Our New FirePit
After returning from camping and realizing how much easier cooking over fire is, and how much I missed it we decided to scour our yard for stuff I could use to make an accessible fire pit. We happened to find this round, heavy cement pipe. Have no clue how it wound up in the woods behind our house but well…it will make a great fire pit. We salvaged some cement blocks from a burnt out house and filled the bottom to allow for ash/coal fall and to raise the fire to a good cooking height. We reused a stove grill from our old dead stove which we will use to cook on.
Here is a picture of the fire pit with one of our cats laying on it. Don’t worry, Chester is brain damaged, but he knows enough to try to lay on the pit when it’s hot 
I was informed last night that the annual Crippled Critter Benefit event will be held on September 29 this year with a rain date of October 5. This years goal is to completely rebuild a kennel, but this time we will enclose the entire property. The wheelchair ramps really ate up a lot of space in the existing kennel leaving little space for the animals. Little grass and brush grows and since this is intended to be natural habitat that brush is needed. Cats love to build nests and dens in brush and in the summer months they lie in the cool tall grasses. While the always have access to an air conditioned space, they prefer the outside as most cats do. Grass is also needed for proper decay of animal matter and the space is needed for both humans and animals. Having a large animal family enclosed in a small space with humans is not the best environment for anyone. We plan to concentrate all efforts through the summer and fall to fully enclose the hard with a feline containment system and privacy fencing since our neighbors do not like the way we store salvaged scrap, or like to see or animals.
We are extremely involved in reuse/reduce/recycle. If there is any possible way to reuse something, or recycle something we use those options before buying something new. We are trash pickers, scavengers…we use what others toss away and we shape it into what our needs are. This is environmentally, socially and financially responsible…however many simply don’t see it this way and they complain about “junk” visible on someones private property and unfortunately for us, they have all the rights and we must enclose our yard to prevent them from seeing our salvaged items that we plan to use for recycling. It’s sad when environmentally, socially, financially responsible people have absolutely no rights. People just toss stuff away, let it enter our landfills which overfills them and causes problems for everyone. People who prefer to collect this stuff for reuse or recycling are seen in such a negative light, yet reuse and recycling is known and proved to be beneficial.
Anyhow, the only way to keep our animals and family comfortable is to properly fence in the entire property including privacy screening and that is our current goal before we start using reuse/recycle items for our gardening and kennel supplies.
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