July 5, 2006

entry for july 05, 2006 jul 5, '06 11:27 pm for everyone Well, yesterday was the fourth of July, and I had lots of family over, neither of my older kids bothered to show up, but that's ok, we had fun anyway. It rained like you wouldn't believe. Of course, it didn't start until after I got the fire going in the grill! Reference the above picture. You will see a grill, standing alone in the middle of a dreary backyard. That's because it was raining! I mean Noah's flood raining! By the way, that grill was full of hamburgers and hot-dogs. The rain was cold enough that it kept cooling the grill, and I kept having to go out and coax the darn thing into actually cooking the food I'd put in it! I couldn't get the temp above 120 degrees for the life of me, but I perservered. The running joke was that if everybody would come back in a week, the food would probably be cooked by then. Thank God, my brother-in-law James was here. He's an Ace grill-cooker, and helped tremendously, when he wasn't snickering about me having to attend the darn thing in the rain. But, all-in-all it was a good day. We had a lot of fun, and we all got to catch up with each other a little. Not something that we get to do much.©F.Pierce *Note* I later found out that James and Denise were very angry that I was able to buy myself a grill and yet not be able to repay them for helping with Laurie's burial. We had agreed that I would repay them as soon as I finished paying $500 a month to the IRS for taxes Laurie hadn't paid. We had an argument later in the year over it and have never talked since.