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18 March 2025

Yesterday afternoon, my wife and I were sitting in front of her shop when we noticed the smell of something burning. Across the street, a man was using one of those gadgets for burning weeds, and it seemed he had decided to use it on the pine needles under the trees. Unsurprisingly, the trees caught fire—who would have thought? Luckily, he managed to extinguish the flames before the situation got out of hand. My wife urged me to stop staring, but how could I not? Flames leaping from trees are hard to ignore. When it comes to cleaning up the fallen pine needles under my own pine trees, I take a different approach: I hire someone to rake them up.

"Flame is very near to smoke." - Plautus