our lonely grill

Autumn began a week ago today. Summer came and went quickly. In fact, I don’t know where it went. And not once this summer did we use our outdoor gas grill.

The reasons are many. The summer started off mild and we didn’t feel the need to grill outside. We had a new stove with a grill burner and I loved using it with our grill pan. I enjoyed the fact that I had much more precise temperature control than on the outdoor grill. Then there was the fact that I was not allowed red meat until the third week of August on account of my surgery . No grilling hamburgers. By the time it started getting hotter and we thought about maybe grilling Terry was not up to the task of cleaning the thing. And any attempt I might have made at cleaning it would have been woefully inadequate.

So it’s autumn and our grill sat covered all summer. We’ll think about this again in the spring.