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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
 Posted - Oct 30 2005 : 6:55:03 PM
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Oct 30 2005 : 7:41:15 PM
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Do you?
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
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BlueEggBabe
True Blue Farmgirl
417 Posts
Susan
PA
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Posted - Oct 30 2005 : 8:25:38 PM
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yes, yes I do.
Just the other night I was stirring my cauldron of chili over mah fire, dressed like Annie Oakley. What a vision!
www.feedsackfarmgirls.blogspot.com
"If more of us valued good food, cheer and song above hoarded gold,the world would be a merrier place."
J.J.R.Tolkien |
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
2206 Posts |
Posted - Oct 30 2005 : 8:28:40 PM
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Oh Oh and I was burning poopy straw dressed like a Kansan!!!
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Oct 30 2005 : 9:22:58 PM
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I want one..it is the the "plan"..but don't have one yet.
Jenny in Utah
Put all your eggs in one basket..and then watch that basket!! Mark Twain |
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BlueApple
True Blue Farmgirl
430 Posts
Julia
Oregon
USA
430 Posts |
Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 05:06:15 AM
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We have a firepit - my husbands pride and joy! LOL But it's just for building a fire and sitting around, not cooking - except maybe s'mores:-)
Julia
BlueApple Farm |
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greyghost
True Blue Farmgirl
650 Posts
Lynn
Summerville
Georgia
USA
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Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 06:23:09 AM
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| We have a "redneck firepit" leftover from the folks before us. It's just a dugout hole with the dirt piled up around it, and on one side we added some blocks to set a grill on. Nothing fancy, more of an eyesore than anything else! But later we will make a better one. |
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BlueEggBabe
True Blue Farmgirl
417 Posts
Susan
PA
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Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 06:48:38 AM
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Lynn,
best kind of fire pit, I say.
We dig ours out once or twice a year and add more big stones around the border to make it look purty. This year I dug out one side, too and built it up and laid a big grate across so as to grill, or warm a pot of whatever.
Also invested in a cast iron tripod to hang a grill or pot. Haven't used that yet, though.
www.feedsackfarmgirls.blogspot.com
"If more of us valued good food, cheer and song above hoarded gold,the world would be a merrier place."
J.J.R.Tolkien |
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westfork woman
True Blue Farmgirl
554 Posts
Kennie Lyn
Emmett
Idaho
USA
554 Posts |
Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 08:28:29 AM
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DH and I built a firepit for our friends. Their place is next the river with irrigated ground around it, so there is no fire danger, at our house we can't burn in the summer. So we built a pit at their house. We went to junk yards looking for metal of some kind to use. At the first place we went to we found parts of a rock crusher, big metal rings. They were so heavy the magnet at the junk yard couldn't pick them up. I though it would cost us a fortune since we were buying them by the pound, but it only cost us $50 for 2 of the rings. They loaded them on our 3/4 ton flat bed pickup, with a big loader. The flat bed went right down onto the frame, and squatted the tires. It was 50 miles home, it was a very long drive. Someone just happedned to be at our friends house with a backhoe, so he rolled them off our pickup, we welded them together, and the backhoe rolled them into the hole. We welder little supports on the inside for a rack, and DH made a very heavy sheet metal cover. The rings are over 3 feet across,and 3 feet deep, it uses a lot of wood. We finished the pit in time for a big party, about 150 people. We cooked a gigantic turkey, weighing in at 47 pounds, and several roasts, beef, buffalo, and pork. Having never cooked a turkey that big before, we put it in 7 hours before dinner. It was completely falling off the bone in 2 and 1/2 hours. We have never gotten a good idea of how hot the thing gets. We put the cover on it after the party, and 2 weeks later opened it up, and there were still live coals. The cover will support a charcoal grill, if we just want a quick meal. It is a very cool thing.
Greetings from the morning side of the hill. |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 3:02:30 PM
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Do you?
yes .. we have two .. one big'gun .. and one smaller one .. our little town just had a fabulous 'pioneer rendezvous' .. and there was a blacksmith there who is going to make me a tall three leg stand for 'hanging' pots from .. and a smaller iron stand for 'the coffee pot'. i've been collecting antique cast iron ware for about two years now and can hardly wait for my stand to get here! my largest one is a HUGE cauldron .. will probably save that one for when 'company's comin' .. but it will be such fun to just keep a pot of winter soup or stew or chili and COFFEE burnin' all the time! |
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LadyCrystal
True Blue Farmgirl
593 Posts
Alicia
Rhode Island
USA
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Posted - Oct 31 2005 : 3:39:06 PM
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We have a small one.It is just a dug out hole with big rocks around it.We use it in the summer to make smores.Or to snuggle around and watch.I find watching fire very relaxing.
Alicia
http://fromcitytocountrygirl.blogspot.com/
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Nov 01 2005 : 09:27:38 AM
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| has anyonoe here tried making the 'marshmallows' from MJ's book? and then making s'mores over your fire pit? (it's on my list of things to do this autumn!) |
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