It’s Wednesday evening, and at long last, we finally got to have the barbecue that was initially planned for Sunday. For a while there it seemed as if the universe itself was conspiring against us. First, on Sunday evening, the night we initially planned to have the barbecue, the electricity went out. It came back on about thirty minutes later, and just as we were about to open the refrigerator to get the meat out the electricity flickered out again. It did that off and on for a couple of hours. In the end we felt it was safer to just eat something quick and easy just in case the electricity went out and stayed out for a lengthy period of time. We didn’t want to be opening the refrigerator a lot and letting the cool air out if the electricity was going to be out for more than a few minutes. A good decision since around 9pm the electricity went out in Vado and La Mesa and didn’t come back on until almost midnight.

Monday evening was comical, as my grandfather was invited out to eat with friends and neglected to tell us. So just as we were getting ready to start barbecuing he left. We opted for Sonic that night.

Tuesday, well, who wants to stand outside in the rain in order to barbecue? Certainly not me!

So for the past three days we’ve anticipated a nice barbecue and ended up altering our plans. Have you ever been eagerly awaiting a letter (or email) about something fairly important, and when you finally receive an official-looking letter (or email) that you think is it, it then turns out to insurance quotes or something else way off? That horrible letdown feeling is how we’ve been feeling. To top it off, some of the dairy and meat products in the refrigerator went bad due to the off and on attitude of our electricity on Sunday. Disappointment after disappointment.

But today we finally got around to barbecuing!

It ended up being fairly simple since the hamburger had to be thrown up into the freezer lest it go bad before we could barbecue it. We had bought it on Friday with plans for it on Sunday. With the way some of the other stuff in the refrigerator went bad we didn’t dare take a chance with the hamburger meat. So barbecue chicken, grilled corn on the cob, green beans, mashed garlic potatoes, flower onions, and grilled veggies were tonight’s fare.