[Smokin' Joe]

Oh, I'm not saying it couldn't be spectacular, or even fun, but I don't know if he has one of those anal-retentive HOAs that has a problem with unplanned ignition and backyard pyrotechnics...

Then, too, you don't want to be the monkey trying to put the cork back in, if you catch my drift..

[Salamander]

LOL!

All good reasons that I’m glad I live in the boonies.

So far, nobody’s ever questioned the random, sporadic conflagrations that occur in my back yard.

[I was cooking steaks over the fire pit...yeah...that’s the ticket]

;D

During one *actual* cookout, I had the fire pit raging and drove 6’ wooden poles into the ground on either side and put life-size ceramic human skulls atop them.

I could see the neighbors peeping frequently and worriedly out of their windows for *hours*.

The roaring flames caused such a lovely interplay of light and shadow across the skulls’ surfaces.

[yes, I am that weird....so what?]

;]