Live and Learn

This may or may not be a picture of a mishap that happened to us this weekend.

"What is it?" you might ask. "What the heck happened?" you might wonder.

Well...without incriminating ourselves too terribly bad we may or may not have since learned that this may not fully be okay with the area we live. We may or may not have since learned that this may cause bad problems for us. We may or may not have since learned that when trying to get rid of packing materials from our move from the Big City to The Country, packing materials don't fit into our trash bin that repeatedly gets full every week with trash from a family of 5 that only gets picked up once a week and may or may not leave us desperate to get rid of the boxes and packing paper in any way, shape or form, even if it may or may not still be slightly damp from a rain days ago. We may or may not have learned that trying to burn damp packing material may not burn per say, but smolder. We may or may not have also learned that when adding gasoline to help further the burning of said packing materials, the smoldering turns into flames that may climb up the pouring gasoline and catch the gas can on fire!

We may or may not have learned that when a gas can is on fire, shaking it only ignites mini fires. We may or may not have also learned that when you throw a gas can on fire it may start a grass fire even if it's rained a few days before.

We may or may not have learned that when grass catches fire, it's very important to have a water source available to put out the fire. We may not have one readily available. We may or may not have learned that when stomping out a grass fire, it may come right back if it is not completely put out!

We may or may not have learned that team work comes in handy when filling containers with water and rushing to put out fires. We may or may not have learned that putting out fires is a very scary experience and that you get very shaky and tired when the fire is out especially when you then realize how close the fire has gotten to your home.

We may have since learned that there are better ways to get rid of packing materials.

We may have learned that ignorance may not be bliss.

We may or may not be looking forward to the beautiful grass that will be growing in our back yard next Spring.