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burning trees
Mar. 21st, 2009 10:34 pmAnother day, more tree parts to burn. What else is new? Well, actually, one part of today's burning experience was new. We kinda caught one of the trees on fire. Oops! It was a dead limb, pretty high up in the tree. I guess a burning piece landed up there. Once M got it out, another section caught on fire too, so we had a bit of drama related to the flaming tree. It all seems to be doing well now, though. This is a spot that we've had a lot of fires in, but we've never had any trouble with the surrounding trees before. All branches are really high up over it so it was just bad luck, I guess. M stopped feeding it more branches at that point and we'll go back to the other spot we were using. It'll mean that he has to drag it all quite some distance, unfortunately, but better that than burning our tree down.
We also found out Wednesday that you're supposed to call the fire department and ask permission before starting a brush fire. Who knew? We have never done that before. Today they told us that we had to wait until six p.m. Kinda messed up our plans for the day but it worked out alright. We got to go have fun instead. We took E to the game farm near our house, and she got to walk around looking at bears and birds and cats and cows. Okay, there are no cows, but she is 22 months and unaware of the finer distinctions made between cows and elk. It was our first trip there sans stroller or mei tai. She loved walking around on her own but she was drooping by the time we were walking back inside. Poor little baby.. her heart was willing but her legs were not. She was clearly exhausted and one would have thought she would have been easy to get to sleep as a result, but she was more difficult than she's been in a while. Go figure. Just when you think you've got them figured out, they surprise you.
Given that I have been sitting here, flipping between this window and random Facebook games for the last fifteen minutes while trying to think of something else to add... I apparently have nothing else to add. Nightie night. :)
We also found out Wednesday that you're supposed to call the fire department and ask permission before starting a brush fire. Who knew? We have never done that before. Today they told us that we had to wait until six p.m. Kinda messed up our plans for the day but it worked out alright. We got to go have fun instead. We took E to the game farm near our house, and she got to walk around looking at bears and birds and cats and cows. Okay, there are no cows, but she is 22 months and unaware of the finer distinctions made between cows and elk. It was our first trip there sans stroller or mei tai. She loved walking around on her own but she was drooping by the time we were walking back inside. Poor little baby.. her heart was willing but her legs were not. She was clearly exhausted and one would have thought she would have been easy to get to sleep as a result, but she was more difficult than she's been in a while. Go figure. Just when you think you've got them figured out, they surprise you.
Given that I have been sitting here, flipping between this window and random Facebook games for the last fifteen minutes while trying to think of something else to add... I apparently have nothing else to add. Nightie night. :)
