Piles and Eyesores

All weather conditions were good last evening to burn the burn pile.  If you're not from the country you may not know what a burn pile is so let me tell you.  It is a pile of stuff that needs burnin'.  We started one in the pasture in August because we begin generating a lot of non-household trash as the farmhouse renovation commenced.  Everyone out here in the country has piles.  Guess that didn't look quite right.  Everyone out here in the country creates burn piles.  Due to the drought last Summer there were statewide county burn bans.  We've recently had enough rain for the ban to be lifted and it was cloudy, humid, and still last night so we lit it.  The pile had grown to about eight feet tall and twelve feet around.  It was a biggy.  What happened was an old horse rancher came by yesterday to see if he might want to keep horses in our pasture.  I've decided I don't want to keep his horses.  Anyway, he saw our pile and said that it would be an excellent day to burn.  So we did.  It burned throughout the night and was smoldering this morning.  A couple of weekends ago a neighbor down the road lit about six or seven burn piles.  The only problem was the wind was kickin' and blowin', yea, straight toward our place.  I was grateful my metal box is basically air tight.  I just wouldn't let anyone come and go, opening the door and filling it with smoke.  That was NOT a good day to burn. Glad to see ours basically gone this morning.  It was getting to be an eyesore.