January Meme Day 8
novel_machinist gave me "fire starts."
OH BOY OKAY.
So my friend Jenna* and I were once upon a time in a Faire guild together in southern CA. This meant we paid nominal dues and kitchen fees, and in return we could go to two local Renaissance Faires with our guild and hang out and be local color without having to pay entrance fees. This ended up being something like sixteen days a year so, yeah, really good deal, if you added up all the money. One weekend I did my "starving kid fund" schtick and people actually gave me enough money (and a brownie!) that I came out ahead that weekend.
Now, guilds hung out the whole time, so we were on site for forty-eight hours. The various locations got pretty damn cold at night, so we built fires to keep warm. Jenna was very good at building fires. Jenna liked fire. So usually we just gave her the fire pit (mobile iron thing) and left her to it while the rest of us set up camp or made dinner or put stuff away, whatever. When we came back, there would be a nice hot roaring fire
One Faire was in the middle of a park, and our standard location was covered with wood chips. This is important.
So. One weekend we were making dinner, hanging out as it got dark, and Jenna was building the fire. We didn't pay a whole lot of attention to this because, well, Jenna always built the fire. She'd done it the weekend before, and the night before on that weekend. We were talking about something, I don't remember what, when our guild leader Maggie* looked over and said, "HOLY SHIT."
Jenna had built the fire so hot that the iron fire pit set the wood chips underneath it on fire, and was now watching the fire (in the fire pit, she didn't know about the wood chips) with a mildly disturbing grin on her face.
A lot of water, some swearing, and several minor burns later, Jenna was no longer allowed to build the fire unsupervised.
*Names have been changed to protect the semi-innocent. Jenna still likes fire a whole lot.
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OH BOY OKAY.
So my friend Jenna* and I were once upon a time in a Faire guild together in southern CA. This meant we paid nominal dues and kitchen fees, and in return we could go to two local Renaissance Faires with our guild and hang out and be local color without having to pay entrance fees. This ended up being something like sixteen days a year so, yeah, really good deal, if you added up all the money. One weekend I did my "starving kid fund" schtick and people actually gave me enough money (and a brownie!) that I came out ahead that weekend.
Now, guilds hung out the whole time, so we were on site for forty-eight hours. The various locations got pretty damn cold at night, so we built fires to keep warm. Jenna was very good at building fires. Jenna liked fire. So usually we just gave her the fire pit (mobile iron thing) and left her to it while the rest of us set up camp or made dinner or put stuff away, whatever. When we came back, there would be a nice hot roaring fire
One Faire was in the middle of a park, and our standard location was covered with wood chips. This is important.
So. One weekend we were making dinner, hanging out as it got dark, and Jenna was building the fire. We didn't pay a whole lot of attention to this because, well, Jenna always built the fire. She'd done it the weekend before, and the night before on that weekend. We were talking about something, I don't remember what, when our guild leader Maggie* looked over and said, "HOLY SHIT."
Jenna had built the fire so hot that the iron fire pit set the wood chips underneath it on fire, and was now watching the fire (in the fire pit, she didn't know about the wood chips) with a mildly disturbing grin on her face.
A lot of water, some swearing, and several minor burns later, Jenna was no longer allowed to build the fire unsupervised.
*Names have been changed to protect the semi-innocent. Jenna still likes fire a whole lot.
This entry is crossposted at http://bookblather.dreamwidth.org/418544.html. Please comment over there if possible.