What Sherry and I did Today

[scootr2d]

1 Hour worth of BX25 tractor seat time to level land = Fun
Pressure treated lumber to build box frame for gravel = $40.00
Gravel left over from Driveway pour = Free
Tractor tire Rim from neighbors farm down the road = Free
Slate reused from friends busted up patio = Free
Pine logs for firewood from clearing land =Free
Good times around backyard fire pit with family and friends = Priceless.

- Dave

 

[Johndeere3720]

Great job on using your resources! That is one nice fire pit! :thumbsup: The whole way that you wrote it sounds like a mastercard advertisement.

 

[hr3]

Nice job,, and your right priceless..:thumbsup:

 

[Thomas]

Gotta like it when plans comes together.

Nice..enjoy.

 

[Egon]

nice work!:thumbsup:

 

[jinman]

Nice!:thumbsup: Of course, the 2nd thing I noticed was your location, VT.

Now do you have any idea how to make one of those with an air conditioner instead of a fire pit? Today's temperature was in the 90s and muggy. Every day this week is expected to be the same with night-time temperatures no lower than the 70s. I think we are past the fire-pit season here in Texas, but I'm sure you will have many more days to use your gathering place. I even already have a rusty old tractor tire rim I could use.

 

[Thomas]

jinman.
"90s and muggy"
By the looks we shall be getting least one day this week of your weather.

Pit fire help keeps black flies and there cousin at distance..sometime..among those striped cats..skunks..also bandits..coons,if bear should apporach eveybody for themselves.

 

[scootr2d]

Nice!:thumbsup: Of course, the 2nd thing I noticed was your location, VT.

Now do you have any idea how to make one of those with an air conditioner instead of a fire pit? Today's temperature was in the 90s and muggy. Every day this week is expected to be the same with night-time temperatures no lower than the 70s. I think we are past the fire-pit season here in Texas, but I'm sure you will have many more days to use your gathering place. I even already have a rusty old tractor tire rim I could use.

I know right where you are , My better half is a East Texas gal . (Wood county , Quitman). I have family in Kaufman , and Longview , I brought Sherry north 10 years ago. She calls Vermont the Texas north forty - a place where Texans let their pulls pasture. :laughing: She visits Texas now and then, but never wants to return to live permanent because of the heat you mentioned , in addition she reminds me once a week , she doesn't miss the bugs (cockroaches the size of Volkswagens as she says), snakes, muddy water (her list is longer than this but you get my drift. (she does miss some of the fishin though.)

I lived in EL Paso for a bit and tell folks up here about swamp coolers and such and they just can't relate. It snowed on mothers day here in VT. We usually have 9 months of winter and 3 months of bad sledding and skiing.

 

[Stampeder]

Scootr2d

Great job on the patio and firepit......Great price and fun with the tractor....can't be beat!!

Jinman
I live in Wood county and next week looks to be just the same. Ain't it great......Chairs around the pool......priceless.

 

[jinman]

Thomas: We just went on vacation out west to Washington/Oregon, Yosemite, Mt. Whitney, and the Grand Canyon. We thought surely we would see a bear somewhere in our travels, but we saw none. We did see hundreds of pronghorn antelope and lots of Elk. When we got home and filled the bird feeder, one of the first to pay a visit was a raccoon that we had to run off and start bringing in the feeder at night.

scootr2d: East TX is much wetter than where we are. They get 8 to 10 inches more rain than we do in a typical year. However, while we were gone on vacation, we got a gully washer that filled and overfilled our lake to a level about 4' above overflow. Now with the 90 degree days, it's muggy, but the grass in the yard and the garden seem to thrive. I'll take our long growing season here because I'll probably have my first garden tomato this week and some Alaskan sweet peas also. I picked some young green onions and chopped them up for a salad this weekend. YUM! I like eating garden stuff in May.