On 3/13/2021 11:07 AM, US Janet wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 21:46:34 -0800, Leo >
> wrote:
>
>> This is a true story.
>> Yesterday, I boiled some beef chunks along with BtB and a small can of tomato
>> sauce for beef stew. One section of my side fence had five slats knocked out
>> by the neighbor kid kicking balls against it, so I decided to hammer them
>> back into place.
>> I gathered the materials together along with a old scissor chair, so I could
>> pull out nails and staples while sitting down before banging the slats into
>> the fence again. I gathered the slats and sat down on the chair, ripped right
>> through and found myself smooshed on the bottom of the scissor in a fetal
>> position with my legs straight up in the air.
>> I was in a clamp with nobody around.
>> I panicked for a couple of minutes, strained a third of the way out of the
>> clamp, and rocked side-to-side until I fell onto the grass, extricated
>> myself, pulled out the nails from the slats, fixed the fence, discarded the
>> chair and announced to the women that we would be eating fast-food.
>> We had beef stew tonight.
>>
>> leo
>>
> Beware of chairs. I've always known that chairs will bite!
> Janet US
>
Especially those with old plastic webbing on the seat!

Stew sounds good. I had planned to make beef stew this winter but never
got around to it... not that Spring or even Summer would stop me if I
had a hankering for stew.

Jill