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WATCHING the fire leaves

IF A LEAF flutters or blows away before it hits the ground when you drop it, do not light a fire,Yuin elder Auntie Trish told me. It’s the clearest, simplest to follow explanation of how and when to light a fire that I have heard. But when both the leaves and the fire authorities say it is okay to burn, a fire pit is wonderful.

A fire pit is just that –

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