We just couldn’t resist.

We were cleaning out the shed and found the pit and set it up… just got done with planting the corn field… (g) and finishing the fortress of solitude and just basically hanging out at the moby and so we gathered up all the dead sticks from the empty moby in front of us and started our first pitfire.

We made the mistake the very first time we used the pit of putting one of those commercial fireplace logs in there and man, did that take like FOREVER to burn… and they are hard to put out, etc. So now, we just save up sticks and a few little logs or dried wood bits we find here and there.

No… no transporting of firewood for us… I mean like around the yard or our neighbor behind us has some nice acreage so we’ll scrounge right at the edge and he’s fine with that… we’re cleaning up the deadwood for him. Probably as the season goes, I’ll break down and buy a little bundle or two of small small logs… We like sitting out by the fire pit, but not for like 3 hours! hahaha…

Of course, like all good teenagers, my two are pyros at heart… I have to stay out with them or else I’m quite sure they would be in trouble in no time! (haha)

Actually, I wish we had some marshmellows… it would have been a perfect evening with a few smores!

And we had to get a little too carried away at one point… and added WAY too many sticks….

But that’s how the first fire goes! You have to kind of relearn what works and what doesn’t. In our park you need to have a lid on it, and it’s got to be on concrete and you have to play safe. Seems like we need to review the rules a little bit!

(On the lid thing)

((We have a lid… see it in the last photo? We just had to play with it for awhile and get it going and all… honest….))