Evening entertainment in the Clarktic Circle

On summer evenings, Tim and I often ask each other "Brain Drain (Television), or Fire Bowl?"   The answer is usually "Fire Bowl."  In fact, we've been enjoying the fire bowl so often recently, we have started calling it the North Routt TV.  

Does anyone know what kind of bird you hear calling in this video?

The exception to the fire bowl evenings, are when all I feel like doing is, this after a 12 hour shift on my feet.

Luckily, work has been relatively slow recently.  I have been able to stay home on call for many of my shifts, or at least go home early.  I have actually had to work very few full 12 hour days in the last couple of months.  Good thing, because when I am on my feet for that long, I have lots of contractions.  

Walter used to love to spoon with me when I would come home from work and collapse, in an exhausted heap, on the couch.  That no longer works so well with my belly protruding so much.  So we came up with a new snuggle position.  You should see the way he looks at me when Pebble kicks him in the head.  "Hey mom, what was that for?"

Upgrading the North Routt TV:

The copper fire bowl we bought three years ago has gotten so much use, that it was starting to wear out.  The legs were becoming increasingly unstable and the copper bowl is very thin.  Tim tried to re-weld the legs a few weeks ago, but it didn't work so well.  So Tim, being good at everything he puts his mind to, spent the day upgrading our "TV"

Tim welding legs onto the new and improved steel fire bowl

The new fire bowl, all ready for the next time we need to be entertained.