Another bulky item to deal with today - the barbecue grill. My neighbor let me have his solid old grill several years ago and I refurbished the insides. It works well, but last time I used it the fuel barely reached the flame bar. I thought perhaps wasps had fouled up something with their mud packed nests. Today I decided to look at the hoses and see if it is fixable or if I should drag it to the curb and start over (new ones start at about $300, so I'd have to plan for getting a new one). As I prepared to remove the LP gas tank I realized that the puppy had bitten through the rubber hose from the LP tank to the cooker. That was when she was chewing everything a couple of years ago. So I'm out to replace that hose, clean the racks, and start grilling again.

Damned dog. She doesn't do that now, but I should have realized if there was something there she would find it. I was storing the grill under its cover outside at the time. That's how she got to it, crawled under the cover.

Omicron COVID has finally reached the immediate family. My daughter thinks she got it Saturday at work, yesterday she started feeling the sore throat and had a light positive test when she got home (she'd been isolated in her office - good thing). Today she got the PCR test and an Rx for paxlovid. It's helpful that the major pharmacies are still doing the drive through testing, since most of the governmental sites have shut down. She did have to go in the building where most others weren't wearing masks and got too close. She told several to back off, she had COVID.