That’s Lindsey and me warming our hands on cold winter Sunday evening. The kind of evening that we should be inside making a pot roast and drinking red wine. Instead, we’re outside trying to make a small fire larger so that we can eat more sugar and chocolate . . . s’mores!!!!
This is one of those things that I didn’t know I wanted until I wanted it, and then I had to have it. To my surprise, such a fire pit can be acquired for less than $100 at our local home store (Lowes.com in our case).
The power company trimmed some trees before we bought the house and left several stumps by our mailbox. Yogi and I transported five of them up the driveway, so that we could offer our guests some comfy seats from which to toast their marshmallows. It would be cool if Yogi, being the industrious St. Bernard that he is, would have offered to drag the stumps up the hill. Instead, I hoisted them in my old beater of a ‘mobile, the Great White Explorer, and let Yogi ride in the backseat to watch.
We look forward to having you and you and you over for a bonfire one of these days – winter, spring, summer or fall!
P.S. – The fire pit set in our woods makes me want to buy a guitar, memorize the lyrics to “The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald,” and grow a beard. Oh, if only I had all the time in the world!