Come out to the woodpile

Random writing prompt:

    Write a story about
    the quiet
    moose
    that went
    into the cellar.

Thx anyway. Although, cellar.
It’s been damp, so the cellar doors are really hard to open. It got easier after I figured out my wife locked them before she left with the kids.
They come back tomorrow. I was supposed to go with them, but I have to do some entirely inane work at the office tomorrow, for an hour, that I am not good at and which someone else could easily do, so bye 3-day weekend, catch you later.
I did some house cleaning today to kill time. I trimmed some bushes yesterday, until I got scared of ticks and stopped. Now I have a pile of foliage I had planned to run through the shredder today but then it rained and, it being an electric shredder, I put it off, especially in view of my recent spate of technical difficulties.
The car broke down again, a few days ago, but I was driving around today and it ran okay.
I was researching hobos today.
They were invented in the Civil War, for example.
And they have laws they came up with in the late 1800s.
Also, this is the difference between hobos, tramps and bums: hobos travel around, and will work. Tramps just travel around, and bums are too slack to even travel.
Also, there may or may not be a hobo mafia, depending on whom you ask.
It’s time for a hobo FBI.

5 responses to “Come out to the woodpile

  1. k

    “It’s been damp, so the cellar doors are really hard to open. It got easier after I figured out my wife locked them before she left with the kids.”

    that, along with the information about hobos vs tramps vs bums, and you made my day again!

    kick ass.

  2. mw

    “Big Rock Candy Mountain” is a real Hobo song. That’s why your spider was playing it. However, as you will see it’s been sanitized to protect the sensibilities of our youth. The original had precious little to do with candy

  3. zeynep

    I have great respect for the hobos that Jack Kerouac describes in “On The Road”, you spider sounds like one of those

  4. zeynep

    I have great respect for the hobos that Jack Kerouac describes in ” On The Road”… your spider sounds like one of them.
    Oh and here is a cool website on hobo art, apparently they draw and paint in addition to singing:
    http://www.worldpath.net/~minstrel/hoboart.htm