{"id":21715,"date":"2012-10-13T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=21715"},"modified":"2015-07-21T12:43:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T17:43:20","slug":"the-firepit-in-my-west-woods-is-ready-for-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-firepit-in-my-west-woods-is-ready-for-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"The firepit in my west woods is ready for Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I just returned from the firepit where I did a fall puja<\/a> to renew the energy before we begin using that space again.\u00a0 I unstacked all the bricks and stacked them together again a little different way.\u00a0 I’ve been using the chimenea for my burning bowl ceremonies<\/a>, so the firepit has become overgrown.\u00a0 I untangled the grapevines and cut the foilage back about two feet around the circle.\u00a0 It had encroached since spring, when the summer heat drove us to the east garden where it’s shadier and cooler.\u00a0 I moved two chairs up next to the firepit.\u00a0 Usually we sit on stumps of pine, but they are all rotting now and no new ones to replace them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

I placed a grill along the back 1\/4 of the open firepit to keep a tea pot on.\u00a0 The pit is about 18″ deep, with bricks completely encircling.\u00a0 One space for the firetender is about 18″ wide and 10″ deep.\u00a0 We keep one water hose on site ready to distinguish the fire.\u00a0 One thing I love about the city of Palm Bay laws about having a fire is that you can only do it when you’re cooking food.\u00a0 That makes it mandatory to have a picnic at the campfire!\u00a0 In go a few potatoes wrapped in foil, along with half ears of corn and cloves of garlic spritzed with olive oil.\u00a0 I can eat that for dinner every night.\u00a0 In the meantime, after I finish making a second grill top for my firepit, which I’m supposed to be doing instead of being in here typing this to you, I will then walk the yard and pick up some kindling and branch deadfall and have it ready for the next fire.\u00a0 I love having different yards I can play in different times of the year.\u00a0 The cycle makes everything old new again.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Last evening at the firepit
\n<\/a>Roughing it in my own woods<\/a>
\n<\/a>I spent full moon night out under the stars<\/a>
\nSpirit told me to ask Jane if she had a tent for me and she did<\/a><\/p>\n

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