burning trash

For the first 6 months of being here (while I lived at Barbara’s house and had 5 workers) I had no idea what happened with the trash. One of those day to day things that I didn’t have to deal with. It was there in the trash can and then it wasn’t. we did have 2 different bins—one for compost and one for trash but they never overflowed and I never thought about it. when we moved into the cottage it was something that we had to think about…we let it go on a little too long but finally we had to deal with it…we knew that people burn it. (asking questions gets you no end of answers) but where? There were burn patches everywhere and not in out of the way places but it just seemed so exposed. We thought that our downstairs neighbors might use a corner of the yard and that we could too so we asked one day and as it turned out it was not in the yard but just behind our fence. So early on a Saturday morning rhona and I ventured out to do it for the first time. Not too many people around but of course those who were out found us to be interesting. Now we have a housekeeper and so we don’t burn our own trash (very often). Last weekend we had the public holiday and then we were leaving town so we did it ourselves…not too interesting for pics but it is what has to be done.