Lawn Care & Live Fire

This weekend was quite busy and action-packed: a fire on Saturday and major lawn maintenance on Sunday. The fire department that I'm a member of held a "live fire burn" just down the road and we used it as a chance to hold multiple controlled-scenario drills. Beginning at 8am on Saturday, we ran through numerous "what if" situations involving a structure fire. After lunch we lit the house on fire and ran a few more drills before finally just letting the structure burn to the ground. It was quite impressive, actually and hot - at one point our infrared heat gun read 946 degrees before climbing off the chart - it's only capable of 3 digit numbers! On Sunday Ericka and I got out the lawn tools and set about tackling 1 years worth of neglected lawn care in 1 day. The weather cooperated, as did Miki, so we got tons accomplished. Spring is here, it's warming up, the trees are budding and things are turning green once again...