Crispy came home from school (on one of the last days) and said they had put together a time capsule. They wanted to bury it here. It had deflated balls, t-shirts and letters to themselves and other things.
Okay.
We pictured something the size of a shoe box or ice cream bucket or maybe even something as big as a 5 gallon bucket.
NOT a 55 gallon tank!
Tractor joe told them they could never dig a hole big enough...it would be to much work....it wouldn't stay in the ground....they would break shovels digging.....
Crispy thought his dad was being negative, that wasn't allowed..... and they were going to have fun! On Monday they had their fun. About seven boys started digging in the late evening and the digging continued well past sunset. Flashlights were found.
They quit digging when they hit water, threw the tank in, buried it and called it DONE!
They wouldn't see it for 10 years!!
Two days later, it rained and rained and rained and rained some more. I looked out the kitchen window at supper time....there was this mound of dirt.....what the heck is that?????
Okay.
We pictured something the size of a shoe box or ice cream bucket or maybe even something as big as a 5 gallon bucket.
NOT a 55 gallon tank!
Tractor joe told them they could never dig a hole big enough...it would be to much work....it wouldn't stay in the ground....they would break shovels digging.....
Crispy thought his dad was being negative, that wasn't allowed..... and they were going to have fun! On Monday they had their fun. About seven boys started digging in the late evening and the digging continued well past sunset. Flashlights were found.
They quit digging when they hit water, threw the tank in, buried it and called it DONE!
They wouldn't see it for 10 years!!
Two days later, it rained and rained and rained and rained some more. I looked out the kitchen window at supper time....there was this mound of dirt.....what the heck is that?????
When it quit raining, I walked down to get a closer look.....
OH NO!! The time capsule was popping out of the ground.....
Crispy came home from work and went down to survey the damage. There wasn't much he could do.....he took some pictures for facebook. He needed to show his friends what was happening to all the hard work.
The sun was out nice and bright the next morning and so was the tank....
The earth was done popping that invasive tank out of the ground. There was now a nice big hole filled with water and mud....and a tank floating on top.
New plan....Grandpa has some farmland with an old shed. It isn't being used for much. Seems like a nice place to store a time capsule for 10 years and no digging is involved!
...and then there is tractor joe walking around muttering about how, "no one listens to him"
3 comments:
Too funny!
Hilarious! They need to add that story to the time capsule!
Hilarious! And Crispy's expression says it all!
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