FIREPIT

LAST SUMMER MITCHELL SCHUTLZ STARTED LANDSCAPING THEIR YARD, FOR HIS GRADUATION PARTY, THIS SPRING. WELL WE ALL ATTENDED AND SAW THIS COOL FIRE PIT HE BUILT OUT OF PATIO BLOCKS. AND SINCE WE ENJOY GOING TO MICHAELS FOR A GOOD FIRE, I SAID TO DOUG I HAVE THE PERFECT SPOT IN OUR YARD FOR ONE. GRRRRRRRRRUMBLE, LIKE ALL MEN DO WHEN THE WIFE MENTIONS A NEW YARD PROJECT. WELL I WASN'T THE ONLY FRANKVILLIAN TO PICK UP ON THE NICE FIRE PIT AT THE PARTY, WITHIN 2 WEEKS JEFF & SHARON FEICKERT WERE BUILDING ONE, TOLD US WE DIDN'T NEED TO TRAVEL TO MENARDS IN LACROSSE(WHERE SCHULTZ'S GOT THEIRS)TO GET THE BLOCKS, NORBY'S IN DECORAH HAS THEM. PRICE OF GAS NORBY'S SOUNDED LIKE A GREAT IDEA.
FIRST WAS TO GET THE SPOT READY, WE HAVE AN OLD FOUNDATION IN OUR BACK YARD, THAT WE ALWAYS USED AS A BURNING AREA, FOR WHATEVER DIDN'T FIT IN THE BARREL, WHICH SAT BESIDE IT. THIS WINTER WHEN WE HAD SNOW UP THE WHAAAAZOOOOOO, I COULDN'T GET TO THE BARREL, SO I SAID %#@$%#$^, AND CALLED A GARBAGE MAN TO START PICKING UP OUR GARBAGE FOR $13.00 MONTH, GREAT DEAL I THINK, NOW I CAN THROW ANYTHING AWAY AND I DON'T HAVE TO LISTEN TO DOUGLAS HOLLERING BECAUSE WHATEVER WOULDN'T BURN IN THE BARREL. SO DOUG AND I CLEANED THE AREA UP GOT RID OF THE BURNING BARREL, TRAVELED ALL OVER THE COUNTRYSIDE TO LOOK AT BRICK, WITH AS MANY MILES AS WE PUT ON WE COULD HAVE BEEN TO MENARDS AND BACK WITH ALL THE BRICK WE NEEDED. DOUG DECIDED ON A BROWN COLOR, EVERYONE ELSE'S IS RED, HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE THE SAME AS EVERYONE ELSE. SO WHEN WE FINALLY MADE OUR DECISION ON THE COLOR, HIM AND KOLLIN TRAVELED TO NORBY'S IN DECORAH AND WEST UNION BECAUSE DECORAH DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH, MORE MILES TRAVELED. AND THIS IS THE START OF THE PIT
NOW YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND DOUGLAS IS KIND OF ARTISTIC AND SO HE IS FUSSY HOW THINGS LOOK, HE MEASURED AND MEASURED UNTIL HE HAD THE RING IN THE CENTER, WHICH THE RING WAS GIVEN TO US FROM THE SCHULTZ'S STAGGER, BIG RING. AND HERE IN THE NEXT PICTURE TAKE NOTE OF ALL THE LEVELS HE IS USING, I THINK I COUNTED 3 0R 4. THIS WILL BE ONE LEVEL FIRE PIT
WELL GUESS WHAT HE DECIDED TO MAKE IT BIGGER THEN PLANNED SO NOW WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH BRICK, HE WENT BACK TO NORBY'S AND THEY ONLY HAD 1 LEFT, WILL BE GETTING MORE THIS WEEK, GOD I HOPE SO. WELL NO LANDSCAPING PROJECT IS COMPLETE IN OUR YARD WITHOUT????
RAILROAD TIES, HMMMMMMM WONDER WHERE HE GETS THEM. THIS WAS KORI'S IDEAS ALSO, HER AND HER BUDDIES ENJOY SITTING AROUND A FIRE, SO LAST NIGHT SHE TRIED IT OUT, SHE DIDN'T CARE, IF IT WAS DONE OR NOT, SEEMED TO WORK OK. WONDER WHAT HER DAD WILL SAY ABOUT THE ASHES IN THE RING ALREADY. I WILL GIVE YA A COMPLETED PICTURE MAYBE NEXT WEEK, NOW THE BIG DISCUSSION IS WHAT WILL WE PUT AROUND THE BRICK WHERE EVERYONE WILL SIT, DOUGLAS MENTIONED OUTDOOR CARPET, KAYLA MENTIONED USING THE OLD ORANGE SHAG CARPET WE HAVE IN THE BASEMENT, HOW REDNECK WOULD THAT LOOK. TIME WILL TELL. RUMOR HAS IT BRIAN & LISA SNITKER ARE THINKING ABOUT MAKING ONE TOO, ONE FRANKVILLIAN CAN'T BE OUT DONE BY THE OTHER. WE ALREADY HAVE PLANS FOR ROTATION OF FIRE PIT PARTIES FOR THE SUMMER, SO WE BETTER GET OURS DONE.

BY THE WAY I WON 1ST PLACE IN THE FIRST FLIGHT YESTERDAY IN THE GOLF TOURN. WAS A GOOD DAY

THAT'S IT FOR TODAY, SUNNY & HUMID & HOT & OVER 80
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