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Indoor Barbecue

It was perfect barbecue weather yesterday, but today the skies were cloudy and it rained off and on. It was humid and not quite hot and not quite cool.

We had friends coming over for a barbecue, though. I had everything ready and I was considering lighting up the charcoal grill under the roof outside the living room sliding glass door.

Eri said why don't you use that old electric barbecue plate that's been stored in the cellar forever. The "cellar" is just a space under the floor where we keep wine and ume-shu and back-up bottles of soda water and tea. And an electric barbecue grill.



It turned out to be perfect. My friend Michael and his boys Max and Milo arrived around 10:30, just after Eri left to go run her mama errands, and the fun began.

I stood and grilled in the kitchen for about five straight hours. The first course was hot dogs for the boys.



The drizzle outside came and went all day. We had a few windows open to keep a good breeze flowing through. I had the kitchen vent on high so the smell of barbecue would waft outside and let the neighborhood know that our house was the best place to be today.


The boys played all day long outside with the lizards and inside with their toys and took breaks for snacks, juice, hot dogs, corn on the cob, and to wipe down their heads from the humidity.




Michael and I supervised, drank non-alcohol beer (he had to drive), and ate a ton of meat and chorizo hot dogs while we caught up on how life is going. I queried about what he and his wife are doing about Max's after school activities with friends and outdoor playtime.

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