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Thanks, Wilma! Of course, it was a "prescribed burn" that got the people at Pilot Mountain in trouble a few weeks ago, caused more damage than it prevented! We made sure there was no wind and nothing nearby that could burn, before we started this fire on Monday evening.

Of course, Delana! We had the garden hose connected and run out to the site before we started, turned it on and doused the flames well when we were finished. It was all over in ten or fifteen minutes; that grass burns very fast once it gets started!

LOL Delana! That reminds me of a few years ago when we were living in our former house, and my husband had his library in an outbuilding in the back yard. The ground was sloping and one end was propped up on cinder blocks with about two feet of crawl space under it. Next to it was the burning barrel. It was this time of year and had been damp, and I couldn't get anything to burn except what was in the barrel. Plus, I had already put away the hoses for the winter. I decided to burn the papers in the barrel, but it was full of holes and the fire got out and into some of those damp leaves that I hadn't been able to get to burn... they were blazing away merrily, and spreading rapidly toward the outbuilding; I couldn't stamp them out with my foot. Thought I, if they get under that building, the whole thing will go up, and my husband will probably divorce me. Furthermore, I wouldn't blame him! But I had a bucket full of water I had been planning to take to the chickens we also had then, so I threw that on the flames, and that doused them enough so that I had time to run and get another bucketful. THAT was sufficient to put it out, saved my neck, LOLOLOL!