whole again

at last, i have a grill again.

after a long stretch of non-usage, i got rid of the old one, which had reached the ripe old age of 35 (dog) years and gathered a fancy coating of rust, corrosion, and burner rot. for almost a year i went without a grill at all, then hops got me a tailgate grill for 10 bucks which we used often enough to miss the even cooking of a real grill.

so yesterday the new grill arrived. it's a weber genesis. it came in a gigantic box attached to a pallet. the deliver guy (a small carrier that i'd never heard of) brought it into the garage but it clearly would not fit into the elevator, so he dumped it by the elevator and left. i can't say i blame him: the shipping paperwork said it weighed 400 pounds, so we weren't about to manhandle it into the elevator.

fortunately, hops was on the way home. she arrived about 15 minutes later and we unpacked the box right there and took the grill parts up piece by piece. assembly took a rather long time, but only because step #2 was exceptionally tough. something to do with getting bolts aligned exactly before they would go through the frame. once i got to step 4 i realized i'd used the wrong washers in step #2. doh!! had to remove all the bolts and re-washer them. fortunately step 3 had made step 2 quite simple, so it wasn't a big deal.

once over the step 2 hump the rest of the steps were pretty straightforward. with hops' help we were done... in time for dinner! i hadn't planned on that. all we had was a couple sausages, which i grilled, and they were tasty. coulda done better with the sausages, and coulda done way better with some real meat. wednesday i'll be grilling up some fish, and from there out, it's grilling all the time. i've got a whole backlog of stuff to grill.