Sometimes I don't understand people. I don't understand their motivation behind some of the things they do. That frustrates me more than anything because I don't understand why they do what they do. It must make sense in their own heads but I still don't get it. What happened to the old "treat others as you would yourself" thing? I think it's a lesson forgotten.
Anyway, I'm thinking of someone else and their story is not mine to tell. The current miserable weather is not helping my mood at the moment. The bad weather might be my fault too - sorry...
Moving along on to happier things!
I feel a bit more grown up! We bought a BBQ! Yay us! It's been on our list of things to do for years but for various reasons it just never happened. About a month ago, it was a stinking hot day and I was trying to cook dinner in my furnace of a kitchen. The neighbours over the back were cooking theirs on their BBQ. I decided I'd had enough and there was absolutely no way I was going to suffer through another summer of this! I decided to tell Dad that we NEED a BBQ and we NEED IT SOON because otherwise I'm going on strike and we'll be eating cereal with icy cold milk for our summer dinners. I think the smell of the BBQ next door helped him to agree...
We checked out all the specials and finally agreed on my new best friend. And let me tell you now - it's even better than it looked in the picture! Of course we had to put it together, but I didn't mind because the weather had cooled down a bit.
And then...
Of course it rained... For two days straight!
I was patient and waited - because I'm good like that - (actually, I'm not but it's my blog, so there) - until Saturday and decided I was going to use the damn thing even if it was snowing! So I did. And no, it didn't snow. Plus the rain stopped long enough for me to cook the meat.
Yes, it's true the steak was so rare it could still run around the table but the lamb chops and sausages were perfect. Nana, Pops and Shayla were lucky enough to enjoy my first attempt and Shayla was more than happy to protect me and the BBQ from our other neighbour (Mr 75). (Now I think about it, I think she was probably just protecting the meat...)
Since we've had the BBQ, it's pretty much rained on and off along the way. When we do get a hot sunny day, I'll cook on the BBQ and then it rains for a few days more. I'm starting to think the weather is mocking me. The weather is not my friend! Maybe my BBQ and the weather aren't friends. Now there's a thought...
On another thought, Foal caught chicken pox. That was fun because I thought he'd been immunised against it. Turned out I was wrong. (I know! I was surprised too.) Sadly, that was three days before the two week school holiday started. The really interesting thing for me about that whole thing was he didn't feel itchy. At all. Ever! The poor kid was absolutely covered in them but he didn't scratch once. I still don't understand it but the best I can come up with is he had eczema when he was a baby so maybe the chicken pox itch wasn't as bad as the other one. Or maybe he was just used to it.
Maybe that's the solution to my problem. Gather those people I don't quite understand together for a BBQ, give them chicken pox and then it will rain! Maybe then I'll understand those people... Probably not, but at least I can still blame it on the BBQ and the rain...
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