English pronunciations vary across the country, so it was no surprise to me that the word “domestic,” phonetically where I come from, begins with “Da Mess.”  And that is what my backyard has looked like during a short little project that I have accomplished over the past week.

You see we have a lot of trees, and with that a lot of branches to burn.  There are approximately 10,000 branches in the yard every time the wind blows, and short of buying a beaver and building a pond, we have to find something to do with them……so we burn them.

Unfortunately, the best place to burn them has also been the best place for Amanda’s garden each year, so something had to give, and someone had to put their foot down.  So I went to Amanda and let her know that something had to happen.

So the pictures are of the new placement of one of our gardens shed and the small fire circle that I put together to burn all the wood.  It is “near” the garden, but the garden is still in its place.  I suppose that means she was just lucky I wanted to do all that work.

But in the end, we will all be happy.  I will not have time to burn anything until Thursday.  It is Ash Wednesday tomorrow and priests still work on that day!  But on Thursday I will give it a go, and intend to be quite pleased with it.

It is no longer da mess……but yes, I am da mess ticaked.  Who cares though?  On Thursday I intend to have a great fire.

Goodnight my friends and God Bless!

Tommy+