The Prine Family: First Fire

I love to sit by the fire and for awhile now I've wanted a fire pit for the backyard. I started looking at different designs and pinned a few DIY ideas on Pinterest. They were estimating the average cost at about $30. Well I don't know where they were buying their bricks, but I couldn't come close to that price. We kept looking for bricks, doing the math and deciding we'd wait for something more affordable. Fortunately different friends mentioned a place that sold their "seconds" for a few hours on Saturdays. We made it over their a few weeks ago and finally our fire pit became a reality.

The bricks ranged from .25/brick to several dollars a piece. We found a pile of bricks that had fallen off their pallet and the sign with the price was missing. Matt talked to the guy and offered .30 a piece. (Similar bricks were 1.80 a piece at Lowes.) The offer was accepted and we found ourselves loading the back of Matt's truck with bricks. It was our lucky day, because we were a few bricks short and Matt went the next Saturday to buy a few more and we had to pay .50/brick.

Unfortunately after we got our bricks at home and the pit built it was too windy to use it. Sandy blew through next so it took a few weeks before we were able to enjoy our first fire.

Lucy loves to sit by the fire. Some how she seemed to know that eventually there would be a fire there. Looking good, however Matt felt we should paint the actual fire ring so I had to dismantle the whole thing and construct it again.