Well, on occasion the wife and I like to sit on the back deck with a fire and an adult beverage to finish off the day.  Unfortunately, the standard store-bought fire pit is very small and requires a lot of work to get all those sticks to fit into the pit and not fall out and leave marks on the deck.

So, being a genius of the highest order I decided to scrounge up all the bricks and blocks on the property and build a large fire pit to accommodate larger sticks without so much work involved.  Works like a charm by the way.  As if anyone would doubt this logic.

Of course I built it on the deck so that our toes would not have to be in the icky, dew-damp grass.

But the next morning my keen eyes detected a small burn mark in front of the pit.  How could that happen?  None of the sticks fell out of the pit.  I made sure of it.  I'll just have to build that damned thing a little bigger.

OOPS!