Sleepy Sunday

As I said, I went to bed early Saturday night, so I woke up, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at 3:30 AM. Not good! I tried to fall back asleep, but that didn't work. So, I read a book until 5:30 AM and then got up.

I ate the rest of the melons for my brunch and worked in the house. I never got around to fixing the kitchen faucet (is anybody surprised?).

I took a nap around noon and slept until 3:30 PM. I woke up refreshed, shaved and showered and headed out to Westborn. I got the veggies I needed, along with a dozen ears of Michigan bi-colored sweet corn, a pack of Dearborn natural casing hot dogs and one impulse buy: a head of cauliflower.

Back home, I treated the cats and unloaded the car. I trimmed the sweet corn, stuck it in my biggest stock pot and covered it with water. I lit up the charcoal chimney after rolling the grille outside. I gassed up the push mower and cut the front lawn.

Midway, I dumped the charcoal and refilled and relit the charcoal chimney. I have a lot to grill today!

I wasn't really cutting the lawn, just cutting up the fallen black walnut leaves. When I got done, I put the sweet corn on the grille. I had already taken out the thawed rib steak, seasoned it and was letting it and the hot dogs come up to room temperature.

When the sweet corn was done, I moved it to the cooler side of the grille and put the hot dogs on. I pulled them off and put down the steak.

I husked the corn and put the hot dogs in a baggie for next week. I plated the steak and two ears of corn. I went in to watch my Sunday night shows.

The steak was too well-done for my taste, but still tasted good. The sweet corn made up for it, though.

I made sure the house was buttoned up before I went to sleep.