One Life Stand

That’s right, the grill is open for business.  It was a lovely day yesterday (~73 degrees) so hubby mentioned firing up the grill.  I must admit I got a bit over-excited at the prospect for some reason.  So I jumped in the car and headed to Kroger to get some brats and steak.  Now that I think about it, maybe that was a devious plot by hubby to get me to go to the grocery store.  I’d been saying I needed to go but hadn’t actually bothered to do it.  Nevertheless, hubby worked it out yesterday.  We had the brats for lunch, the steak for dinner and will have the chicken he grilled for dinner tonight.

I took hubby’s car to the grocery store so that he could wash mine.  He was quite paranoid as I think that’s only the second time I’ve driven his car and the first time was into the garage from the driveway.  I’ve always liked small cars and his is a behemoth compared to mine so I’m not too keen on getting behind the wheel.  Not to mention, the SMG takes some getting used to.  I’m a purist and don’t really like ‘hybrd’ transmissions.  Give me a regular old manual, not that fancy-schmancy new stuff.

It’s funny though because hubby decided to take my car around the block when I was gone and for some reason felt the need to actually take pics of the deed.  I guess he was excited because he generally doesn’t get a chance to drive my car.  I’m not as confident in his manual transmission abilities as he is.  Everytime he cranks up my car, I get flashbacks of the herky-jerky that was going on when I tried to teach him in my Honda.

But back to the grilling, we really need to get a nice patio set this year.  Half the fun of grilling is being able to eat outside.  Last summer we tried eating in the hammock but that’s not a good look.  While highly amusing to onlookers I’m sure, I don’t like wearing my food.  I was tempted to get hubby to pull out the hammock but since the weatherman predicts SNOW FLURRIES for tomorrow night (remember it was 73 yesterday), I decided against it.  I’ll be glad when this schizophrenic weather comes to an end and I can put away my winter things for once and for all while.  I had just washed all my scarves and gloves to put them away for the season then we had snow last week.  So have a happy Monday and send some warm thoughts and weather our way.