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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Thirsty Thursday and My Top Ten

I logged into my computer terminal at work, I was 5 minutes late.  "Damn it", I muttered.  I'm not the kind of guy who is late.  I only had one saving grace and that was it was the END of the day.  Whew!
I was in discussing the details of tomorrows overtime work with the boss and lost track of time.

I stepped out the door trying to dodge as many rain drops as possible.  Heartburn surged from my chest to my throat and I grimaced.  Wont be drinking any Thirsty Thursday beer tonight I thought.  Mother is away at district soccer championships and won't be home till late.  It's just me and the dogs.....and the cat......and the bird.  What?  I didn't tell you we have a bird?  We acquired one from the brother in law last week.  I guess it wasn't enough to send me home drenched in all his poison ivy he needed to send the bird as well!  
No really he/she/it is quite neat and we both agreed it would make a wonderful addition to our growing zoo. 
Besides if we don't like it after awhile I hear Cockatiel taste just like chicken and I do have a new grill.

So anyways I hop in the truck and check the cubby in the dashboard that holds my magical elixirs.  Bingo I found it.....Zantac!  Maybe I will be drinking beer tonight.  I head home.  Drenched in antifreeze and a splash of diesel fuel aftershave I hit the shower soon as I got home.  Throw on my comfy sweats and grab a beer.

I think maybe it would be a good time to start doing the thirsty Thursday top ten again.  So tonight marks the first one in many months.  Just wish I had a laptop so I could do it from my hammock instead of having to be in the house.  Oh well.  So without further ado I give you;
Thirsty Thursday and My Top Ten.
For all you new followers that probably are not visiting since the A to Z challenge I list the beer of the day and the top ten things that happened in the last 7 days.  Good or bad you decide.  Ready Go!

Today's beer hails form the state of Wisconsin and the city of Chippewa Falls.  My rock, my steady.  Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy.  Beer with natural lemonade flavor.  It stands alone when it comes to citrus beers.  I love it on a hot summer day.  Refreshing!

Top Ten
#1    I finally finished my boulder wall........now I can start another new project

#2    Acquired a wicked case of poison ivy..............nurse got to see my butt!

#3   Helped 2 people with their homeowner projects......2 good deeds for the month

#4   Caught another raccoon in the trap..............had to use the gun on this one.

#5    Garden is growing like a weed......oh wait a minute...that is a weed, damn, more work!

#6    Overtime tomorrow.....................need money for kegger

#7    Momma leaves for 5 day ocean cruise a week from today..........see above kegger...toga, toga, toga

#8    My new grill is awesome.................5 burners and they all work plus bonus feature, coons can't get the doors open to get to the grease trap.

#9    I'm thinking about joining the Deadliest Catch crew next season....... OK I'm done thinking about it!

#10  Life is pretty good........my thanks!

I'll see you all again this weekend and catch up on your blogs,
-Bushman

Monday, May 28, 2012

Please make an appointment!

"Damn it honey!  The coons are getting into everything", I hollered from the back deck.  Grease was splattered everywhere.  The flowers were strewn across the grease stained boards and bird seed littered every available inch of space after that.  "That's it, I'm done", I muttered with vengeance  upon my breath.  There will be no more co-existence on this property.  There is an entire woods for you to eat from you do not need my stuff.

Hi there, good to see you again.  I've been busy, busy, busy.  The above excerpt is from a non existent book that I could write entitled My Battles with Wildlife.
As you know, if you've been around this blog for any length of time, when I'm not at work making money to feed my family (coon, possums, chipmunks included) I'm at home working.  Not the stay at home kind of work some would think, more like the home project kind of work.  If I'm not at work, working, or at home, working then I'm usually at someone else's house working.  My middle initial is W for a reason you know.
So lets get down to business with a quick update before I get to work this fine Memorial Day.
Here is a current list of projects in the works and their respective updates:

1.  Garden.............planted and in the process of mulching in all the boxes with grass clippings.  Looks great

2. Firewood..........95% moved and re-stacked.  What a job that one was.  My stack is about 200 feet long

3. Retention wall.....finished the boulder wall on Friday.  Looks great only went with two tiers.

4. Wood line clearing.....the grass seed on the south line had finally germinated.  still need to clear the rest of
                                        the west line.  That project will last well into summer.

5.  Under deck retaining wall/bar/patio.......have made zero progress on this.  All the blocks are stacked and
                                                                  waiting.  Maybe next weekend.

