I loves me a big project now and then

So when I told Jason he could buy a fire pit thingy if he'd let me put it somewhere that it wouldn't burn holes in my yard every time he wanted to burn something, I'm not sure this is exactly what he had in mind:

That's 46 bags of pea gravel, a role of industrial-strength landscape cloth, three rolls of pound-in edging, a few bricks leftover from the patio I laid a few years ago, and a day and a half of my time.  And a bunch of grass I don't have to mow anymore!  Huzzah!