The Burning of the Christmas Trees
- Posted on January 25, 2021
Partner In Residence had an idea following the completion of the Christmas festivities. First, you might be interested to know that he loves a good backyard burn. For his birthday, he created a giant 3 foot Unicorn out of plywood and stuffed fire crackers inside so when it caught fire, it created quite a sound show to accompany the fire show.
Then for Halloween, he created 2 separate burns for 2 of the Saturday nights in October. The first one was in the shape of a demon head. It is a 3 dimensional creation where the fire burned in its’ eyes and we metaphorically stuffed our own demons in there to burn with it, setting us free.
The next Halloween burn was a bone burn, a bone fire, which is where the term bonfire originated from. He cut out and together we sanded each individual bone to be handed out and placed in a bone pile by each bonfire attendee. We then stapled each bone to a platform and set the whole thing on fire. Each bone represented something each of us wanted to let go of.
Now following Christmas, he had the idea to burn our tree so we would get an extra use out of it and enjoy another bonfire in the backyard. Apparently Christmas trees burn spectacularly. My daughter offered us hers as well and soon we found ourselves collecting trees neighbors had set to the curb. 18 trees later, we decided to set one on fire. I wasn’t able to grab a picture of that one as the wind had me worried the tree would go tumbling across the yard on fire. But he had secured it to a makeshift pallet stand. And now we have a yard full of trees to alight, on a less windy evening. What have you burned in your backyard?
Partner In Residence had an idea following the completion of the Christmas festivities. First, you might be interested to know that he loves a good backyard burn. For his birthday, he created a giant 3 foot Unicorn out of plywood and stuffed fire crackers inside so when it caught fire, it created quite a sound…