Butler Family Diaries

Tim and I bought our house 12 years ago. It was over grown with bush and weeds and lots of trash. Tim bush hogged, it was dry, hot, August. As he was bush hogging some rocks caught up in the bush hog and sparked and caught the yard on fire. We had turned on the water, but had no hoses. Luckily our neighbors stretched water hoses together and the fire was put out. There was a small rose bush that was burned. It came back each year and finally bloomed last year. Let me correct myself. It came back with a vengence! Huge thorns! It looks real creepy at night with its vines curling up to the sky. I secretly think that it is telling Tim to BACK OFF!
This is just the front of the bush. It grows way back into the woods with the base of the vines being at least 3 inches around. I tried to trim it back this weekend and thought once I got tangled up in the thorns that it was not going to let me go. I have battle scars. I tried to tell it that I was not the one that set it on fire.

So I gave up and it let me go.