How did I get so sunburned? I don’t remember being out in the sun that long. In any case, the big torch — at least the $30 one from Harbor Freight — didn’t work quite right. There’s a lot of water in weeds and you have to boil that off before a weed burns. A large leafy weed can take minutes to burn up. And then while the weed is burning, it puts out a lot of smoke and steam and if you have allergies, the smoke and steam isn’t all that pleasant. <\/p>\n
What you can do is start fires with the torch. Not that we, on a no-burn day, burned anything.<\/p>\n
We did finally made it to Industrial Café and Saloon and I guess the dinner chef is the husband of my sister’s grade school classmate. Perhaps a few too many degrees of separation, but still sort of friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How did I get so sunburned? I don’t remember being out in the sun that long. In any case, the big torch — at least the $30 one from Harbor Freight — didn’t work quite right. There’s a lot of water in weeds and you have to boil that off before a weed burns. A large leafy weed can take minutes to burn up. And then while the weed is burning, it puts out a lot of smoke and steam and if you have allergies, the smoke and steam isn’t all that pleasant. What you can do is start fires with the torch. Not that we, on a no-burn day, … Continue reading I don’t think that torch is going to work.<\/span>