It's Fire Pit Season!

I check the weather report and tomorrow, December 9th, the weather prognosticators tell us that we will be knocking on the door of 80 degrees for the high and 70 degrees for the low.  But, on the several cool evenings we've had, we've lit a few fires in our fire pit.  There are few things more relaxing to me than lighting a fire in the fire pit and sit around and watch it burn.  

Sometimes I'll get the fire stoked up too hot and we'll have to scoot the bench back a bit.  Other times the fire will die back a bit and we'll scoot it back up close.  Other than that it's just sitting there, peacefully watching the embers, listening to the coals crackle and pop.  The scent of burning hardwood is nice and the roaring fire takes the chill out of the air.

We're constantly gathering limbs that fall out of the many trees in our yard and stacking them by the fire pit to use as fuel.  Sometimes we'll wait for the wood to turn to red-hot coals and the daylight to turn to dark.

Then we'll swing the grill back over the fire pit and cook something for supper.  On this particular night, we warmed up some leftover homemade soup over the fire.

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like everything cooked outside tastes better!  (Many) more fire pit fires left to come.  With it being 80 degrees tomorrow, we'll likely not light the fire pit up tomorrow, though.