Evolution of a Country Burn

Bill and I both get spiritually rejuvenated when we sit together, drink in hand, in front of a roaring fire.  It's why we built an outdoor kitchen and fireplace at our last home.  We spent hours out there, enjoying the fresh air, the smell of burning wood... and the simple peace of being home together.  When you both have careers that take you far away for days at a time, these moments are precious.  When we moved down to the farmhouse we figured it would take a while to find that spot again. 

We started with the practical - a burn barrel, where we burned the branches that were forever falling down on our property, or trees that we were cutting and needed to dispose of.  We had the barrel too far away from the house, so Bill found a spot that made sense behind the house - in the center of a circle of trees.  Near the burn barrel he placed a few chairs to sit in while we were waiting for the trash to burn down enough to feed the fire.

As you know from the previous blog, we ended up tossing the barrel, and making a fire pit.  We found stones from around the property to encircle the fire.  Then Bill decided we should put all the chairs around the pit to make a great spot for social distancing gathering.  One night, he decided that he needed to hang lights around the circle so our area could have mood lighting.  It looks like a little fairy grove and makes my heart happy every time I see it lit up.

One night he mentioned that we should get stones, place another circle around the chairs and put gravel in the secondary circle so we wouldn't have to remove the chairs when our gardener came.  I told the story of moving those 77 stones in the last blog...  We ordered weed blocker and the egg rock last week - it was delivered today.  Two cubic yards.  At 2 pm and 83'.  I told Bill that my kids will love the fire pit because we were gonna die moving all that stone in this humid heat.

We spent three hours, but we did it.  This project is done.  So are our backs... but we're excited how it turned out.  The next two projects are inside.  Thank God for air conditioning in Georgia... but we'll be back out here later to enjoy the fruit of our labors...  MoonCrest is open for visitors around the fire... just holla out y'all!  The more the merrier any day.