Burning day!

Denny burning at SE end of property and along road.

Burning along the road.

Original burn pile.

Danged old sofa bed!

Sofa bed ready for trash.

Today was burning day at the farm. Barbara called Kathy about 9 a.m. to say that Denny was going to burn. Kathy was at the farm before 10 and Denny had already burned a great deal of the trees, limbs and twigs at the SE end of the property. Kathy finished picking up the limbs and twigs at the NE end of the property that she didn't get picked up last weekend while Denny burned away. After the pile was burned at the SE end and the brush along the road was going, Denny started the pile in the middle of the property to the west of the vineyard. Kathy was in charge of that, and remembering that she has no skill with fire, it should come as no surprise that she failed at keeping this fire going.

Denny took off for lunch and put Kathy in charge of keeping the fire along the road going. This she did with some success and without setting the woodpile on fire or her car. What a lot of work needs to be done along the road! Some serious chopping, weed eating, clipping, raking, and then some more burning. A daunting project for sure!

Upon his return from lunch Denny got the second burn pile going again and Kathy managed to keep it going this time. When Denny was certain she couldn't screw it up, he took his tools and went home where his water softener demanded his attention. Kathy actually got the fire completely burned down and gave herself a gold star for the day. She also emptied the burn barrel and moved it next to the main burn area. She pulled a sofa bed frame and springs out of that burn area and now has to dispose of it, and she took some more of the pieces of the deck from the camper and moved them away from the front of the property and put them behind the shed. In addition, she broke up some concrete piles that the men left in places around the cottage when they were there pouring footers, the basement floor, and the retaining walls.

When Kathy was about done for the day, a man pulled into the driveway and asked her who owned the property across the road. She didn't know and sent him to Denny for the answer. He was from Ft. Wayne and worked in Markel and wanted to build in the country. Kathy told him that if he built in that area, he had to build a unique home because we only allowed unusual homes to be built on our road. He agreed to do that.

Kathy itches all over and expects to have poison ivy and only hopes it will not be a bad case.

Congrats to KJ for getting his CDL today! We are proud of you!