So as if working for 7 hours in the 90 + heat on Saturday to fix up the front yard wasn’t enough, We decided to build a fire pit in our back yard.

We have always wanted a fire pit, back in the day ( 12 years ago ) we lived in a trailer on some land in south Cheyenne. We had a Burning barrel and always had a great time and good parties there. After we moved from there, we were unable to do such things because we rented. But know that we own our home we can do what we want.

So what we did here, Dug a hole and had to level it out. cause our yard kind of slopes. We made a layer of tapered bricks and laid them out in a circle fashion. Verified they were level. Then we took some of the rock I mentioned in my last post and filled in the bottom of the pit. We then added 3 more layers of the tapered brick. Finishing it off we took some sheet meat and placed it on the inside to kind of act as a shield and keep things a little better contained.

Cost for this project:

Brick: free we already had it. had we bought it: 60 * $1.89 = $133.40
Rock: free already had it. had we bought it 3 bags at about $6.00 each = $18.00
Sheet metal: 24″ X 10′ = $9.96

Total Cost: $141.36

Well it helps if you already have some materials in your possession. This weekend we took our front corner of our yard that was close to the street and spiffed it up a little. Unfortunately I don’t have a before Picture but here you can see what we have done.

First we took out the weeds, crabgrass, and weed looking tall flowery things out. doing our best to pull them from the roots. Then er took a small garden rotatiller and ground up the dirt. Good grief it was hard dirt. after that we smoothed it out and put down that black mat weed protector stuff. We planted a yellow flower Potentilla shrub. Put down a bunch of rock we had on the back yard left by the previous owners. We then set up a sand stone that we will carve into and a small battery powered candle lamp.

Cost:
Rock we already had: $0.00
Black edging already had: $0.00
Sand Stone: $5.97
Black Mat: $9.99
Potentilla Shrub: $19.99
Brass candle Lamp: $8.97
Beer to get the job done: $12.95

Total Cost: $57.87