6.  Planting beds........I sprayed the lawn with grass killer yesterday.  Will be excavating all the sod and top
                                 soil, plants and mulch, slowly working my way around the entire house.

7.  South garage sidewalk......I have the soil in place and have began retaining it with leftover boulders/rocks
                                             I may finish that one today.

8.  Gutters on garage......I installed the gutters on the back last fall.  I have the front side gutters standing in a
                                       corner of the garage.  Maybe do that today as well.

9.  Interior painting..........I still have to paint the rest of the kitchen and hallway.  Ugh!

10.  Relax.....................Why is this one on the bottom of the list?

Well that should keep you up to date for awhile.  I also put up a bird feeder line in the backyard too.  I took a length of rope and out on the back yard property line I tied it to two trees about 20 feet apart and I hang my bird feeders from it.  I have a double suet cake feeders, a two sock thistle feeder, a standard tube feeder and my newest addition is an orange feeder for the orioles.  I also have a hummingbird and another standard feeder on the back deck.  I put a bird bath under the line so they can have a bath as well.  Then the icing on the cake was I put up a hammock about 20 feet away from the line and now I can lay in the hammock in the shade and watch the birds.

I spent all day Saturday helping my brother in law clear a huge chunk of woods so he could have more lawn.  
We cut down about 40 trees and battled rain most of the day.  The woods was covered in poison ivy and poison oak and now I am too.

Oh you want to hear about the coons?  Well that may be an entire post of it's own.  I did catch one.  So the score on the coons is now Bushman 1 and the coons 5.  Yeah it's been a lopsided battle but I'm learning and  they better be careful.
My new grill just arrived today so I need to go to the store an pick it up today, go to the ready care clinic for a poison ivy shot, grocery shop, come home put the grill together............ugh!  Where is my hammock?

I'll see you all later, here are a few pics to send you off with.  I'll get more later!





Saturday, May 19, 2012

Saturday should be for beer!

Happy Saturday!  How are you going to spend this fine day?  Temps today will be in the mid 80s here and the sky will be more full of sunshine than President Obama is shit.  (well maybe not)
On this beautiful day I will be in a small town south and east of here helping a friend from work cut down a bunch of trees in his newly purchased home-site.  God willing we won't drop any on cars, homes or people.  Not the ideal way to spend my Saturday but if a friend calls you had better answer lest you need one yourself someday.
Yesterday I spent some time working on the boulder wall in front of the house.  I worked at it for a few hours.  I'm no young'un anymore so I can't go more than a couple hours doing this hard labor stuff like I used to.
Sometimes I wonder how I did this kind of thing for so many years.  Sometimes I miss it......at least until I have to sit down in the morning to put my pants on because my back and hips won't let me stand on one leg!
The one thing I have going for me is I can take my time, making sure each boulder fits together like a puzzle piece.  My 3 tier wall has changed some.  It will be mainly a 2 tier because I lacked the height for 3 walls.  I could have done 3 but they would have been really short and it wouldn't be as pretty.  I have another idea for adding some more depth and dimension to it.  Once I get the wall built I can begin installing the planting beds around the house.  One day this place will look nice.  OK gotta go get breakfast started and get the wife out of bed.  She is going with me to haul brush.  (this way she can't complain that we don't spend time together)

Have a great weekend!
-Bushman

Friday, May 18, 2012

Don't F%$k With Me!

