A picture of what burning looks like. We did ours without the snow!
One of our spring chores was burning brush on our land. We had nearly 20 to burn! It took my whole family helping to get it done. It was a good example of teamwork. We had two "teams". On one was my Mom, 12 year old sister, and older brother. And on the other was me, my 63 year old grandma (believe it or not) and my autistic brother.
It took three hours to burn two small piles and one big pile! I was putting some more pines on the fire, then a wind shift hit me. (Wind shift is when the wind blows a different way.)My eye burned a little and it was unpleasant. My Grandma told me that smoke was attracted to beautiful things, and that's why it was hitting me. It was a good relationship builder. Work is always good at building relationships.
We even got Mark, my autistic brother to help. I would tell him "Go get those sticks, please." And he would walk over and get them and then hand them to me. Truly it was a bad help, his my little helper! <3
How burning works is: You light a cardboard box and then add some pines. Then slowly add more and more! Till everything is burned. Some people do it a different way too, but that's how we did ours.
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