Thursday, August 22, 2013

Thud!

Every now and again the floor quivers slightly.

It's because Broad Ripple's famous singing tree hippie is up with his chain saw taking chunks off the top of the dead silver maple out front and they plummet to the earth below with a ground-shaking *THUD!*

I pretend it's because the Boche are shelling the lines near our bunker. ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.
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Anonymous said...

All is quiet on the western front.

Gerry

11:54 AM, August 22, 2013
global village idiot said...

From the desk of Tamara Mitty.

gvi

12:28 PM, August 22, 2013
NotClauswitz said...

My dad used to climb the old acacia to lop off huge limbs that fell with a thunderous *THUD* and left a dent in the dirt.
All I do is raise the "skirt" on a small redwood.

12:28 PM, August 22, 2013
mikee said...

I had a full-grown silver maple go dead in a hard winter at my home some years back. It made the best firewood I have ever experienced.

Don't let it go to waste! Even firewood-length trunk pieces make great turned bowls, solid trugs and primitive butter molds, if you know a woodworker.

I'd advertise it on Craigslist and see if you can't convert some of it, in trade, into a work of art or two.

12:29 PM, August 22, 2013
Rob K said...

mikee, are you sure that was silver maple and not sugar maple? Sugar maple makes good wood. Silver maple is really brittle crap. It dies and breaks off easily. It's not very good for firewood. The only reason anyone plants it is because it grows quickly.

1:31 PM, August 22, 2013
Sherm said...

You can use it as an excuse to reread Terry Pratchett's book by the same name.

2:22 PM, August 22, 2013
pax said...

Love the Thurber reference.

3:42 PM, August 22, 2013
Dwight Brown said...

This might be a good time to give your Webley-Vickers 50.80 a good cleaning.

3:50 PM, August 22, 2013
Paul said...

If you start digging a trench in the front yard......

5:35 PM, August 22, 2013
Joseph said...

I'll bring the SMLEs.....

7:42 PM, August 22, 2013
Frank W. James said...

You must be thinking during the early years of the war because from 1917 on those 'Thuds' would have been every milisecond during an artillery barrage.

I'm reading a bunch of books about WWI now because next year is the Centennial Anniversay of that Stupidity.

As wars go (and all wars are stupid) WWI achieved the absolute maximum in governmental, military and social stupidity that in my opinion has yet to be reached....unless, of course, you include ObamaCare...

All The Best,
Frank W. James

7:47 PM, August 22, 2013
Tam said...

Frank,

Allow me to recommend Eye-Deep in Hell and British Butchers & Bunglers of World War One.

7:58 PM, August 22, 2013
global village idiot said...

Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the Great War by Gordon Corrigan

gvi

8:34 PM, August 22, 2013
Old NFO said...

As long as the 'incoming' stays short rounds, you're okay... :-)

8:49 PM, August 22, 2013
Ed said...

Boche en bois, eh?

11:46 PM, August 22, 2013
global village idiot said...

Am I the ONLY one who got the Walter Mitty reference?!

What a world...

gvi

WV: xporated (adj). Word used by BMV and Lake County (IN) worker bees, syn: expired. I'm sorry sir, yo' permit done xporated las' week.

12:32 PM, August 23, 2013
Drang said...

GVI: Wasn't much point to mentioning it after you and pax did.

The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I

12:48 PM, August 23, 2013

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