Good Morning,
I only have a few brief minutes as I have to return to the eye Dr. one more time for a final check up and ordering of the new contacts.  He wanted me to wear these for a week and check the prescription once more before he ordered.
Not much has changed since the last time I posted.  A week of rest at work and my body id prepared for another grueling weekend of yard work.  A friend at work is having a "wood cutting" party on Saturday.  I don't know how the little devil suckered us into coming over to his new house and cutting down trees, splitting and stacking wood and hauling brush.  Maybe it was the free beer and food but anyways we now call him Al Sawyer after the incredibly well known Tom Sawyer and the whitewashing of the fence.
The critter war has begun here at the Bushman residence.  I put out a finch feeder full of thistle nyger seed and a hummingbird feeder last weekend.  The finch feeder had two new socks installed on it and some critter crept up onto the deck and tore holes in them and now there is seed everywhere and I am out a bag of seed and two new socks.
I let the dogs out the other morning and there was a possum at the back door.  They quickly pinned it to the ground but it played possum (go figure) and they lost interest and walked away.  He made his get away as soon as they turned tail.  This is the day I found the first sock torn up.  The next day I opened the back door and there he was again.  I shone my flashlight up at the finch feeder and noticed the other sock had been torn open. I don't know if he was the culprit but I did know he was gonna be the one charged with the crime.  I chased him behind the shed ( all this is happening at 4:30 in the morning and me in my underwear) and he ran behind some fence panels I had leaning up against the back of the shed.  I followed him with the light and when he reached the end there was my bad ass cat Jimminy.  He ran right into the cat but fearless Jim Jim didn't even move so he turned around and headed back towards me.  Of course he stopped mid way and now we had a stalemate.  Time for reinforcements.  I quickly ran back to the house and let out my two ferocious canines.  Remmi followed the trail right to the shed and I told him to get the possum.  A short hubbaloo followed, I heard some growling, snarling and a few thuds as I made my way around the shed to see the dogs standing over the possum who was in fact still playing possum which in fact worked again on my two brilliant mutts.  I called the dogs off and picked up a 4 foot long maple log and delivered the fatal blow to Mr. possum's head.
Oh by the way, he isn't playing possum anymore.  I went to work feeling vindicated.
The next night something got up on the deck again and knocked off the catch tray under the grill and also ripped the grease catcher from it and spread it all over the deck.  You know the peanut butter and birdseed pinecone feeders kids make?  My deck resembles that but in an unorthodox way.  It is grill grease spread in a layer and thistle/nyger seed on top of that.  Little greasy footprints are everywhere including on my new patio furniture.  I believe the culprit this time is a raccoon.  Oh the joys of living in the wild.
Anyways after the possum incident I put up this flyer.

So to all you critters out there, beware.....I don't play fair and I'll leave you with this last thought......

Saturday, May 12, 2012

So you wanna be a landscaper huh?

I woke up this morning to the sound of thunder.  I was elated.  I laid in bed resting my weary muscles and my beer induced headache until 8:30 this morning.  Yesterday was a grueling day.  Here is how it went........

I began the day around 7 am stacking some more wood onto the wood wall.  It grew by about 8 feet.
It soon was warm enough to remove the outer shirt.  I then began cleaning up the area where all the firewood was.  Removed all the pallets and raked up the bark.  I also did the same thing under the deck where the wood was stacked there as well.  There was a half ass rock wall at the edge under the deck and I ripped that out and hauled the boulders to the front yard.  There were two more piles of boulders in the backyard that I hauled to the front as well.




  Then I finished mowing the lawn.
After the lawn I started tearing down the concrete retaining wall.  Here is a before shot.
I hauled all the blocks to the back yard to reconstruct a new wall back there.
I have the best helpers.


One by one they went into the tractor cart and I stacked them on a pallet.


Then came the fun part.  The new wall will be triple tiered so there are a few tons of soil that need to be removed.  I have a shovel and a garden cart.  What I needed was a skid-loader.  Oh well no pain no gain right?
Here is the lower tier excavated.  It looks a little sloppy but I needed to leave some soil in it to be able to build the wall with.
You can see the white line in the grass, that will be the second tier.
So that was the digging part.  I would estimate about 4 thousand pounds of soil removed.  Two tons!
What did I do with it all?  On the south side of my garage it slopes steeply towards the woods and there is no walkway.  It can be tricky walking on the wet grass or snow to get to the backyard so I decided to dump all the dirt next to the garage and make a level walkway.  I will eventually retain this as well and have the front "sidewalk" (above picture) installed on it.



It was a tough go at first because the dirt is 99% sand and the mower, with a cart full of sand behind it, would get stuck really easy.  Of course when I dumped the cart only a little sand would come off so I had to hand shovel it off the cart.  Yippee I get to shovel it twice.  After awhile it was packed down enough that I could drive over it.  I may even use the wall blocks to retain this.  Not sure yet if I have enough.

My plan is to use them under the deck.  I want to excavate the soil under the deck all the way to where you see the wood stack begin (in the picture at the top of post) and install the blocks there.  Then I will put in a paver patio under the deck and construct a little bar area at the edge.  I also need to remove the posts holding the deck up and put new ones in.  They didn't do it right the first time.  They poured a slab of concrete and put the post on top of it.  Makes the deck wobbly.  I am going to dig holes and use 6x6 posts.  That should stabilize the deck more.

