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Moon was working on a friend's car. He was under the car, 'running the starter' and told the friend to pour some more gas in the carburetor. Moon is everyone's mechanic who doesnt have any money, it seems. The friend, for a joke, poured gas all over and on Moon. It got on his face and eyes and he shot out from under the car and was yelling. The friend laughed. The next day, Moon was starting his Corvette and it backfired and flames came up out of the carb. Moon told the same friend to put out the flame, so said friend leaned in to blow out the flame. Moon pumped the four barrel carb and a big flame rushed up and singed all the hair off the friend's face. Moon laughed so hard he fell out of the car and bumped his head. He laughs telling the story. He took the friend to the barber to fix his hair and the barber said, "There isn't much hair left to cut." He didn't have any eyebrows left. Moon laughs even harder as he tells the story.
Recent Posts from The Bog
Crazy Day on the Fires
Marc HitsonDate: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 11:50 pmCrazy Day I’m working on the Fork Fire incident in California. Darvin is my partner as a two man crew of timber fallers working with the fire fighting crews. We support their efforts and help make things safer for them by taking out the super crazy dangerous trees […]

A 2312 word treatise on the Moon
I have worked with the Moon on several fires (first name, Rick, but he likes to go by just Moon), and have written a couple of stories on his life experiences as related by him during ‘staging’ times, or times of waiting around for orders when it gets boring. (He gets his own category in […]

Man Down On The Big Windy
Benny and I are timberfallers, loggers who go on fires in the summers during fire season here in Oregon. Some of the terrain is astoundingly extreme with steep ground, narrow logging roads and big timber. On the 4th day of our tour on the Big Windy Fire Complex we were headed up from base camp […]
