Bonfire

A couple of weeks ago, when Kyle

was in town, he cut down a bunch

of old dead trees, dug a BIG trench,

and filled it with the trees and

other random wood laying around

in the VERY back pasture.

Hmmmm.

No before pictures.

Anyhow.

This weekend he got to be here

for a day or two.

Rod and I drove up to the ranch on Saturday,

loaded up his furniture

and he loaded up his trailer with a

bunch of hay for the town farm

and we headed south.

(The ranch truck is having mechanical

issues - we brought up a new part

that he installed, but the other problem

requires a diagnostic computer...)

Sunday afternoon he decided

to light the wood on fire and

see what happened.

(The trench is half full of water, so

he wasn't confident anything would happen...)

Surprise!!! 

It burned really well!

It was smoky... but it burned.

(This is after a couple of hours...)

We pulled up some chairs and enjoyed it.

Tip your head to the right and look in the middle of the fire.
See the cat?

At the bottom of the pile

(or at least a couple of layers down...)

there was a PVC pipe.

Once that caught on fire, the flames

were really pretty!

Toxic... but pretty!

(So we made sure to stay up wind...)

Rod went out and poured water on it

and made sure it was out before

he went to bed.

This morning we checked it again 

before Kyle had to head back up north.

He will be home next Monday for a couple

of weeks... months... who knows...

and he'll put some more wood in there

for Bonfire 2.0

And then he'll push all the dirt back in the hole.

DONE.