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First there was our cookout, where I got to play with my new Char-Griller Duo and find that it works nicely.
Toy of the day was probably the charcoal starter; a tin tube about 7" diameter and 11" tall with a divider about a third of the way up. Holes in the divider and round the base. A sheet of newspaper crumpled up in the base, some charcoal in the top. Light the newspaper and in 10 minutes you have nice hot charcoal. No lighter fluid, no nothing extra.
We thought we would have a chair shortage, but we found a patio set at Krogers, some folders at Walmart, and borrowed a few from Joanne, and we were OK - we never needed the camp chairs that we had from England.
All in all we had a couple of dozen people; neighbours, some from Marcia's work, and old college friends who are still around.
Too many flies, but a good time was had by all...
On Sunday we left the house a bit after ten and progressed towards Nashville for Khen Moore's funeral. A good turnout - there were 49 people at the restaurant afterwards, so probably nearer 75 at the memorial itself. Naomi taped the memories, with the intention of making them available somehow. At one point we had a full-on thunderstorm outside, and the power went off for a minute or so...
Today: back to cleanup and working out what must be eaten and what can be frozen.
Footnote: the Pilot at I-40 exit 320 has regular at $2 33.9, which is good for this area.
Toy of the day was probably the charcoal starter; a tin tube about 7" diameter and 11" tall with a divider about a third of the way up. Holes in the divider and round the base. A sheet of newspaper crumpled up in the base, some charcoal in the top. Light the newspaper and in 10 minutes you have nice hot charcoal. No lighter fluid, no nothing extra.
We thought we would have a chair shortage, but we found a patio set at Krogers, some folders at Walmart, and borrowed a few from Joanne, and we were OK - we never needed the camp chairs that we had from England.
All in all we had a couple of dozen people; neighbours, some from Marcia's work, and old college friends who are still around.
Too many flies, but a good time was had by all...
On Sunday we left the house a bit after ten and progressed towards Nashville for Khen Moore's funeral. A good turnout - there were 49 people at the restaurant afterwards, so probably nearer 75 at the memorial itself. Naomi taped the memories, with the intention of making them available somehow. At one point we had a full-on thunderstorm outside, and the power went off for a minute or so...
Today: back to cleanup and working out what must be eaten and what can be frozen.
Footnote: the Pilot at I-40 exit 320 has regular at $2 33.9, which is good for this area.
