Bit of a warm one today

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28 degrees here again today and not a breath of wind. Perfect for lighting a huge pile (5mx5mx4m high) of tree trimmings and other burnables. Couldn't get within 5m of it when it was at maximum burn. Sweating like a rapist so off for a shower to make myself presentable for afternoon visitors. A cool beer will be well in order later on I feel.

oooer, i love a good fire.
i have burned several things down.
i razed the pump shed as a lad with an arrow dipped in petrol. it was connected to the wood shed.
the whole lot went up.
wrecked the pump we had no water for two weeks, burned all next seasons firewood.
i ended up in boarding school a year later.

dad chopped a big macrocarpa down out on the road verge. left a 10 ft stump behind.
some months later i was out there playing with matches, thought i had pissed the fire out.
hadnt. it reinflagrated later that night, burnt through all the power and phone lines.
fire department despatched.  entire road without power for almost a week.  burned the power pole down too.

The base of the burn pile is large willow and poplar stumps from when we took out a shelter belt on moving here 5 years back. This is the 4th fire I've set over them but still they survive. Today's effort was largely fuelled by lawsoniana branches from some winter windfalls so really got going. Hopefully no rain for a week or two will see the stumps continue to smolder away but I suspect they will survive to see another fire or two yet.

I'll be out there again this evening to flick the unburnt ends into the embers. Too hot to consider doing it now.