3.6.11

It got pretty warm yesterday. We are definitely seeing the beginning of the Spring melt.

It was sunny. My guess was it reached almost 50 degrees. Greg and Billy volunteered to go outside and see if the scythe and sickles would easily behead the frozen walkers. Jerry thought he would bring out the Samurai sword too. They took Johnny Dog to help sniff out the buried walkers. Quite a posse!

As Javier, Jen and I watched from the second floor porch on our townhome, the posse approached the first few walkers that were now exposed from the melt. These walkers formed the bottom portion of our undead slalom course.

Greg grabbed the first walker by the exposed arm and pulled until the body was exposed. He sat the walker up. No sign of it waking up from it's deep freeze. Javier had told us that a nice two-handed grip on the sickle, with a baseball bat style swing would be the technique to use.

Billy took the first swing. He missed a little low, the blade embedding itself in the shoulder of the walker. We all had a good laugh, which only served to inspire Billy. His second swing was right on target but the blade only made it about half way through the walkers neck.

His third swing did the trick. He hit the neck clean, and the head tumbled down the hill. Johnny Dog gave chase, but when she reached it she just sniffed at it and returned to the posse.

"Let's see what you can do with the second one!" I yelled from the porch.

"I'm just warming up!" Billy yelled back.

Greg propped up a second walker. Billy took his grip, and with a grunt beheaded the walker with one swing!

"That's the way!" Jen yelled.

Billy looked pretty proud of himself.

"These don't count!" I yelled from the porch. "They have to show some sign of life if you want them to count towards Zombie kills on the scoreboard!"

Greg, Billy and Jerry stared back, looking incredulous. "What the fuck, this is a lot of work! This should count for something!" Billy exclaimed.

Jen had the answer. "OK, a half kill for the lifeless one's. But the guy who props it up gets a half kill too."

Jen had ruled. And it was done!