Tertiary. Do you like words like that? Sounds ever so more wise than ‘third.’
Language smackdowns aside, progress on the Big Stone Cooking Area continues to be rapid. Jay the mason says the bossman’s talking weekend overtime again on his day job, so he’s been pushing it on the weekends.
The door is attached and stone is going up around it.
Jay used flag stone to cap the flue between the firepit and the smoker.
Our gas ring for frying will be mounted in this open area. Jay used more of the flag stone for the back of this area.
Stone going up on the chimney.
The cleanout door on the smoker. So when we drop a chunk of smoked meat we don’t have to try to fish it out from the top.
The firepit has all its firebrick in place. Jay will top it with pieces of the same flagstone used to cover the flue.
Almost all the stone is on now. Just a little bit to fill in on top of the still-to-be-done countertop.
Spenser is giving it the sniff test as only a beagle (or a least half-beagle) can.
I think it looks good in the pictures, but the pictures don’t begin to do it justice. It is a work of art in real life.
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