It's a little after midnight and I'm sitting in the ront yard on the same Adirondack chair as last year tending to the burn barrel as it burns down. Another successful halloween Hootinany.
We have been doing this now for 4 years and it has gotten to the point that our neighbors expect and lok forward to it. Just sitting around the burn barrel drinking some wine or beer and watching the kids come up in their costumes. The neighbors have all gone home and my wife has gone to bed. Im letting the coals burn down a bit before I douse them with water and stir them to make sure it's out.. it's cool but not cold. just under 50 degrees right now. I can hear the deer moving in the woods around me and a dog barking in the distance. A very small dog.
I love this. burning wood in a redneck burn barrel in a modern neighborhood (we have large lots...1 acre is about the smallest) sitting around with friends drinking some wine...connecting the past with the present. sitting aorund the fire.....but in a more civaized manner. I'm close to dousing the coals....I'm ready to sleep. But the cold and warmth mixing ...the crisp night air and wood smoke. We work our lives away and seldom do we take moments like th is to just have. a couple years ago we saw a large meteor on Halloween night. This year we all talked about it and then about 11 oclock we saw a very small one. I immedeately said "make a wish" and my wife did.....and I am certain I know whas she wished for And that, I think, is the coolest thing about tonight. Hope everyone else enjoyed the little gouls. Good night, Be safe.
We have been doing this now for 4 years and it has gotten to the point that our neighbors expect and lok forward to it. Just sitting around the burn barrel drinking some wine or beer and watching the kids come up in their costumes. The neighbors have all gone home and my wife has gone to bed. Im letting the coals burn down a bit before I douse them with water and stir them to make sure it's out.. it's cool but not cold. just under 50 degrees right now. I can hear the deer moving in the woods around me and a dog barking in the distance. A very small dog.
I love this. burning wood in a redneck burn barrel in a modern neighborhood (we have large lots...1 acre is about the smallest) sitting around with friends drinking some wine...connecting the past with the present. sitting aorund the fire.....but in a more civaized manner. I'm close to dousing the coals....I'm ready to sleep. But the cold and warmth mixing ...the crisp night air and wood smoke. We work our lives away and seldom do we take moments like th is to just have. a couple years ago we saw a large meteor on Halloween night. This year we all talked about it and then about 11 oclock we saw a very small one. I immedeately said "make a wish" and my wife did.....and I am certain I know whas she wished for And that, I think, is the coolest thing about tonight. Hope everyone else enjoyed the little gouls. Good night, Be safe.
