Pyro Pyro

Some days I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing out here.

I moved to Iowa, where my husband has a house, and while I thought I'd lived in the Midwest before, some days I feel more lost than ever.

Here is one reason -

We don't have garbage service - meaning, no one comes and picks up our garbage. Yes, my East Coast friends, this is true.

Instead, we have two different "buckets" or trash containers. One is for food related items (onion peel, leftover stuff on a plate, ends of vegetables, egg shells...etc), the other is for anything NOT food related....but can't be metal or glass.

The food bucket is dumped outside.

The bucket of everything else is burned in our burn pile.

The first time I saw this happen, I honestly thought the tree near it was going to go up in flames. It was a bit scary. I've seen people burn leaves in a can before...but not their trash....all the time.

Well, I'm proud to say that after living here for 2 months, I burned trash, by myself, for the first time yesterday.

AND IT WAS FANTASTIC!!!

I had so much fun burning it all. It was so fun I ended up searching the house for more things to burn...found more...burned more... I was actually sad when it came to an end.

So maybe I'm lost sometimes, but the adventures can be very relaxing ;-)

...until the next time I light that pile on fire.... Wheeeeeeeeee....

- PyroMahoney