"Alan S" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:32:54 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>Hmmm... Perhaps it is just because we didn't have it much when I was
>>growing up. When we did, it was always a big deal. Oooh! Daddy is
>>cooking. We only ever had hamburgers. Perhaps hot dogs. I don't
>>remember.
>>I would never eat hot dogs so if they were served, I ignored them.
>>
>>We had a BBQ maybe once or twice a summer. I actually thought somehow
>>that
>>my dad liked to do it!
>>
>>Last year or maybe it was the year before, we got my dad a new set of
>>BBQ
>>tools and some cookbooks, only to find out just recently that he never
>>liked
>>it!
>>
>>Perhaps one reason why we didn't do it often is that we generally only
>>get
>>one really hot week out of the year. We're having it now. It was
>>much
>>nicer just to go to some air conditioned restaurant than to have to
>>sit
>>outside in the smoke of the BBQ. We didn't have the gas kind that
>>many
>>people do these days.
>>
> The pork chop and veges was delicious.
>
> It's the middle of winter here, it was about 20C(68F) at sunset when I
> was cooking

We were at the beach swimming today on this wonderful winter's day.
Daughter took a break for a couple of days and stayed in Caloundra with
a friend. I drove up with her two babies and my youngest (day off
school! lol) this morning. After lunch we went to one of the beaches. It
had lots of fabulous playground equipment, the water was quite warm and
one party member shouted us all to ice cream cones with sprinkles on
top.