Mother always wanted me to build a new house where her old one stood. Before I could do that, the old house had to be emptied and removed. The emptying was quite a chore. All those things she saved that she might use some time, and 40 boxes of fabric and yarn.
To make the demolition quicker (and cheaper), we engaged the Eureka Volunteer Fire Department to use the house as a training site and then to burn it down. I didn't go to the actual conflagration, but my kids did and they got some neat pictures of it.
Incidentally, it wasn't out of love of the old place that I didn't go to the burning. It was too early on a Saturday morning.
The Fire Department people were wonderful and I can't possibly thank them enough.
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