Monday

Another scorcher today, with yet another chance of severe thunderstorms this evening. I called the "Large Item Pickup" number during the day and told them I had an old charcoal grille I needed picked up. She nicely reminded me I was supposed to call "several days" in advance of my normal garbage pickup (Tuesday) but that they would squeeze me in.

So, when I got home, I took off the utensils and the hooks I'd screwed in to hold them and rolled it out to the road. Maybe not having a grille will force me to put the new one together. Then I went out back and weeded the raised bed garden.

Once inside, I changed clothes. But, before I put on my shirt I rubbed Gold Bond Medicated Cream on my poor shoulders (I know, it should have been something with aloe in it, but that's all I had in the house).

I started to de-bone the grilled chicken when the phone rang. It was Luanne and we talked for a bit. They are having a heat wave down there, too, but they are in the 100+ temperature ranges.

After we hung up, I called my Mom to see if she had any problems with the recent storms. She weathered them well (she would) and said she's going out to Orion on Thursday.

Finally I return to the chicken. I took the meat off all the thighs, leaving me with one breast left. I cubed the chicken meat and made it into a simple chicken salad by adding mayonnaise, diced celery, salt, pepper, tarragon and two tablespoons of fresh-squeezed lemon. I put a nice mound on a romaine lettuce leaf and ate that for dinner.

I watched TV until I got sleepy, then shut it off and went to bed. Oh, when I went to the bathroom before bed, I looked outside and the old grille was gone!