Before we leave for Mr. Basketmaker’s next workshop, we wanted to get all the moving boxes we piled up in the backyard out of here!
I found the boxes for free from a lovely couple I found on Craig’s List who moved from South Carolina to New Hampshire. What a score! Not only did we get tons of cartons, but also piles of expensive moving paper!
I thought we could pass the boxes on to someone else but they were pretty beat up after getting their second life. And not a lot of people moving out of Tennessee!! (lol). So we decided to burn all the large-sized and damaged ones (boxes only – the paper we are recycling for all the shipping we do throughout the year).
And that’s what Mr. Basketmaker did last night. He created a large makeshift fire pit behind the house in a gravel area and spent hours burning the boxes. Right in the nick of time too — we discovered an extended family of frogs living under all those boxes we accumulated outside! Now that their shelter is gone, they can return to the nearby pond!
