Take cover!
7 11 2010Jake bought a new car about a month ago, a Honda civic to use for commuting to school. In the trunk, where the spare tire should have been, he found two plastic shoe boxes of old (emphasis on OLD) ammunition of various calibers, all of it corroded and greenish. I took the boxes and placed them in our horse trailer – our depository for garbage. The burnables go into old feed sacks, and everything else (glass, metal, plastic) gets taken to the transfer station when the trailer is full.
Today we burned garbage. I put Jake in charge because he’s a pyro. Can you see where we’re going with this?
I saw him headed across the pasture to the burn area with the tractor bucket heaped. It didn’t look like feed sacks, so I walked out to see where he’d gotten it. Junk from the trailer that he mistook for the burnables.
He couldn’t hear me yelling over the diesel tractor engine.
He dumped the bucket just as I yelled.
The bullets started flying about 2 seconds later.
Pandemonium as he baled off the tractor and behind the bucket. I simply dropped to the ground and tried hard to become one with the earth.
No one was injured, but we laughed about it pretty hard. We’re sick people.
It was probably karma for burning all those old milk jugs.
GOOD GOD! I’m glad nobody was killed. Seriously. love, V
O.M.G!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That sounds like something my middle son would do….and sometimes all you can do is drop to the ground and wait for it to be over
Glad all were safe!
Woo Hoo! BTDT, glad nobody has holes in them… but keep your eyes open around the farm, you might be amazed at how far some of the shrapnel can fly and how much oomph it still has on impact!
I thought stuff like that only happened at my house!
Glad to see you posting again!
Glad you are still finding humor in life and that at least one kid is hanging around to add to the show. Love them babies some, they are precious.
Miss your posts!
I second Beth G. And hope all is well and the grandbabies are bringing you much joy!