My step kids Dad stopped over on his way home from work and we drank a bunch of beers together.  Most people would think this is weird but my wife and I have a pretty good relationship with her ex and his wife.  It's good for the kids as well.  Then it was a hot shower, another cold beer and I barbecued up some chicken quarters and had some sweet corn for dinner.  After that Kaitlin and I went out and had a campfire and ate smores.

While I was cooking dinner I gave her an impromptu lesson on driving the tractor.  I explained to her how to start it, which gears she should use and the function of a clutch.  I was a proud poppa.  She jumped right on, fired it up and started hauling wood from the stack to the fire pit like she had been doing it forever.  She even backed it into the shed without a problem.  Made me smile.
So I know it was a pretty lazy day but hey everyone needs one once in awhile.  Hope yours went as well or for your sake didn't.
-Bushman

Friday, May 11, 2012

I just can't seem to get enough of playing with my wood!

Hey there, you made it to Friday.  Congratulations.  I am now starting my second day of mini vacation.  Not a true vacation as I was still up at 4:30 this morning although I wasn't headed to work.  Work is in the forecast however and I'm up for the challenge.  Yesterday I managed to get almost the entire stock of firewood moved to the new wood wall location.  It took all of 6 hours just to get the stuff behind the garage.  It went from this

To this.

All winter the ground never stayed frozen and I was forced to split wood in the driveway out front, toss it in a wheelbarrow, go through the garage and stack it behind the garage.  I couldn't put it directly where it needed to go and huge stacks of wood right next to your house are ok during winter but come spring are an invitation to pests so it had to move.

I started to stack it, adding on to the wood wall, when I realized that I could never finish it in one day so I would fill the truck, drive it to the wall and unload it in one continuous pile for stacking later.


I had to quit at 2 pm to make an eye Dr appt.  I was going to try contact lenses for the first time so I had to go to lens class.  The teacher was a very cute little blonde and after several eye poking tries I managed to get them in and out a few times.  Hmmmmmm...........never mind!
I tried glasses but the problem is my right eye is almost perfect but my left eye is about as good as garden weasel on concrete.  When I wear the glasses and move my head I get sea sick.  I know weird but look who your dealing with here.  With contacts I don't have that problem.
Everything is covered under insurance because the doctor says it is medically necessary.  Which is a fancy way of saying I'm getting my money out of the Blue Cross.  My left eye has a super strong, specially ordered prescription and my right eye has the weakest prescription available.  Maybe now I can walk a straight line.

Temps dipped a bit low Wednesday night so I had to cover up my garden plants so they didn't get stressed or frozen.  We hit a low of 36 degrees.  If your gonna plant early you need to be prepared for things like this.  Luckily I have access to an unlimited supply of boxes.
I also received a very cool package in the mail yesterday from my Father.  No reason he just thinks I'm the best middle son he ever had!
Just when I was getting low on my personal stock too.  Great timing pops.  It came with a large waterproof humidor, made of thick plastic and a pocket sized humidor for parties or events not at your own house.
The Gurkha brand of cigars is a high end product and I will enjoy everyone of these.

Pictured here are 34 fine cigars.  It came with 35.  One went up in smoke already.

On today's agenda is to finish moving the last of the wood, cleanup all the debris and pallets and then begin disassembling the retaining wall out front.  I also need to pull the carb off of the rototiller and give it a good cleaning so I can work the soil up in the garden after all the rain compacted it and get my corn planted.  It is finally starting to dry up.

Have a great Friday and I'll see you again tomorrow morning, a little later in the morning please, I hear a campfire calling my name tonight.
-Bushman

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Birth of a Garden-Phase Two and Bushman is a Slacker!

So I was sitting there thinking, "how can I piss my wife off ?" when I had an epiphany.
I'll take Thursday off work and not tell her until either Wednesday night or Thursday morning when she starts freaking out that I'm not getting out of bed to go to work.  I think I'll wait until tomorrow morning.  That should be funner.
I actually decided to take the day off because of a few things.
#1    I can
#2    Why not?
#3     I really needed a mental health day (people at work are pissing me off)
#4    I haven't taken a day off since November of last year.
#5    There was a surplus of beer at the store and I decided to do my civic duty to eliminate overcrowding.
#6    I have a ton of yard work to get done before spring is over.
#7    See number one
#8    See number 7

You get the idea.  It's bad enough trying to come up with a reason to take a day off work.  I feel felt guilty for like 9 seconds after submitting my request.
So you ask what do I have planned?  Oh... you didn't ask?  Well too bad!

