things 1 thru 4 . . .

do you have any idea how hard it is to try and dry off a grill while the sky is still weeping copious amounts of rain?

hard.  as in never ending.  until the tears stop.

thankfully, kidlet, who has turned into a damned fine grill master, managed to flip the burgers onto their plate and hi-tail it into the kitchen before the heavens opened but the grill was still too hot to put its cover on unless i wanted it melted to the grill like the cheese melted to the plate before it could make it on the burger.  true story.

so finally it let up enough for me to sort of swish it dry and get it covered.  i am waging a war against rust.  i will win.
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it is not a good idea to wash your polyester yoga pants in the same load with a no-sew fleece blanket that the cats had stolen for their own.  my pants are now furrier than the cats.
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true proof that I am not a sociopath.
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this is what happens when you see a monkey suit in Target:

kidlet will be warm this winter.