Oh yes, you can never have too much fire.

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My father came down to Burkesville with Norma and I to meet her parents. All went well. We burned a decently sized bonfire full of Cedar. In addition, my father had a chance to shoot an AK-47, and partake in the beauty that is the Undiscovered Country. After actually spending time in such desolate (1,200 people as of the 2000 census) farmland, good ole’ boy country, my father has determined that he may not actually like to live in an area where you can’t see your neighbor a mile away. Myself on the other hand, oh glorious primary source of randomness on this website, would very much like to live that way. Once a month trip to town to obtain goods, food et al, rest of the time spent on the farm with my wife, dogs, cats, wildlife and land. It’s all a matter of living simply and within ones means. I can do this, contrary to popular belief.

I am more at home in the words, on a farm, growing my own things, than I am driving to work four to five times a week listening to people go on about some worthless want, rather than an absolute necessity. It’s not that I don’t like technology and gadgets and human advancement, but more like there is an extreme concern over humanity’s inability to survive without it.

Do you know how to build a lean-to in a rainstorm and make it stable enough to stave off the winds and have it built in a proper direction for maximum protection, with only trees, branches, and brush laying around? No tools, just you and your bare hands, tennis shoes in a muddy forest. How are you going to obtain sustenance? Drinkable water? Do you even know what would happen to you if you ate only the meat from a rabbit that you lucked into catching, instead of eating everything from it; intestines, eyes, bone marrow? Protein poisoning is what you’ll get, rabbit meat is so lean that your body will begin absorbing itself to get other nutrients and fats that it needs, making you very ill and eventually collapsing and dieing, only a mere mile from humanity.

Maybe you should get together with some of your buddies, and go on a camping trip, and learn how to survive in the wild. Learn to canoe or kayak & how to properly set up camp. Do you know why you set up on a higher plain than a lower one? In case of rain, the lower camp will be more likely to flood than the higher one. I have known people who have died from camping on the river front because it was pretty, but while they were sleeping, a rain storm up the river, (which they ignored thinking the rain wouldn’t affect them) caused it to sweep their tents away. The children were saved, but their father drowned rescuing them.

So, long story short, look at the bonfire pictures and enjoy things burning.

Teh James