Things I Learned Today

You know those great Crocs rubber shoes everybody's wearing nowadays? If you're cleaning up the yard and your yard is heavily populated with mesquite trees, Crocs are not the shoes to wear. Tomorrow is bulk trash day, and I was gathering some downed branches this afternoon. Every time I stepped on the tiniest little bit of mesquite branch, the thorns would penetrate the soles of both my shoe and my foot, and I'd shout out in pain. I'm sure my neighbors wondered what on earth I was doing. Oh wait, they were all inside watching the Super Bowl, so nobody heard anyway.