Add An Outdoor Fire Pit To Dress Up Your Backyard
I Henman

We made the decision that we needed to make some adjustments to
our backyard. The backyard is secluded so we enjoy spending time
in it. We looked through many landscaping magazines, how ever we
weren't able to find a landscaping idea that we wanted to add to
our yard. The thought of having to keep up the maintenance with
a water piece wasn't appealing. Not to mention mosquitoes and
bugs are a plenty in our area, so a pond wasn't a great idea.

We went to a home improvement store and started looking through
the lawn and garden department. While we were browsing around I
noticed that they had a section for outdoor fireplaces including
a simple ring to create an outdoor fire pit. My husband and i
knew that we had found the new addition for our backyard.

In past years we had done a lot of camping. Since moving into a
rural neighborhood we no longer go camping. One of the things
that both of us loved to do was to gaze at the campfire and
just talk for hours. We agreed that an outdoor fire pit would
re-create those old camping evenings in our own backyard. We
are able to get a ton of firewood from the huge woods on the
edge of our property, so we wouldn't need to spend any money on
firewood.

Multiple options for designs were available at the hardware
store to select from. There was an outdoor fire pit which
offered the ability to bbq with the grill on top. Just recently
we had bought a bbq gas grill so the fire pit frill option
wasn't a need for us. We just wanted to keep it simple. We
bought a big fire ring as well as fireproof bricks. our
backyard area has a small depression close to the wooded area.
We figured this would be a wonderful place to have our outdoor
fire pit. The firebricks were positioned in a square shape
around the lowered area. Then the fire ring was sat on top of
the bricks. By placing the ring on the bricks we were
protecting from grass fires and also makes the outdoor fire pit
easy to mow around. We also got a couple of park benches to put
on either side of the fire ring.

We spend a lot of our evenings circled around our outdoor fire
pit. The interesting thing is that we assumed the area would
provide us a spot to to spending evenings talking. Now don't
get me wrong there is lots of talking that happens around the
fire pit, the majority of it takes place with our neighbors.
There is something about the smell of a wood fire which brings
neighbors out of their yards and into ours to relax around the
fire pit. We are still glad that we decided to purchase the
outdoor fire pit it's allowed us to get to know our neighbors
much better then if we hadn't.

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