Third the Nerd

My backyard is relatively unremarkable in many ways, but relatively amazing in roughly 3:

1. This past summer, I used a tiny saw to cut down two (dying) bushes that were blocking the view from one of the downstairs windows with lots of dead branches and spider webs - VERY fun.
2. We used to have a jacuzzi-thing in the southwest side of our backyard, but some squirrels began making an underground kingdom right below it and it was taken out. True story.
3. This:Our green/yellow-lemon lemon tree. My brother and I used to sometimes spend boring days picking lemons down and playing lemon baseball, which is fun until you smash the lemon-ball with the bat, run from the citrus juice explosion, and have to fetch another.
More delicious, but maybe not as fun, is the ai-yu jelly (a jelly-drink-snack-thing) we could make with the lemons. We just had to go into the backyard and pick a few non-decaying lemons, bring them back to mom, and within half an hour she'd have a nice bowl of deliciousness waiting in the fridge.

My elementary school used to have this book fair every so often where they would stack tons of books and posters in the library that would eventually go up for sale. I was rummaging under the contents of my bed (something that usually requires gas mask and big honkin' gloves) and found these. I happened to get the John Elway poster on the left from a girl in 4th grade, and as every savvy 4th-grader knows, that's basically a marriage proposal.