Rainy day

A perfect day to burn a big pile or 2 I would say.  It rained pretty much all day today and the big storm is not supposed to be here till tomorrow so we have yet another wet day in store.  It’s all good though since I got both of my piles burned today and had a nice warm fire going in the wood stove.  A great thing about living here is we get the rain.  Over in Susanville it would get rain shadowed out most of the time so the storms just missed us, but here we get it good.  I love the rain and I wasn’t disappointed today… ya gotta love it!

The days of fall

Being out in the woods this time of year is really special.  The colors are striking in the meadows where the aspen trees are growing.  Usually the trees have a reddish tint to them along with the yellow and although we did see some that were like that, there weren’t as many as I had hoped and I failed to photograph the ones we did see. 

Still, the contrast between the green conifers and the bright yellow leaves really makes for a nice effect.

 

I’m using Windows Live Writer to do this blog post and since it’s new to me I’m not sure how it is going to publish and since I didn’t resize this picture it might come out full size if you click on it so beware.

Fall Burning

One of the things I used to love doing in the fall was burning. Maybe it was the latent pyro in me from all my years as a firefighter I guess or the primal effect fire has on people, who knows, but one of the good things about living in Greenville is doing yard work by fire. Yesterday it was drizzling and it was a permissive burn day so outside with a pocket full of matches I go. I got 2 of my piles burned and I have 2 more really big ones so I will wait till it's raining again before I light those. It's great being able to burn the residue instead of having to haul it off somewhere and since we have so many trees here on our property I have lots of needles and branches to dispose of. I'm burning some of the larger branches in the wood stove but being able to do open burning really helps get rid of the rest of it.

Karen's property up on the hill has quite a few piles that she and Ken made before he died so we need to get up there and light those too but that will certainly have to wait for wetter weather. Anyway, ya gotta love it!