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Just Another Summer Evening...in September

It is 9:30 pm, and I've just come in from having a bonfire with the kids in the backyard. I built the pit last summer, after looking around at the over-priced fireplace thingies you can buy for over $100. Instead I dug up some grass and a shallow hole, put rocks around it and called it a fire pit.

The kids love having campfires, and that is always one of the highlights of camping for them. So now we can enjoy one in our own back yard. We haven't done too many this summer, but now that it is September and we are getting our belated summer weather, we had one tonight.

(I'm finding out how easy it is to start a fire when you use the pine needles and branches from last Christmas's tree. What recycling!)

We asked two neighbor kids to join us. DH is away, so it was 6 of us total. We had a bag of smushed marshmallows and s'mores fixings, and the other kids brought marshmallows, too. Everyone was so excited and crazy and playful, and the crickets rang out in the rare moments of silence.

After a bit of rambunctiousness, I called everyone togethe to tell spooky stories, the most notable one being DD's: "One day George Bush was re-elected." That's me girl! I told a longer, more suspenseful one about 5 kids (all 5 of the kids present) house sitting a big house on the River Road. One by one, after the lights go out, each kid disappears, leaving the youngest one alone. Then the electricity comes on and he's glad to have the video games to himself, and he turns to see a space ship taking off with all the other kids on board.

Now the fire is out but the kids are still running around, and it does seem so summery, that fun outside crazy play, when the darkness is like a playground in itself. The crickets are singing outside my window. I smell of smoke. I think we'll all sleep well.

Posted by sapphire at September 18, 2004 09:38 PM