Little stay’cay happanin

A few weeks back I tripped iver a ginormous brake drum from a semi. Wore out of spec so total junk, but hey, one doods junk might be this doods next project.

So theres the drum, and I have this irritating bush in my yard: elephant grass. It was interesting the first couple of years, and rather fun as kittens were growing, since they found that jungle bush to be the equivalent of a jungle gym, and playing pounce? Oh happyhappyjoyjoy’ssss

Well, the kittens are now KATS, and hormones and age have added a new happy happy joy joy to thier world,,,,

Kitteh Porn

Grizzy even has a girlfriend over at Unks house. Cutey little black n white stump tail,,, found out he has been hanging over there with her everyday while I am gone,,, and explains where he dissappears to after I get in and he has said his greetings and done the stroppies on shins.

Brake drum, elephant grass, get back on subject,,,

Every winter, I burn that bush. Not to kill it but to make it grow back stronger. Some (many ) plants like wildfire emulation so their seeds will germinate. This’un is that way. And you want to talk about a HOT fire, cripes!!! I tie the bloody thing up to keep it contained to some extent, light a small section on the windward side and GET THE F@#K AWAY!!! In less tha 5 minutes what remains is a pile of ash an embers.

Like I said, getting a little sick of it, its getting too daggum big and is quite close to house so burning it is starting to get a little worrisome,,, so I hacked the remaining mound apart with a machete, planted that brake drum atop it and have been burning it out with sustained fires that should destroy whats there. And sitting out the last couple of nights, around my ‘camp fire’,,, even Mama has taken to laying out there, nearby, but not TOO close.

But not the boys,,, those hormones are all a rage and when they do come home, its kitteh puddles with huge ‘do not disturb ‘ signs posted about. Zooms even slept through the neighbor coming over for a minute,,,, didn’t twitch a single whisker or earflap,,, (and Zooms is the one I will probably lose soonest, he roams farther, and is showing signs of battle. I found him near the shop a couple weeks back, and know it was him: I called his name when he ‘dukked’ and his head popped up out of cover, then skeddaddled like ‘Shit!!! Busted!!!’. The shop is a half mile away in a straight line, so he’s been making tracks.)

And this weather!!! Seven days total time, went from flipping ZERO DEGREEES with freeze your face off windchills, to fiftynine/fortytwo,,,, and it was sitting at fiftysix at dusk. Damn near balmy after last weekend,,,,

River still has some ice on it, at least near the shorelines. Haven’t been to the lake yet so dunno how bad/good it is. But a warm weekend (water will still be cold, but no ice on ramps,,,) and Dio is jonesing for a kayak-y fix,,,,