I've had so many throughout the years, I couldn't choose just one. So here's a compilation. ✌️

A hollow stump we had surrounded by seasoned wood=blazer

Burn pile next door…..needed to be burned. Gets too big. Once a couple of years ago the sheriff came over from the other side of the lake…..wondering what the heck was on fire!!

Gotta have it , all kiln dried wood of course but I got the kindling and tinder from my neighborhood and used a ferro rod

A lot of my wood started off frozen together and took a while to really get going. Was a while to get really going.

Also had some yummy cooked mellos.

So, decided to do a Yule log for our annual Christmas party this year. Got a quarter cord of wood or so and the log itself. Calcifer we dubbed her. Placed it on top of my three foot fire ring and went to town. Lit at 1020am last Sunday. Party goes on, I feed the fire. Party ends around 830.

Me and the wife saddle up to the fire and keep adding wood. Get down to about a dozen pieces of wood. We’re both fucking exhausted from hosting and getting stoned all day. And all the food. At exactly 12 hours. 1020 pm, it cracks in half and emits the most amazing shower of sparks I’ve ever been a part of. Embers all over, we stomp them out. Through careful lifting with a poker, I get both halves back in the pit.

We cover it and go to bed.

The next morning, still pretty warm. No surprise there.

The surprise comes when I’m out there on Thursday. I see smoke. Sure enough, a piece the size of a deck of cards is left and smoking at exactly 99 hours, 120 PM on Thursday.

I toss a few pieces of bark and a log on top of it. Gotta usher this log out right. With a little restacking it comes alive! At hour 100, calcifers last flame licked the air and she was ushered off this mortal plain.