Pick Up Sticks

Do you remember a game that involved what looked like really long plastic toothpicks?  You dumped them out of the can and then had to pick up just one without moving any of the others.  We played that game a lot when I was young.

We had to play our own version of this game to clean up the farm road after all the flooding finally subsided.  Only we didn't care if the nearby stick moved and we were picking up logs and all kinds of random debris.

 

Pretty sure I won the game since I had the easy job of driving the tractor, while Boyd and the dogs scavenged for limbs.

 I think thistle are quite a beautiful flower.

 We found plenty to fill my bucket.