Beth and Harold had a tree trimming company come to their house and take out some trees, and they were also able to come to our house and trim up our buckeye and the big pin oak. My heart started beating wildly when I came home and saw all the branches in the yard. Firewood!!
So, after dinner we decided to roast some marshmallows on those branches. Never minding the fact that it was beginning to sprinkle, we started a fire. Brad and Beth had some umbrellas, but I got an ‘instant canopy’ from the basement that took several minutes to assemble…. in a downpour.
It was awesome. I got to wear my raincoat with whales inside!
The whole experience was like cramming a week of bad camping into half an hour. We huddled by a smokey fire while rain dribbled down Brad’s back and into his pants. We roasted marshmallows over a pathetic flame while I held a smoke-filled umbrella over the marshmallows so they wouldn’t get soggy. We were cold. As my sister says, “Good stories never come from happy times.”
I tried to make a Fire Saver that was actually quite successful. After Beth and Tim went home and Lloyd and Brad were catatonic in front of the t.v., I had perfect marshmallow coals.
Those bricks are magic.
Brad says
Is there nothing cement blocks can’t do?
I was just glad that, after we were done roasting marshmallows, we didn’t have to go to some tent or crummy cabin. We just went inside and watched TV. Now that’s my kind of camping.
Beth says
It was wet. And cold. But the marshmallows were tasty. As was the Kahlua-laced hot cocoa.
I hate camping.
Deanne says
But that dry tent and warm sleeping bag feels soooooo good after you’ve been wet and cold!
Michele says
Well your good times are heading our way!
I smell rain! Fire up the grill!
Peggy says
What fun!! And I love your cinder block canopy…I was gonna say, ‘Is there anything cinder blocks can’t do?’, but that was taken.
Was Brad’s impersonation of Alton Brown the only entertainment? Tim seems quite intrigued with it.
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Lauren, next fire you need to break out your ukuele!
Curt says
There’s that The Garbage Co again. Are yall getting paid by them?
Curt says
Isn’t it crazy that yall are wearing jackets and sweatshirts in the middle of July? I love this weather. Is another ice age coming? Hope so. I want to kill one of those woolly mamoths. We could grill it over Lauren’s fire pit and feed the town of Seward.
Lauren says
I agree about the weather -- this is the very best weather ever! (I also agree about grilling prehistoric beasts.)