They make the grass start to grow after a summer of blistering drought, so that you have to get out your lawn mower in January and do the yard just so it doesn’t start to get overgrown, especially the sticky willie, which looks like it will make a bumper crop this spring.
And then doing the lawn gets you so excited that you get out your brand-new chain saw for the first time and, after time out to clean up the spilled oil*, chop up the logs left from The Shedding Tree throwing itself through the roof almost two years ago. You also make a mental note not to tell the nice people at the blood bank, whom you’d seen only that morning and who had warned you not to lift anything heavy for the rest of the day, that you have been tossing around chunks of log weighing fifty to a hundred pounds each.
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*This is occasioned by some Bright Young Thing at the chain saw factory packing a quart bottle of bar oil head down in the case, so the entire bottle leaked out and spread itself all over everything, causing yet more time out to grab a bottle of detergent and the hose and have a washing party in very cold yard water.
A complicated chicken farmer makes the nervous cargo. Fnord.
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