I bought a new charcoal grill, the kettle kind. If I keep this one as long as I did the last I’ll be 68 when I’m done with it. Sixty-eight, dragging it to the curb. Some things you can’t salvage once they’ve been used so much. And I’ll be like that old grill myself, ashen and dirty with bent legs and bad coloring not worth hanging a sign on.
Bill Pearse 
You’ll always be worth hanging a sign on!!!
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Ha that’s nice Mark, thank you buddy!
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I, too, just got a new grill and put the old one at the curb yesterday afternoon. Rusted through, the grill rack threadbare. Some one grabbed it anyway. Scrap metal? I don’t know I used it 3 months ago… it still works.
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Ha ha that’s funny Jeff. Boy it’s the little things, right? I almost took a picture of it, thought man it will never be this clean again. The inaugural North Carolina pulled pork, why not.
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Now being a vegetarian, I’m not sure what to grill.
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Yeah there’s that. I hate doing so much meat but it’s kind of the best or only option I know. I’m not going to smoke artichokes you know. I find it easier roasting asparagus and so forth in the oven anyway.
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@Jeff Cann, Veggie Burgers! I’ve also seen mushroom caps.
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Yes you’re right. Plus shrimp and various other veggies. Beyond beef?
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That Beyond Beef rocks. I prefer it to meat.
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Five years from now we’ll learn about the changes it makes to our dna.
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Ha ha right. Hopefully for the better: fake blood by way of beet juice.
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Free to a good home.
Free to any home.
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Right! “Needs work.”
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There are THREE grills hogging space on our back porch! Only one ever used; one of the other two no longer works. I suspect they will outlast the man who loves to grill … my fingers crossed a 4th does not show up to join the clutter!
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I’ll withhold any jabs about calling you a hillbilly woman! You just need the drum out of a washing machine for your fire pit and you’re all set 🙂
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don’t forget old is gold 🥇🥇🥇
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Well put! Thanks my friend!
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Your warmly welcome
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it seems to be one of the household items that is hardest for people to give up, an uneasy attachment forms, the memories of burnt food and holidays never leave.
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New avatar Beth! Nice! Yes, finally kicked to the curb so to speak. Off with the scrap metal it is, at last.
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just like my old avatar
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A lot of nostalgic songs about this moment, parting with an old flame. The Platters “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.” The Earls “Remember Then” (Re-mem-mem-mem-ber, Remember embers, That night we fell in love.” Well, you’ll be bent & ashen, but exuding that great smoked meat aroma – – when they kick you to the curb, you’re gonna draw raccoons like crazy.
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You’re freaking hysterical man! Thank you for that. And especially for making me nostalgic to dig into some old time Motown stuff. I have a good memory of that with spring from years back and you just conjured up the Djinni on that old Hoss. Be well. Hope your spring is fab and restorative…thanks for being here! Bill
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Congrats for the charcoal grill. Already you are a maven at grilling words:)
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You’re funny Vishal…thanks my friend, hope you are well. I’ll think of you next time our grill smoke blows eastwards.
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I get my daily recommended allowance of rust and charred fat every time I use my old grill. Unsafe at any speed.
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It’s so satisfying to not thoroughly clean something or even feel tempted to simply by “burning it off” so to speak (the impurities). That’s a two-fer: no cleaning + the joy of leveraging fire. And hi! It’s great to connect again! Hope you are doing well mister.
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Ticking along.
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Tik Tok ya don’t stop, yo
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I think my grill will outlast me. It’s a low-end Kamado style, and the old mini-weber is crying rusty tears of neglect.
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Tears of neglect! Like that! My mom often says she’s on her last refrigerator.
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