Finish planting garden
Move 6 cords of wood from behind the house and continue the wood fence all the way too the front yard
Finish clearing the back tree line
Seed and straw all bare areas in back yard
Tear down retaining wall in front yard
Re build retaining wall in front yard using all the boulders we have been collecting
Drink beer.

That should keep me busy for the next 4 days.

Speaking of garden here is the next phase of it.
Also the picture at the top is my Rhododendron beginning to bloom.

Birth of a garden phase II

After all the boxes are in place I fill them up with a topsoil compost blend.


Then I roll weed fabric over the top and staple it to the boxes


Next I cut an X into the fabric and plant the veggies


I finished collecting my colored tomato cages.  I think they are so cool.  I have red, yellow, blue and green.


I also planted some cucumbers on the trellis as well as pole bean seeds.  It's hard to see the trellis and the cuke plants in the back.  The two black lines are 100 table onions and 50 red onions.

I should have the corn in by the end of the weekend.  Just need to get the soil dried and workable for the little planting machine.

Here is my pretty Rhododendron.
  Stay tuned.  Lots of work will be happening.
-Bushman

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Birth of a Garden

Happy Saturday!  I just got my lazy arse out of bed.  Almost a record sleep in for me.  8:30 am.  10 hours of overtime yesterday must have done it.  Not used to being at work on a Friday.
I will enjoy the fat paycheck though.  Or she will, is what I should say.
So now that May is here, it's time to bring on the fun stuff and to me fun stuff is gardening and yard work.  Lots of it.  I stopped yesterday after work and picked up my tomato plants.  I have some heirlooms in the garden this year.  Among them are the likes of "Mortgage Lifter", which grows 4 lb tomatoes, "Italian Tree", which grows 10 feet tall and can yield up to 90 lbs of tomatoes, "Cherry Ice", a cherry tomato that is white when ripe, "New Yorker", "Brandywine" and a few more.    Then I picked up 6 "Roma" plants that I will grow strictly for canning purposes.  I may pick up a few more of those as they are a determinate variety and I can stuff them in limited space.  They are great for canning.  All of these were grown at a local nursery and have a great start on the growing season.  The main stalks are already as big around as a pencil and they have sprouted their second and third sets of leaves.  Today I will stick them in the garden.
I'm sure you have seen some of these pics but I want to start from the beginning.
The birth of my garden.

The first thing you do when you buy a house in mid summer is to stare at the spot that will become your garden.  This will drive you nuts for the next 10 months.
This helps with not going completely insane!
Next thing to do is turn over the sod before the ground freezes for the winter.
This helps a lot when turning over the sod.
Then wait all winter.  Drawing pictures of how your garden will look.  Making plans for a garden building, making plans to trench  for a water pipe so you don't have to run hoses all the time.
Finally spring arrives and you can properly rototill the garden
Now you have to fence it to keep the pesky critters out like rabbits, woodchucks and your own two dogs.
Of course you have to build your planter boxes.  Lots of them.  Don't be shy.  Use your tractor and wagon to haul them out to the garden.
Then all you have to do is put them in the garden, finish your fence and build a 64 foot long wall made up entirely out of split pieces of firewood.
Add a cucumber and bean trellis and then wait until the last possible danger of frost has passed and start planting.  Oh and while your waiting to plant you might want to build yourself a 7 spot herb garden.  Here is mine in process.  there will be another just like this one and they will be connected by a floating "bridge" of a planting bed.  Sided with 1x6 and stained.  It will keep my herbs contained and easily accessible.

I will sit right here and sip on  margaritas all summer and watch it grow!
Stay tuned as I begin the actual planting today or tomorrow.  I need to get a load of topsoil first and with all the rain we had the last couple days they might not be loading it at the landscape yard.
Happy Gardening,
-Bushman

