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Well, here is my backyard.

And you can see my big log pile here.

That's not a big log pile.

It's a small log pile.

But it's getting bigger.

When I first moved here, there was nothing.

And the bottom guy is a tree that actually fell in the house.

So I cut him up.

And then there's some other little bits and bobs that fell off the trees.

And then the top of here, this guy here, you see that fresh cut that fell across the driveway.

Well, I think Friday night, supposedly a storm came by Friday night.

I left town Friday morning, last Friday morning.

And, uh, so I didn't, I didn't actually see it, but supposedly a windstorm came through.

It's been very windy.

We've had a lot of windstorms lately.

I was talking about,

uh,

talking to this with someone earlier today,

see if we can walk down to the,

to the Creek,

walk through the woods here is,

uh,

It seems like it's been, we've had a lot of wind storms.

I mean, just really nasty stuff.

There was one about two weeks ago that took down a bunch of trees around here.

I swear it was probably a tornado.

I mean, it was, I mean, it was rattling.

I mean, I, you know, I've been through a lot of storms and all kinds, been through hurricanes.

And,

uh,

you know,

there's a point at which when the wind starts to howl,

you start to get a little nervous,

you know,

even though you're inside.

As you can see, I've got a million branches down here.

One of the dreams I have this summer is to clear out a lot of this stuff.

I mean, I really don't think it matters.

Nature has a pretty good job of policing your own act.

So,

you know,

I know people say,

oh,

you've got to clear out all the fallen trees and blah,

blah,

blah.

Well, maybe.

But,

you know,

a tree like this,

I mean,

what harm is it doing other than resting on that other tree?

But it will make a nice addition to my pile because my dream...

is to slowly take these guys like you see some here just there's a whole bunch of

them all over the place is to start chopping these up piling them up so that it can

be the backstop for my archery range so i'll be a real redneck then and that way

see if i get good uh with the uh archery let's walk over this way then uh when the

zombie apocalypse comes i'll be ready

You know,

because you shoot them in the head with the arrow,

and for whatever reason,

they magically die.

You know,

their flesh rotting off doesn't kill them,

but for some reason or other,

the arrow to the head does.

That was always the funny thing about that show, Walking Dead?

Yeah, I think that's what it's called, Walking Dead.

It was... I mean, the logic of it was kind of silly.

I mean, you could understand, say, the first...

So let's say a month, you know, with people getting affected and being crazy.

But eventually, you know, they rot away.

They die.

And then they're just skeletons, so they can't move anymore.

But, you know, you couldn't have a show like that over in a month.

Well, I guess they did a movie like that.

But anyway, here's the Crick.

And actually, it's not quite as bad as... Well, I take that back.

It's actually a lot bigger or a lot wider than it was two weeks ago.

Was it two weeks ago?

Well, I don't remember.

If you have trouble getting old and having too many things on your schedule,

you lose track of time.

The last video I did, I started shooting.

I did a little shot from here.

Actually, I think further up.

And so...

It seems like it's higher now.

It should be.

We've got on Wednesday and Thursday, we've probably got about six, seven inches of rain.

Although the weird thing about this,

when you live in the hills,

is that right now,

it's just the first dry day.

It's not too bad.

But tomorrow and the next day, as the water kind of works its way down,

Because I'm not that far off the hill.

Let's see.

How can I get around here?

Can I walk this way?

Let's see.

I'm going to break my neck.

Yeah,

I spent the last three and a half hours,

something like that,

cutting grass and cleaning things up.

I'm a little tired, so I'm going to be careful.

I don't want to break a hip out here.

Yeah, it is a little higher.

The falls is a little further down.

So, anyway, that's my crick.

That's high tide.

You know, it's funny about these kinds of things.

When you live inland,

away from the ocean,

rivers,

streams,

creeks,

lakes,

they all are a much bigger part of your life.

But when you live on the ocean, you don't care about these things when you live near the ocean.

And when I grew up as a kid,

I wasn't that far from the ocean and in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay.

So I didn't think about all these little streams.

I mean, we played in these when I was a kid.

We'd crawl dads.

You'd catch crawl dads in them.

And we didn't eat them, strangely enough, even though I eat them now, oddly enough.

But back then, what we would do is play with them.

And then, you know, they were pets.

And then they'd die.

And that was it.

But, you know, we'd get frogs out of here.

And at night...

Well, I don't know if it did last night.

It's been a while.

But the other day when I was planning to shoot some video on the back porch,

but the guy up the hill,

his damn dog was barking.

It makes me crazy.

But you can really hear the frogs.

There's a ton of frogs down here.

And turtles.

