She said the prompt is ‘wood/ would’ and I thought woodchuck would. How bout you?
I don’t know anything about woodchucks.
I do know I slept well and there’s coffee and if I needed to chuck wood, I reckon I could muster the energy, but I probably wouldn’t, because I love all the wood in the house. The wood outside the house is another story. Fallen branches litter the lawn. It’s time to play pick-up-sticks again and nobody wants to. Even our dog doesn’t like sticks. She didn’t like toys until I got down on the floor and played bow with her. She didn’t like raw carrots until she saw me eating one.
Apparently, if you stand in the kitchen and chomp on a raw carrot, people can’t help themselves and say, “What’s up, Doc?”
If carrots fell of all the trees in our lot, I feel certain I’d be more motivated to pick them up. I suppose I could teach my dog to collect branches by crawling around on the lawn, picking up the sticks with my own mouth, but I won’t. Ya gotta draw a line somewhere.
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I do think you could get Sadie to pick them up. If we told Maddie not to do it, or, apparently, if I put a little fence around each stick, she’d crawl under and steal the stick. The motivation to do what one shouldn’t do is strong in that one.
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LMAO! I bet you’re right!
I think I could teach Sadie, absolutely, but I’m even less interested in that than I am in pickin up sticks!
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Is teaching the Mr. any easier?
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I hadda think about it, but Yes.
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I can be told to do anything, but doing it on my own is a different story.
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Well I’m not gonna start takin the trash out just because I know how, if that’s what you mean. 😉
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Yes lines must be drawn. What does chucking wood even mean? Is it chewing? If it is chewing isn’t that beaver territory?
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Well I think in the rhyme it is, but I use chuck for throwing out, how bout you?
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Yeah. I use the word in that context as well. So a woodchuck is a wood thrower. But they have such little arms.
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LOL you know more about woodchucks than I do, then!
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But, remember…. T-rex had little bitty arms for the size of the rest of the body!
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Our lawn is also covered in sticks and decayed leaves and acorns galore. The squirrels love it though, so I am reluctant to pick it up.
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I understand. I also aim to please my critters! 😀
If we don’t stay up on it, though, we’ll have to spend an entire day doing it before the mow.
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Leaves and fallen branches from last spring’s tree.
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The ground cover is Charlie’s territory. We live back in the woods, so yeah, pretty much tree detritus and critter excrement. I focus my attention on the branches that fall onto the driveway (1000 feet of it), waiting to leap onto the car’s undercarriage like stick-figure Indiana Joneses and made terrifying noises as I drive to and fro after dark on the spooooooky rural back roads, with the headlights reflecting off the zombie eyes…. ~shudders~ Do you KNOW how hard it is to drive while crossing yourself and singing, “WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JEEEEEEEZUHHHHHHS” at the top of your lungs?
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Marian, I ADORE you. Like, I’m sitting here telling my husband that when we get down that way again, I have GOT to meet you.
I have 150 ft of driveway, and you know, here in the city, that’s long, lol!
I, too, have struggled with the sticks stuck to the undercarriage and the haunting noises! I now check for sticks!
And I know all about your spooky rural roads. I may link you to a post, if I can find it. Drivin in the country at night is NOT my thing. That was a huge factor in finally deciding I was CITY. I can’t speak to your trauma tune, as I prefer to chant about how I am a child of God…and I need one hand to vape, can’t be bothered to cross myself! 😛
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Our rural roads are pretty built up, these days. Still some fields and open spaces, but a lot of houses where space used to was. But I do hate having to drive at a walking pace at night, with a massive pickup tailgating me, because I know the places where the deer dart across the road out of the dark and Pickup McGunrack doesn’t.
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p.s. YES, COME AND SEE ME! We can meet in town, or you can drive out here by daylight so you can see the zombies comin’.
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Valid. My SIL lived out in the boonies for years. I hated driving down or back in the night. I don’t know anything about where the deer dart across the road, so I got lucky, drivin as fast as I could!
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If you care to read — https://jolenemottern.com/2013/04/26/im-a-city-mouse/
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If you find that perfect place, let me know. Sounds dee-vine!
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We really did find it, but he couldn’t get a job there to save his life. The job came here, so here we are.
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Where is this Shangri-La??
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Urbana, Illinois. *sigh*
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Oh, yeah? Right next to Champagne? How could that be bad, right?
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Haha, yes 🙂
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My lawn has no snow, not even a covering, and it’s the end of January….she said quietly and walked away so no one would notice….
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Aha! I noticed. 😉
Ours all melted today. No sign of snow now here, either.
Of course, I want more snow…
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Squirrels running around are what we have right now.
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Oh nice! I love my squirrels, too 🙂
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I’m just going to like, like, and like some more on this, if you don’t mind. Thank you.
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No, no, thank YOU! 🙂
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We live on a very windy hill, and we have sticks ALL over our yard, too. I think I’d rather have carrots. 🙂
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Haha! Indeed you do, my dear. I’ll send Winston over. He eats all the sticks in my back yard. He’s a regular pulp machine! And by regular, I do mean regular.
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HAHAHAHA! Thanks!
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Ours is still full of snow, even after a couple days of nice warm sunshine. Yes, the pup and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Until the icy way tried to make me slip and break something like poor hubby did. Then we went back inside. Spring, where are you?
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Ooh! Be careful out there!
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We have got loads of leaves and twigs on our lawn too, but I can’t be bothered to chuck wood!
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I used to have many many sticks and branches in our yard! Dogs will only fetch sticks thrown to them and then they will try to repeat with the same stick. Very non-productive!
Carrots might draw rabbits but wouldn’t guarantee the yard would get cleared. Your comment about a carrot in the mouth bringing the old Bugs Bunny words would happen in my own house when my kids were growing up! So silly, huh?!
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So silly! But fun 🙂
Sadie won’t chase sticks. I have tried many times. She just looks at me crazy, like, ‘Why my human throw that stick?’ LOL
I do love the bunnies…
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I have a horrific week problem at present. We had our winter already – 2 nights of temps in the upper 20’s – and now it seems spring is here. The weeds are trying to get a jump-start. Bastards.
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Our lawn now has a bunch of leaves everywhere thanks to a neighbor blowing his over.
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How rude!
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When I was a kid I memorized that “How much wood could a…” and switched all the “wood” to “chuck” and all the “chuck” to “wood”. Ahh…. to have that much time on my hands again. LOL
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Wow! You were talented!
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