Yup, that time again. Another burn pile bites the dust. This is burn pile number number four. I really need to get busy and make some more piles. I don’t want to get caught in the summer with 27 piles and not being able to burn.

Our third burn pile of the season. WooHoo! Okay I guess it seems rather pitiful when you look at how much yard debris that we still have to burn. I wonder how many fires we will have before the burn season is over with?

Much of this week has been nice and clear. That led to me not wanting to work inside and doing brush patrol. Our burn pile got so big that we started a second one. Though the second one got put on the fire once it got going.

Sunday we had the last yard sale. We got rid of a bit of stuff and have already taken a truck load of left overs to Goodwill. That is our second truck load of stuff in two weeks and I need to take one more. Anyways, I’m sitting in the house feeling sick, freezing my butt off, and getting worried. We don’t have much more time before we are moving in. The house is a disaster and that little space heater was not making my feet warm. My plan for upcoming days I think will be mopping so I have at least one room that feels somewhat clean to put our stuff. That and buying some wool socks and warm underclothes.

Later Lee decided to start burning. I was going to join him to help get warm but yard sale business picked up. By the time I got back there the fire was down (still hot though) and all the burnables were gone. I couldn’t believe it. It proved to be a stubborn fire as we poured a ton of buckets of water on it to get it out. Then we went back later and coals had come back. So more buckets of water. Lee was grumbling because he would have just let it burn itself down. But we don’t want to get in trouble.

Today was one busy day. It started with us getting around early and doing a million errands in town. We went to a ton of tile shops. I picked out a bunch that I liked but Lee wasn’t quite sold. He wanted a tile that was richer in color. I have already picked out (as of now) a dark slate for under the stove. For behind the stove we are looking at hand painted tiles. That’s what’s hanging Lee up. We are looking for a jade green. Not too light but not too blue but not too bright green and not too shiny. Sounds easy huh? HA! And not only the special color of green but coordinating tile colors to go with it.

Tiles aside we then bought low VOC primer to get part of our house ready for the electrician on Monday and a pressure washer to also do prep work. The below picture is Lee later that night trying to figure out how it went together. I should start a list of new tools that Lee gets to buy for working on this house but I am afraid I’d loose track.

As soon as we got to the house we ended up burning one of our small burn piles. It was the pile of brush that we took away from the side of the house. My Mom and me had a ‘burning’ urge to start something on fire since it was the first burn day of the season. Evidence below that it really happened. We had it put out on time as we were warned by a neighbor that the Fire Marshal lived down the street and was a real stickler for making them be out by 5 p.m.

Lee then went on to vent his frustration on a poor innocent stump. He had to grade soil by the house for the ground rods that get put in on Monday. Yeah new wiring soon!

Lastly my brother Robert came over to help for a while. He is feeling sorry for us because he didn’t realize we were moving in so soon. Robert ripped out the top part of the divider wall for us and a bit of the molding. We always appreciate free labor from sympathetic family members. Thanks Robert.