GasMan

Sprouts for me too.

Brandy

Buttermilk

Minneapolis Lakers

I had one get away from me here years ago. I was burning a fair size brush pile. We had had light rain for the past two days so I figured I could just get it kind of smoldering and let it burn slow.

I went inside my shop to work on something for about an hour (my fault all the way) and when I came out to check on it it had creeped over into my neighbor's pine tree lot and the needles were going. What the hell, the ground was fairly damp.

I ran to call the county FD.

Well it was a holiday for sure. My place was behind a gate with a line of trees along the road, so I guess the fire dept guys figured it was a good chance to see what was back there. Guys showed up with their wives and kids in their vehicles and pretty soon there's redneck kids running all over and some of them were throwing a football. If they had known I had a pond I'm sure some of them would have brought fishing poles. Several of the wives stood around in clusters chatting and laughing. I could almost swear I saw a wine box.

The chief had the guys put on backpacks and they had it out in just a few minutes. One punk kid came up to me and said "It's too dry to be burning." I said boy it's been raining the last two days. I apologized profusely to the chief and thanked him profusely as well. I don't think anybody minded. They had a big time of it.

Once they were sure all clear they rounded up kids and everybody reluctantly got back in their vehicles and drove away.

I expected to get a bill in the mail but never heard anything else about it.

Life in rural Mississippi.

The long, slow spiral continues.

I have been to a couple of the plant sales in there. Great place, lots of ghosts. Got a cold drink and went and sat in the stands and took it in for a few minutes.

IIRC, when Will Wade was here (oh boy here we go) it seemed like there was some preliminary talk of having a throwback game there but nothing ever came of it.

Frankly I find it surprising that any of them were able to last 3 months without income.

Argentina or Uruguay.

fricking Burger King
Left football team in shambles
LSU called Lane

Fidel Ulloa

I can see the need.

Hell in 1981 or '82 my high school band marched in the Contraband Days parade in Lake Charles. It was a damn shite show, to use an expression we had not heard yet.

There were drunks all down the route having to be cleared out of the way or stumbling into the formation. Once or twice a drunk tried to run his hands over one of the flag girls.

Assholes aimed cigarette and cigar butts at the tuba bells, they were nasty as hell when the parade was over.

Even as an immature teenager who thought I was the shite, I was kind of shocked at the fricking behavior we saw.

All the parents said, Never Again!