So, about a month ago,
our most beautiful Christmas tree ever was removed from the living room
and thrown out into the forest behind our house
where it has been finishing the dying process.
It had turned completely brown.
I was always a little sad seeing it tossed aside out there.
Yesterday, in a burst of energy,
Bubba declared that he was going to "burn" the Christmas tree.
Knowing that burning is against the law in Chatham County,
and experiencing the wrath of of next door neighbors during our last "burn,"
I ran into the house to hide.
Of course, the huge amount of smoke produced,
wafted in a straight line right to our neighbors back door.
I was hoping mightily that it would drift in the opposite direction.
Wielding the chain saw,
Bubba sets to work cutting the tree into small, burnable parts.
He stacked pine straw, leaves, and the dead Christmas tree parts to form a large pile.
Adding fire from a fire stick resulted in a rather robust, scary inferno.
He had the garden hose ready to extinguish if it got out of hand.
Seeing the beauty of the flames,
I quickly snuck outside to take a picture.
Thankfully...
The 2018 Christmas tree is gone.
We didn't have to haul it off.
Apparently our neighbors were not at home during the controlled burn.
What they didn't know didn't hurt them.
No policemen caught the scent and followed their noses to our backyard.
We got away with it!
😉
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