When...

certain times of the year.

It's like a turtle march.

They come marching out.

I don't know.

They go up somewhere.

I guess they go up to breed or something.

I don't know anything about turtles.

But there's actually signs around.

Watch out for turtles.

We've got a lot of turtles in this area.

Anyway, there's the crick.

Let's see.

Anything else interesting here?

No, just grass.

Some trees.

Yeah, it's funny.

When I walk down here and shoot these videos, I don't know why I do this.

It just seems like it's a, I don't know, just seems like a neat thing to do.

I think it's because having lived in an urban jungle for so long,

I miss being in,

I miss walking like this.

When I was a kid, I spent almost all my free time in woods like this.

I mean, the woods, wherever I was, it was a little denser in some areas.

But for the most part, it was pine and some hardwood, but mostly pine.

So you had a lot of empty space.

And, man, as a kid, I used to love, let's see, this log.

This is probably enough to hold me.

Whoa, no, it wouldn't.

So let's see.

But when I was a kid,

I used to love walking into the pine stands,

and you could hear them creak when the wind blew.

Now I have a big pine stand behind my house.

It actually kind of creeps me out at night.

When I have the window open, you can hear it creaking.

But man, I spent a lot of time in the woods, and I miss it.

I don't have a romantic sense of nature.

It's just the beauty of it.

You can't help but admire God's handiwork.

Well, I'm not sure if I got anything to say.

You know, it's Memorial Day weekend.

It's the first weekend of summer.

I tell you, it's... Right now, let's see.

My thermometer says it is 52 degrees.

So Al Gore can kiss my ass.

It's actually going to go down to 42 tonight.

And then tomorrow when I get up, it's going to be in the low 40s.

And, you know, I've been wanting to do some planting of...

You know, I'm not really a green thumb.

I'm thinking of taking it up because I have areas that need,

I don't know,

they just need something.

Well, they have a lot of weeds.

So I don't know.

I'm going to try and learn how to be a green thumb, how to put different flowers in.

So I've been trying to learn about this stuff a little bit.

I've got a whole pile now of fresh dirt.

I'm told the internet tells me that what you need to do if you want to put

You know,

you want to get flowers or perennials or you want to put some shrubbery around that

you're probably best to take up the current soil and replace it with new soil

because that'll take the weeds with it.

And we'll see what happens with that.

But I'm going to follow the instructions.

I spent $89 on topsoil or potting, not potting soil.

What the hell they call it?

Garden soil.

So we'll see.

And so tomorrow I'm going to go because I'm trying to buy local to the potting soil

or garden soil business.

I bought it Lowe's because it's just it's just there.

You know, they have skids of the stuff.

My local hardware store doesn't really have much of it, but I found a local nursery.

So I'm going to I'm going to go in there going to give me advice on stuff to buy.

So we'll see what happens.

Maybe I'll shoot a video of me.

Green thumbing it around my nursery or where I'm gonna where I'm gonna start

because I have this I don't know what you want to call it.

It's like a little stone area and it's a

You know, I put my grill there and it's got a fire pit.

And it seems like a good place to put some shrubbery.

I'm thinking maybe like boxwoods.

But, you know, something with flowers too.

We have hummingbirds here in West Virginia.

And I have some flowers out to my office window and I see the hummingbirds there.

And I got to tell you, that's a pretty cool thing to see.

You know, you're sitting there working and you look up and...

you know there's a hummingbird outside the window makes the cats crazy uh they just

they don't know what to do this thing is hovering out there they just stare you

know how cats are they'll give it the death stare hoping to uh you know that

something will happen but uh but i'm thinking if i if i put some flowers in the

back you know then i'd have a whole bunch of hummingbirds maybe i don't know i mean

i'll find out tomorrow so i'm gonna get educated on green thummery let's see how

much time i got here about nine minutes

Yeah, I don't really have much to talk about.

It's mostly... I don't know.

I just felt like doing a video.

I said I'm going to try and do one once a week.

It's one of those things.

I'm trying to stick to this stuff.

You get out of schedule before long.

You just stop doing something.

That's why I write every day.

That's why I try to stick to a schedule in the green door.

Make sure I always do two things.

I always do something on Tuesday.

It's either Thursday or Saturday, you'll notice.

And the reason for that is when I do the show, a lot of times I'm just too tired to...

to write, so I won't do anything on Thursday.

So I'll do it on Saturday instead.

But, you know, if you stick to a schedule, you know, you don't slack off.

You don't forget to do something.

So that's why I'm doing the video here.

So you got, give or take, probably 10 minutes of me just talking about nothing.

Hope you enjoyed the video.