Getting Ready for Barbeque
W e always have our first barbeque of the season on the weekend that falls around July 1st which happens to be my birthday. This year, we had this barbeque on July 1st. If anyone is wondering, I turned 61 years old this year. Unfortunately, most days, I feel like I'm 81 and I have difficulty and a lot of pain trying to get around and I even look the part due to being hunched over and having difficulty standing. Contrary to how I feel on these days, my birth certificate claims I am 61 years old this year. We had a very dry spring to the point where everything in the yard was dying and turning brown but the past two weeks were filled with day after day of solid rain until the day before our scheduled barbeque. The rain stopped just in time for me to mow the lawn, do some much needed landscaping and set up the backyard for our barbeque. It was sunny, hot and humid with a bit of smoke from Canadian wildfires hanging in the air. My health didn't fare so well and I ended up