Thursday, May 3, 2012

I must say after all the posting last month it has rekindled my poetic license and I feel as though I've been drawn back to my one true love.  I had begun writing a book and the idea had me very excited.  More than I ever had been before at the advent of a story.  Then I lost something.  It wasn't the idea because that still burns hot, very hot. Perhaps I was just sidetracked but in the end I came back.  Don't they always come back?  So on a whim I decided to post the first two pages of  chapter 1.  I hope you like it,  moreover I hope you want to read more.
Thanks for reading it regardless.
-Bushman
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Chapter 1
Cause and Effect
There were a lot of normal kids in our neighborhood.  Kids that played basketball and football and pick-up games of baseball in the vacant lot across from our house.  They were good at it.  Born with a healthy physique, they were strong willed and most of all naturally gifted.  I wasn’t one of them. 
I was the kid that was always picked last or more often than not told I was odd man out and had to sit until someone got tired.  No one ever got tired.  Not even the kid that stuttered and had asthma.  They picked him before me and I believe he was even a tad retarded.  My days consisted of reading books and lying for hours on end with my vast collection of Legos and dreaming of faraway places.  Little, square headed men building space ships and heavy defenses against invasion were my sport.
There was even a point that my step mother, at that particular time, took me to the doctors to see if I was all right.  I was only about 12 or 13 at the time.  The Dr. was a freak and checked my prostrate.  I think he was a pedophile wrapped in a white coat.  Nothing was found of course, in my ass or otherwise, and I continued life at its normal pace. 
I had accepted my role in life as a loner, subservient and buried myself in books and other imaginative process that would carry me away to far lands where I didn’t have to be strong or talented.  I was reading a book a day by the time I hit Jr. High School.  Girls?  Forget about it.  I often wondered if I was a result of tragic childhood experiences or if I was just a weirdo.  
This was the time of the great talk show debuts and you could trace everything back to a childhood experience.  In fact people were being murdered and the cases were judged not guilty due to the defendant not getting what he wanted for Christmas when he was 9 yrs. old.  It was a sad time and I remember thinking that I would not ever blame anything on my childhood.  I was the biggest advocate of “You are what you make yourself”.  Not “you are a cruel example of what can go wrong in the early years.”  I believed this for almost 30 years.  I wish I still did but the evidence states contrary my dear Watson.  
Time heals everything they say but what they don’t tell you is time also grows everything.  Like a tumor it hides in your belly and as the years go by it grows.  Sneaking and growing, crawling up and out and when it’s too late it bursts.  Unfortunately now there is no time for healing.  No time left.  You’re stripped, left naked and exposed.  Like a nerve in a tooth,  the layers are peeled away every touch becomes more and more painful until finally the tooth must come out.  It was time to stop.
There are many examples I could list.  Perhaps half dozen talk show episodes would be needed to cover them all.  In the end it really wasn’t about me.  Never was.  I was and still am, just a pawn in the game, slightly more than an extra but nonetheless not a major player.  Waiting on the sidelines until someone gets tired and then and only then do they come calling.  After all these years I finally get to go in the game.  The pinch hit, the winning field goal whatever the cause I will be the effect.  It was my time finally and boy did I ever shine.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

So you wanna be a bank robber eh?

Small town big city it doesn't seem to matter, hi folks this is Bushman reporting live from the palisades of cow pastures and corn fields.  Today's top story.  Man robs bank in small town.  Wait a minute I have some live updates.......ok, ok..... correction viewers, a minuscule town.  Yes that is right.  Monday at approxiamtley 9 am EST a man dressed in a disguise walked into the bank of cow patties and demanded at least 6 pesos but more if they had it.
The man exited the bank, swinging to and fro, and inserted himself into a dark 80's style Cutlass.  (A very popular vehicle, at least 2 other people in the county have one) and drove straight down a major thoroughfare headed towards the next town where he apparently worked.  The teller confirms the amount at 7 pesos and authorities are perplexed at why the bank had pesos but nevertheless vowed to track the thief down at all costs.  Which they did, 6 miles later.  We'll have more at 6 back to you Bushman. (Bushman's alter ego)

So I'm at work yesterday busting my butt

and my supervisor comes up to me and says, "hey did you hear about the bank robbery in suchandsuchville?"
I'm like," no why?"
"Well they said a guy robbed a bank and drove away in a dark Cutlass."
"No Shit", I say.
"Yeah well soandso called me up this morning and said he had some errands to run and he would punch out and be back in a few hours and he hasn't come back yet".
"And?'', I hit him with my best what the frick are you getting at, can't you tell by the above picture I have work to do?
"He drives a dark cutlass", he says.

That got my attention.  No way I'm thinking to myself.

Well that's my story.  Finish it if you want.  I know the outcome.  You can guess.