Two Bonfires in One Weekend

So for Memorial Day weekend, we had not one, but two bonfires.  We might have gone camping, but everywhere was packed, and it probably would not have been that fun for Brittney.

The first was a cover for Benjamin's much anticipated proposal to Crystal-I assume it's spelled with a "C."  Without going into too much detail, we drove up all in the truck into a nice cove on west mountain out past Payson.  We ate some dogs and roasted mallows until Brittney was full and left, leaving the impression that we had to go jump start a friend's car.  That friend had meanwhile driven Benjamin's car to the mountain.  We left, he proposed, she said yes, Benjamin almost started a forest fire, and for those concerned.........they returned even before midnight.  In Benjamin's words, "the Eagle has landed."

That was Saturday, on Monday, after everyone ended their holiday activities, we returned to have another bonfire with Jeff and Chelsey, Jordan and Amy, and Cole.

We did the same thing at this bonfire, only we stayed longer, made a bigger fire, laughed more because of Jordan and Jeff, and I killed a rattlesnake. 

As you can see from the picture on the left, it was a true rattlesnake.  The picture on the right shows the carnage that can be done with a shovel when properly used.  Good thing the Easter Bunny brought me a shovel this year.  When Jeff almost stepped on it and yelled, Brittney ran to the truck and sat inside, scared stiff.  The snake had slithered into a bush, so naturally we went after it with whatever weapons we had.  I was happy.  I've always wanted to kill or maim something in Brittney's honor. 

Needless to say, Brittney did not approve of my idea to make a baby rattle toy out of the snake's rattler.