immortal than, “Shut up S., I know what I am doing!”. Then the dead grass took. He starts yelling at my brother and I to get the hose. We get the hose, which was fed by a 100 year old gravity irrigation system. We get him those hose, we turn on the water, and I am here to type that an 80 year old man with prostate problems pee pees harder than the water coming out of the hose. Running out of dead grass, the mini wild fire hits the baseball diamond sized blackberry patch. So dense, an old home was literally hidden inside. (It was on our neighbor’s property. It had belonged to a Japanese family who lost it during The War.) The home had been empty for 35 years. So he eradicated the blackberries, and the home. All the while the sounds of sirens are faintly heading our way. The volunteer fire department puts the fire out. The chief asks old Pops what happened? He starts explaining, he is doing fine, until he points to my brother and I and blames us for not having water ready. But, being our Father instead of being fined, the volunteers wrote it off as their mandatory training day. Our neighbor sends a claim in for the abandoned home, he receives a check for $35,000 +/-. So go ahead, slash and burn those weeds.
Thank you, but I don’t even remember what all I have put on there. I myself, like to refer to it as being bat shit crazy. 
or as being a Crafty Bitch 
I don’t have a lick of sense in my head but I do like learning and creating things. I haven’t figured out if it’s meditation or mental masturbation but it makes me happy. 
Wow! We don’t have any blackberies but I’m afraid that’s exactly what would happen. We have bee brush. If it got over the fence the whole hood would up like roman candle.
In wetter years I have burned it off and truth be told, it would probably do it good but… it is way too dry right now. They did lift the burn ban but I’m skeered.
That was absolutely fantastic story.
Sending you a BIG hug and lots of prayers. 
Where you at Chicken ?
I’m wondering the same …
Running around like my head’s been cut off.
It always gets busy for me this time of year. My peeps always need a little extra. We are at the finish line.
All the baked goods made and delivered. All their presents wrapped and under the tree. Still on critter duty ( feed the horse and the cats) until next week though.
3 batches of caramel, two batches of cookies, turtles, divinty, honeycomb candy.
Had a good food pantry workout last Friday. We didn’t have a lot of produce… except potatoes. We had plenty of 50lb bags of potatoes, and we gave them all out. Pinched the nerve in my shoulder but it was okay by Sun.
Now, if I can get all my laundy done, my house cleaned, and one more trip to the store today, I think we will be ready tomorrow. Maybe.
Bless their hearts Amazon came through and got Jed’s present here before Christmas! That poor FedEx guy earned his money. I got Jed an upgraded trampoline this year. It weighs 192 lbs in two boxes. He shouldered that bad boy and packed across the yard. I was impressed! The last dude barely got my got Oly bar to the gate. My mom said she thought she was going to have go out there and pack it for him
Since you are from the future… Merry Christmas 
Merry Christmas Chicken, love to you and the family.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Chicken! 
Merry Christmas!!!
To all my T Nation family. Y’all are have been with me through thick and thin. When I talk to people and say “my friend on the forum” said blah, blah. I mean it! Friends are the best gift. Hope everyone of you have the best Christmas ever!
Merry Christmas!
Made some more turtles with just pecans, and since I had extra brazil nuts, walnuts, and pecans, I toasted them and threw them in some caramel. And… I still have caramel left.
Ugh!
Going dip the nutty ones in chocolate and take some to the dudes at the local gas station because they have to work today. They deserve to be in a diabetic coma too!
(Yeah, I’m lazy and didn’t want to make another batch of triple nut candy.)
Then it’s off to the China Wok for lunch. I love this new tradition.
I kinda wish we were neighbors. Lol.
Merry Christmas. I got fatter just looking at that. Well done.
Me too!
We could eat your yummy treats and then go lift away the calories!
Merry Christmas to you and Jed!! I hope you two had a wonderful day!!