This blog is a shout out to my new friend, Stash. He’s here, in Romania, from Scotland helping with some construction projects on another camp across the valley from us. He’s a funny guy, who can throw a mean Frisbee, and he has insane bonfire lighting capabilities!!
The other night we were all set to have a bonfire and hang out but the wood was a little wet. They tried dousing it with petrol but it just wouldn’t catch! They tried putting a bag of trash in the fire and it burned up and left us flameless. And then they began to douse the wood with diesel, apparently it burns differently than petrol.
As all of this was taking place, Stash was in the background explaining that we just need to get a scooshie and fill it with the diesel, then we could scoosh it onto the wood and the flames would spread out.
The next thing you know Stash was on a mission to find a bottle, the bottle that he had in his room. It was just a simple plastic bottle with a cap on it. He filled it with some diesel, even though the fire had already caught, and poked a tiny hole in the cap. Like magic he began to scoosh the diesel onto the wood, which spread the flames from one side of the fire pit to the other.
After allowing Alex and I the opportunity to scoosh the fire we revisited the benches and continued on having hysterical conversations comparing Scotland and America; but I am convinced that Stash reminded us several times that it’s all about the scooshie when lighting a bonfire.
So, ladies and gentlemen, the moral of this story is that there are many ways to light a bonfire; but like the title says, it’s all about the scooshie!
