We've been working hard on the property these last few days. We're still feeling less than well, but life goes on!! Mallory really was hit the hardest and the last, so she's been in the house answering the phone, taking messages and making sandwiches. But the rest of us have been burning off ditches, hauling brush, clearing trails and cleaning up. This is stuff I've wanted to do since we moved in 4 years ago!!
It's been fun doing all this with Matthew. Grandpa came over, too. Coupla pyros!! Matthew actually found a propane torch in the middle of the road one day. Grandpa keeps him supplied with the propane tanks... they are a pair!!
Anyway, Matthew and I started with the area around the incinerator, then some of the dry grass on the hill, then in the back where I've seen some asparagus come up in the past. We've been picking little spots carefully, picking low-wind days and burning against the breeze. Then we get a little braver and go a little farther... It was the spot by the asparagus that we decided to call it good, so we burned a nice patch there to make sure the fire would stop there. Then we went to the other end and lit the big one!! The day was a little too still, though, and we had a hard time keeping it going! Matthew had his torch and kept starting more where it skipped.
