One of these years I'll make it to the Getaway. After I retired I was lining up my ducks, then COVID happened.

That big grill is a lot of work and you end up cooking way too much meat for one person, though charcoal cooking is delicious. I have a tiny tabletop clay brazier that was $10 at an estate sale. An image search shows Moroccan and Mexican versions that are great for one or two chicken breasts or steaks. There is also an LP grill the neighbors were going to discard that only needed new gas grill guts ($40 kit at your local Ace Hardware store). Last winter I replaced the gas line that Cookie chewed to pieces (another $40 at Lowe's). I use it maybe once a month in the summer for spatchcocked chickens. Anything else big goes in some kind of closed or open pan in the oven. The Romertopf clay baker, for example. (Do you still have yours?)

Watches have left the porch, and a lizard was sighted on the wall next to the water spigot. They're pouting.

This week it's back to the gym with better-timed activities (that put me in the right locale for the gym).