Saturday, November 12, 2005

Campfire night!

When my daughter was a little girl we had campfires in the back yard by the fence. Her dad had dug a rectangular pit about 8 inches deep and it was between the back fence that bordered the alley and our 8 ft snap-set swimming pool. We would get a big fire going and it was a kid magnet. A good fire cost us two bags of marshmallows a night. One night, Erika, my daughter's friend from the next block down, got her marshmallow hanger red hot. She somehow got it off to the side and it ended up going through the wall of the snap-set pool about 3 inches above the ground. Because it was red hot, it just slid in there and we didn't know it until water was pouring on our feet and into the firepit. It filled the whole pit up and murdered the pool. It took a week for the firepit to dry out but the pool was done for the summer.

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