All Lit Up

Last week was a busy week for the Prairie Restoration crew as most spring times are.  With spring being late just leads to long hours and all of us missing dad.  On Thursday we stopped by to see him and bring him and some of the other crew a much needed beverage.
I myself have not witnessed the details that they go into to perform a site burn, nor seen the gear that they wear, the kids thought it looked pretty funny but myself thought he looked as good as it gets.

Here is what we saw as we drove up, Blaine is spraying a section of fire keeping it in the area that they need it to stay, avoiding burnig any vegetation that should stay green.

Here is how he starts the fires, he has a small fire thrower that he walks down a path lighting as he goes.  The fire does not take long to start and pyro's that we are...were all excited to see it burn.

This is what it looked like after he rounded the corner, needless to say it was a matter of seconds for the grasses and flowers to be torched.  I can only imagine how quickly it can spread if it get's into the wrong area.

 This is what people will see from the roads, this causes some people to call in thinking that there is a problem, but as one would have it I was sitting on the road myself and the police were already inspecting to make sure no smoke made it on the highway.

Look'n good!  A close up of the fire gear that they must wear during their burns.  Looks super happy about my taking his picture!

 This is their Fire Truck, it has followed them around for some years now and has even been called to help in wild fires, has been on the news and has been a much needed resource for fires that have gone astray.  (Yes, tree's, barns and things of other sorts that should not have been burned...have been burned to the ground)

Blaine was not the only one lit up these days.  After much deliberation on what kind of music lessons we should sign him up for it was finally decided that school lessons was not going to get him to the road he has so eagerly wanted...they tell us he need 4-6 years of either piano or some other insturment to play his guitar in high school.  I personally don't agree with it so I signed him up at Marguerite's for weekly lessons.

As for me, I am still on my weight loss journey; I guess I took a little detour down junk food lane after I got out of the hospital and during Kayla's birthday but I am back on track this week and so far I have lost 1.3 pounds and have two more days until my weigh in so I'm sure hoping I can drop the full 2 pounds that I gained back.  As with everything in life, there are up's and downs, in this case...I'm hoping for more downs.