This past weekend I was happy to finally be able to burn the brush pile that I have been building for months. There has been a drought in the area, which resulted in a burning moratorium. We’ve had a few days of rain, and they lifted the moratorium, so I burned the pile.
I was truly in my element, out there, rake in hand, tending the fire. It burned high and quick. My wife was nervous about sparks setting the nearby woods on fire, or even our roof, but I had everything under control. She is such a worrier!
I was surprised, though, that the pile smoldered for four days afterwards! A little surprise rose out of this, on the third night, I let the dogs out about two o’clock in the morning. Within minutes, they started barking and growling. As I stepped out onto the deck to see what the matter was, I saw two large glowing eyes staring at me from the middle of the lawn. Upon further examination, I noticed that it was two hot spots from the pile of ashes and embers that was driving the dogs crazy. The next day I hosed the spot down and took care of it.
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My kid sister has been giving me some grief lately concerning my current address sign that is older than dirt at this point. She’s been saying that she saw a show on TV which was discussing that our emergency personnel are really having a difficult time finding the right place to respond to – when they are called and needed for assistance – because of the issue of a growing number of unreadable address signs. You can only imagine that at night it would be even more of a challenge.
With this being said she is urging me to get off of it and start looking around online and look at the large variety of address plaques and numbers that are on today’s market. She sent me the link to justaddressplaques.com the other day and I’ve spent some time looking around and seeing what is out there that might just float my boat. I never realized how many varieties of house address plaques there are these days.
It only makes sense to get a quality and easy to read address plaque. There are times when I call one of the Chinese Restaurants or the local Domino’s Pizza to be delivered and I do like my food nice and hot. Better chance of getting it hot if they delivery person can read the address plaque.
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