Don't think I said this yet, but Welcome Aboard! Keep up with the pics since a bunch of us here are challenged by all the reading required!
Thought it was time to bring this thread back from the graveyard. Had my annual party last weekend. This is me studiously tending to the fire on Friday night. The next morning there was still a good bed of hot coals so I decided to cook breakfast outside. That big chunk of wood is a silver maple stump I carved into a chair about 15 years ago. Time and weather had taken it's toll so we chopped it apart and burned it Saturday night.
Unfortunately this one was at the last house. I need to build a more respectable one here. For reference the dog is a 100 lb lab.
"Won" the pheasant ring at pheasants forever dinner. Highest bidder in a silent auction. Chairs are plastic. No maintenance.