Totally BONKers

I can’t tell you what the name of the show was, or what channel (maybe HGTV or TLC); but my wife and I caught about two minutes of an interview with a guy and his wife. I’m not sure they were American, they may have been Australian. Anyway, I’ll get to what they’re doing in a moment or so.

These people were a part of the brotherhood of individuals who say or do things that generally have the sane people of the world shaking their heads in wonder, and thinking---maybe there are aliens living among us; like the Grizzly Man for example. This is the guy who was totally into grizzly bears, and lived with them somewhere in Alaska. I like bears, but this guy had a fetish; unfortunately for him, the bears didn’t understand his love and pure motivations, because one of them killed and ate the nutcase. I’m sure you can come up with your own favorite example of a nutcase gone wild. A majority of this brotherhood (lets call them the ‘Brotherhood of Nutcase Know-it-alls’ or BONKs for short) seem to really be into animals and nature. Another great example is the BONKist or BONKers who went out and released a group of mink that were bred and raised in captivity on a farm. Within weeks they’d found nearly all the animals dead because they had no survival skills in the wild. BONKers often times have seemingly good motivations, but they’re so sorely lacking in the brains department that it overrides and kills any of these good intentions.

Back to these people we saw the other day. Their idea was to plant some young trees in the shape of a square; then, they pull them down and mingle all the trunks and branches together and tie them up. Eventually, as the trunks and branches grow bigger and bigger, they’ll form walls that will create the structure of a house. They then do the same things on the inside with smaller trees in the shape of chairs and other assorted furniture. This way they’re not just destroying one big tree for lumber to make a house and furniture; but the living trees are the house and furniture. I don’t know that I explained it correctly, we saw just that little bit; plus, I’m not a BONKer. So, in this guy’s ideal world, everyone should set this up, and in 10-15 years your house should be ready to be moved in to.

Oh well, who am I to judge another man’s dream? History has shown that even BONKers may be proven right in the long run; in this case though, I’d lay down some pretty heavy cash on a bet that this one isn’t going to fly.