Live action: Fire-pit and burger night preparation - Saturday night simpling

Welcome to my back yard, come on in, do ya want a drink? That's right folks, today's live action comes to you live from my back yard where I'm in preparation for tonight's...[Cue the trumpet fanfare]...Fire-pit and burger night!

I'll be honest, this is actually my side yard (side of house) however you get the idea. My wife made this area...Clever little thing huh? It used to be a concrete in-ground swimming pool until we had it cut up, broken down and removed. Now it's a garden area and the site of our fire-pit.

Here's me grinning like an idiot...It's the weekend so I grin...It's what I do. I spent some of the morning doing an inventory of the ammunition I hold currently so I know how much, and what, to make plus did some [much needed] tidying up in the workshop too. I've been to the market to get stuff for tonight and spent some time preparing the fire, which you can see in the background, for later tonight. All I gotta do is bang some rocks together and we will have fire! Caveman style.

Tonight I'm making my world-famous burgers served with fresh-from-the-market condiments and a side of parmesan, garlic and basil chips. Yep, you read that right, awesome chips! The burgers have a twist on them though; Not just straight burgers...No, no, no! I make them with 100% grass-fed Aussie beef [of course] then add a little cooked rice, secret herbs and spices, Spanish red onion, garlic and...The most secret ingredient, sweet chilli sauce, a South Australian one made by Spring Gully. Don't tell anyone that though, it's a secret.

I keep my burgers simple because I'm a simplton simple guy. Burger, cheese [old English], lettuce, tomato [ox heart tomtao's], red onion, tomato sauce [ketchup] and mayo on a toasted sesame seed bun. That's how I like it. Although when I have make-your-own-burger-session-gatherings with my friends here I generally provide everything under the sun for people to put on their burgers from blue cheese to pineapple, beetroot and any other odd-ball things my mates and mate-ette's like to make their burgers with. I've seen some interesting ones, for real.

Below you can see some of tonight's condiments and the buns. I haven't started making the burgers yet though, so no pictures just yet.

We'll be getting fired up around 1800H (6pm) which will leave us some twilight to eat by as sunset is 1806H - So light-ish until 1845H. It's just us tonight, Faith and I, which is cool by me. We'll be listening to some tunes and just hanging out together around the fire. Saturday night simpling.

We have wrought-iron bench seats around the fire-pit although sometimes we bring a rug out and lay on the grass instead; There's something magical about listening to a fire crackle and pop I think - Makes for relaxing evenings which we are sure to have tonight.

We're off for breakfast in the small town I was raised, about an hour away, on Sunday morning then are heading to a lavender farm in the Barossa Valley for a peep so a fairly chilled weekend all over I reckon...Saturday and Sunday simpling!

Anyway, I better keep moving and finish the rest of the preparation I guess - This could also translate to taking a nap of course. I hope you have a great weekend planned and deploy it with vigour and singleminded passion.

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P.s. I really wanted to call this post Got wood and know how to use it - a ribald jest. I decided against it though, not sure why...

Because I said it anyway. 😜😉🍆😂