fire and pics

Last night, as I was settling in for a night of catchup editing work (don't worry, Aimee and Justin, I'm on it), Mike bursts through the front door.

"You know what we need? A fire."

"A what now?"

"A fire. In the backyard."

And he starts running around the house as if he's looking for something.

"Are you OK?" I call.

"Yes! I saw the neighbors with one! A fire! We should have one!"

He drags from its hiding place a fire pit. A fire pit. We don't have a working doorbell and we use the dining room as an office - but, fire pit? Check!

It's this huge copper pot, basically, and he sets it up in the backyard. Now I see what he's up to.

"You know, we're going to need marshmallows," I insist. He goes out to get them, while I tell the Leaky helpers who were testing out a new software with us that I have to go, because we have to burn things now.

Mike starts grabbing fistfuls of twigs, and dragging over spare bits of firewood. A box erupts under his lighter, and soon we've got the Olympic flame in the backyard. We spent the night toasting marshmallows on chopsticks - at one point I amused myself by running around the backyard with a lit one in my hand, singing "Chariots of Fire." AJ and Maura came over, we sacrificed Teddy Grahams to the flame, and watched marshmallows glob and expand under extreme heat. It doesn't take much to amuse us.

And there are pics! Except, check out the new format of my pics at my new Gallery. I have wanted to get a good photo management system going, and even played around with the one Milly uses for her galleries, and then I learned how to do this one and I love it. It's ridiculously easy, and it took me about 10 minutes to get all my photos into it - I still have to bring all the captions over but that shouldn't be hard, and uploading all the galleries I have waiting on my computer should be cake, too. You can also comment on all the pictures, which I find kinda fun and funny.

Here are the pics from last night, and here's the link again to the main gallery. "Pics" on the side of my page goes to it as well, now.