Really early this morning, I prepared a very large stump for its second burning. Dug out all around the base, cleaned out all the ashes, wrapped it with a 20 inch high piece of aluminum flashing. Piled on a couple of bags of charcoal plus a few of some pine tree discs leftover from the last burn. These work great - burn a very long time.
After my fire was blazing, I covered it with a tin piece. It could still breathe but if it started raining, it would not go out.
Then I took my chainsaw apart, cleaned out the funk and loosened the chain.
Before giving it up for the day, tried three times to saw off more pine tree discs from a fallen tree but everytime I took my chainsaw there, it would start raining and I would have to quickly put it into the back seat of the truck.
I went out and checked the stump around 8:00 tonight and am pleased and proud to report it is still burning. When the tornado warning went off this afternoon, I was thinking about my stump while I was shoving the dogs into the master bedroom bathroom. That is our tornado safety place. I piled lots of comforters and pillows in there and then I went outside to listen and see. That is what I do, it calms me down. The tornado ravaged my small city some miles away but though I could faintly hear it, it spared us.
