Grillin' and Hot Tubbin'

At work this afternoon, several of us got on the topic of cooking. I'm not the best at it, but I do an ok job, and I can grill pretty well. That was the topic of discussion at work. With Heather closer to having that baby, if she needs to be resting, I'll take over the cooking for the evening. Today, with the temp here around 40 degrees, tonight, I was outside in a sweatshirt grilling one of our favorite meals, grill potatoes and steak. Ohh, was it wonderful. Now, I've packed up the grill, and put it back in the back of the garage. So, we are bundled back up and ready for the multiple inches of snow predicted over the weekend. Great.....

I'm not able to predict when the baby will arrive, but let me think here. The Trailblazer is having an oil change and light maintenance done, so we don't have that vehicle right now. So, we get some snow on the roads, make things a bit slippery and don't have our 4x4 vehicle, hmm, sounds like a time when the baby might try to make an appearance to me.....

Ohh, the other night, I decided to get ambitious and get a path cleared out so that I could walk in flip flops, all the way to the hot tub. It was 20 outside, and 102 in the hot tub. Ohh, that was a fantastic soak. Heather had to go to a meeting that evening, so I didn't even have to leave her inside alone. I sat out there for 45 minutes, and it was incredibly enjoyable. It was a great opportunity to check out the effectiveness of the newly purchased cover for the hot tub. I was stunned at it's weight. It was awfully light, and I couldn't believe it. I wonder how old the old cover was, but that's what made it difficult to use the hot tub was the weight of the cover. We found out that the life on a hot tub cover is 5 years or so. I'm thinking the one we had might have been the original, back in 1996. So, after this upgrade, which cost nearly as much as we paid for the hot tub, now all I need is to get the light inside working, and I'll be just pumped. All I need is a nice blue light inside, and i'll be satisfied. Right now, I'll just be happy for just being able to use it with a nice cover that I can actually lift.