Tea Tree Oil
I’ll get to the tea tree oil stuff pretty quick here, but I need to vent. (Do you ever feel like that?) The title? Okay, so I’m getting a little laugh at myself in the title.
Yesterday it was unseasonably warm here, usual February weather is cold, 10-30 degree daytime temps, and 10 degree nighttime temps are really common. All this week though, it’s been in the 50′s and 60′s every afternoon. We’ve still had a few cold mornings though, mostly mid 20′s.
Anyway, my wife and I were out for a walk on the property this week, and there were a lot of dead branches laying around, many on our property. The US Forest Service came by last summer to mark out their boundary line by painting Fire Engine red skirts on the pines, and in order to get to the base of the line of trees, they slashed off branches and left them all over the ground to dry up, turn brown, and add to the potential fuel for a fire. Not only that, but the dead branches are just plain ugly.
We too had a few willows that have broken due to the snow load, and the fact they just rot and break naturally. All that dead wood sparked a burning desire in my heart, and I just had to have a burn pile! It’s legal here, and the neighbors don’t mind, mostly because the closest ones are a half a mile away, and a mile away respectively.
We can have a pile up to four feet wide, and that’s what I had. It was a hot blazing pile of dead branches, pine, cottonwood, and willow in a pyre that made my face a little rosy from getting too close a few times.
Which brings me to the tea tree oil.
Mom used to say, “If you play with fire you’re gonna get burned”. Need I say it? Mom was right! As I was putting another log on the fire, a fiery hot ember popped out of the flames and landed of all places on the palm of my hand and STUCK there! Ouch! I brushed it off as the searing pain of that little red hot coal made it’s way to my brain, but I now had a fast growing blister the size of the tip of a pencil eraser.
I cooled it off on the cold rocks and stones, and after I had finished supervising the burn pile another 45 minutes or so, I went inside and put tea tree oil directly on the burn. I did not dilute it, I just used it straight. Funny thing, it took the last little bit of pain right out.
This morning, one of my hands had a sore spot, and without thinking I looked expecting to see the burn spot. The burn was on the other hand though. The spot that was sore was from where a stick had gouged out a small spot of flesh, while the burn doesn’t hurt at all this morning. Thank You God for tea tree oil!
So long story short, now you get my title, Burn Pile Sparks Handy Tea Tree Oil Use. I know, ugghhhhh, bad pun.
Next time you get a burning desire to spark a little fire, make sure you have a bottle of tea tree oil on hand. I offer T-41 C-0.7 Tea Tree Oil from NSW Australia in nearly any amount you could want. Naturally, I recommend you buy tea tree oil here