Fire Wise

We are in a drought period in AZ. Many fires get started from lightning strikes. Our local fire department wants everyone to be fire wise. We need to cut and rake out the dry grass.

Randy weed whipped the front portion of our lot. It looked so much better but we needed to do more.

The back section of the lot is difficult as one has to climb over and through lots of rocks.

We got a permit from the fire department so we could burn the brush instead of hauling it all to the dump.

Weed whipping definitely helped but we needed to hire someone to prune the trees up 13 feet from the ground and take out some of the manzanita.

Guess who supervised?

The next photos were taken after the pruning was done and manzanita was taken out.

You can see the rocks now and our lot is more clearly defined.

This shot is in the front of the house, facing the street, to the left of the driveway.

We also got a cord of nice oak to burn this winter......half the price of a cord of wood in CA.