A calm or gently breezy, dry day makes the job a lot easier!One, it's damned hard to start a fire with wet wood. How can you tell wet from dry firewoo...?If it feels cool or cold when held against your lips then it's too wet to START a fire with.It can be dried out by setting it quite close to an existing fire until the surface chars a bit, enough to catch and burn.It take a minimum of an hour or so, depending on conditions.If the weather's wet and the ground is soaked break off dead twigs and. It was usually barren of people, and I was able to walk around there.Moving through the trees, I walked out on the small peninsula and stoodthere watching the swans as they guarded their nests. Keenly aware ofwhere I was and the danger my being there presented, I did not plan onlingering very long, but waited almost half an hour before I turned andstarted back home."Hey! Lady! Hey!" I turned towards the voice. "Can you give me a handgetting the boat in the water? Just steady it for me."I didn't. Everything was going along swimmingly until later that Saturday evening. I was busy watching the usual Saturday evening game shows we watched every weekend. Eleanor was watching with me, only laid on her front on the floor in front of the TV. She was wearing her usual evening wear for a weekend. A long nightie, which she tends to wear more often than not, and a pair of baby pink knickers . I found watching the TV very difficult with her in front of me, my concentration being constantly broken. He seemed liked a pretty nice guy and he took his field very seriously. The other students in class were inspired by him and could come up with new, wonderful and creative pieces. I on the other hand only managed to slightly increase my skill. “Hey Tony.” His full name was Anthony Young, but he preferred us to just call him Tony. He looked up from his desk and gave that usual pleasant look that he always seemed to have. I wanted to sound professional and eager while making my request so that he.