My friend and neighbor, Kevin, is not easily impressed, but Desiree impressed him righteously. She did so with her skill (read unchecked abandon here) at producing a big fire. This occurred as Kevin and Desiree worked together to torch two truckloads of branches trimmed from the juniper and Russian olive at our lakefront.
Note how I used the term “torch”
and not “burn” when talking about what our two firebugs did with the branches. Burn is not near bold enough.
With nothing more than the trimmed
branches, Kevin and Desiree produced a (mostly) controlled fire hot enough to
melt a hole in a plastic garbage can several paces away from the fire pit. And we are not talking about a random garbage
can here. This particular can has survived
two seasons of Aluminum Beer Cab Melting Guild meetings.
As Kevin and I stood back watching
a particularly showy display of flames fueled by an armload of branches placed
on the fire by Desiree, he turned to me and said: “She’s good. Really good.
She can tend fire with me any time.”
Desiree and Kevin Monitoring Their
Fire
Pax Watching Big Flames
—Mitchell Hegman
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