Time to Grill & Surprise in my Garden & Moon

 Hello my dear online friends,

    Another hot one here on the lake (Lake in the Ozarks Missouri)   Since the boat is in the driveway we are taking the opportunity to give it a good cleaning. The sun is very hot here by 8:30 am already so we are getting ourselves outdoors soon after it gets light.

   I have most of the boat washed down now, even took the rug out and gave it a good sudsy clean, rinsed and should be dry now to get it back in place tomorrow morning.

  Larry with a new found friend worked hard today figuring out how to get the lift out-what a job this has been, since it's broken hard to get the floats up and out, but they did allot today.

  We have discovered the electric to the house is much worse than suspected. We have been here a couple years now so the problems have really showed up now. sigh-so no electric stove on while the washer is on. No dryer on while the washer is on at the same time. Also no laundry being done while the a/c is on-so tomorrow morning early I will get a load in.  No microwave on while the stove is on. etc

  I decided now was the time to bring up the smaller weber grill closer to the house. I have a very large one still next to the fire pit-that one is too heavy for me to move, but the smaller one is perfect for our meals. This small weber grill is at least 30 years old now, probably more. I have replaced the grate twice now, the little heat controls underneath have long been broken off. One leg is almost rotted out-but once in place still works to hold up the grill.  I don't usually grill-bake-cook outdoors during a hot summer, and being our main meal of the day is at 2 pm it's really hot out there-but there is a bit of a shady spot near the front door that I can sit for a bit, and here it's very close to the kitchen.

  So I grilled us hamburgers and made foil packets of onion, wedged potatoes, and and a big handful of frozen green beans. I no longer want my foods touching aluminum foil (allot of cons about that now) so I tore off a piece of parchment to place on top of the foil-and then added the veggies with a little olive oil and ground black pepper. I think the parchment paper kept the foods from sticking and burning too. Although, next time I will let the potatoes get a little more browned.

I also brought up the vintage milk can that was my stool for the floor loom for as long as I can remember-back in the 70's-works out well for a mini table now near the grill

I didn't get the grill marks on the hamburgers as my coals weren't as hot after cooking the veggies in the packets. so they cooked slow and stayed moist.

I added a little slice of horseradish havarti cheese on top of the burgers. There was very little horseradish flavor in this cheese so I didn't mind eating it haha. a very creamy cheese though

Next time I will keep the packets over the hot coals a bit longer, but the veggies were cooked through.

and smores-I actually made these in the microwave as the marshmallows are small stars. I used gluten free cinnamon graham crackers, Lindt dark chocolate, 4 little marshmallows-zap in microwave for about 12 seconds, add the top graham cracker-a perfect evening snack The marshmallow stars were red white and blue with different flavors

and surprise in my garden. I had bought a small bag of Victorian colors of gladiolas last fall-and sadly I caught the squirrels digging them up and eating them. Looks like three have survived-this is the first one that bloomed-gorgeous color

Were you able to view the gorgeous moon? I remembered to look out the wall of windows to the far right to see it rising-Soooo gorgeous. I was able to get a photo with my very old camera.  Once risen it was large and white

Happy Friday and weekend