Jul. 1st, 2012

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Sitting in [profile] zebra363's lounge room, watching Person of Interest, with freshly baked peanut butter/chocolate cookies and a cup of tea, glancing out the window occasionally at the alpacas moseying about outside in the paddock.

*wavy lines* Last weekend, after much PoI viewing.

Zebra - Come up next weekend and we can watch lots more PoI and you can even watch more Supernatural if you like.
Me - Yay, it's a plan!

Email from Zebra mid week - If you get here by 4.30 we'll have enough time to get the burning done before it gets too dark.

...should have seen THAT coming.

Random photos Zebra took from her previous burning and a lovely one of her property

I do enjoy bonfires, sitting under the stars watching the flames and the sparks. Throwing all the branches on is fun too, watching the flames leap towards the sky, though this one did seem a little close to a nearby tree. Comments from Zebra last night along the lines of "I could have thought this through better" and "it'll probably be fine" and "if we do accidentally burn down the nearby shearing shed we'd be doing the neighbour a favour" added a little excitement to the evening, given Zebra's track record. Though to be fair, she's only had one other fire even mildly get out of control since then, and she did go and check on ours later last night after we'd watched an ep or two.

Zebra has certainly done her best to make my visit comfortable. Freshly baked cookies last night and this morning for breakfast, sacrificing both our environmental principles to light her first and last fire of the year to keep the house warm for me, piling FIVE blankets on my bed on top of the doona...I didn't actually use all five, since I had come prepared and am wearing two pairs of pants, two pairs of warm socks and two jumpers.

Now we're watching one more ep then we're going to go light another fire, yay.


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Zebra's post with photos
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More fun burning off today. It is very satisfying. So we'd built a bonfire and I was tossing the last few sticks from the general vicinity on it.

Me *watching the bonfire burn, feeling pretty good*
Zebra *calling* I'm just lighting this fire way over here now.
Me *doubletakes*
Zebra - It'll be fine. That one's under control, we can keep on eye on it while we do this one.
Me *walks over and stares at the new fire piled on top of one end of giant log*
Zebra I did that deliberately. The other end of that log will just smoulder away.
Me *stares at grass surrounding log*

Later...

Zebra - We can leave it and go back to the house for lunch and PoI now.
Me *stares at all the grass around the log we haven't yet had to stomp small fires out of* Or we could stay here and monitor this for a while longer.
Zebra - I could just go back to the house and bring back some lunch.
Me - Actually, I'm thinking we could multitask.

Multitasking )


Zebra's post with more photos
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Despite having spent a large part of the weekend at Zebra's, still managed to watch first season of Falling Skies with Dragonfly and Jody. What? It's only ten eps! I like it. Picks up eight months after an alien invasion, about a group of resistance fighters and civilians. Just finishing up the finale now and then an early bedtime - got to be up at 5.30am for child-related reasons *sighs in martyred way*

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