Yes, well, I’m polymerized tree sap and you’re an inorganic adhesive, so whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off of me, returns to its original trajectory and adheres to you.
The place where you grew up if you grew up in the suburban America of the 1960's.
Everything that was fun revolved around life on the patio. Fun and games. Friends and meat....red meat. Red meat and green salads. The patio wasn't just the center of suburban family life, it was a retro state of mind!
Since the beginning of time, the fire has been the center of family life. From the Cro-Magnon clans to the (post) nuclear family, the hearth (indoors or outdoors) has been the center of food preparation, warmth and general entertainment. The Patio Culture was no different.
The grill was the center of an exciting and fun evening full of friends, games, food and fun. Even in the winter or when the weather was bad, steaks were prepared and salads were mixed indoors as the electric stainless steel stove with the pull-out burners became a surrogate fire nourishing both body and spirit.
The Grill
This piece of equipment is the epicenter of it all. At our house, the grill went through a sort of evolution.
It all began with a simple round charcoal grill...
Progress dictated that once that grill had expired, it would be replaced with a semi-hooded rotisserie type. The top of the hood served as a shelf to hold plates, tools or beer.
Eventually the space age caught up with our cooking technology and a new jet black gas grill was installed. Complete with fake stone briquets, the gas grill provided instant fire...that is until someone dug through the plastic underground gas line and silenced it's mighty burners. Some of my last memories of that grill were of a post-nuclear Mad Max looking device, corroded and wired up, but still serving proudly by using conventional charcoal and lighter fluid. The things we do for meat.
Other Neat-o Stuff!
Several original AP World History lecture slide shows. Teachers, feel free to use! (PowerPoint)
HELLO GREG...DROPPING IN TO SAY HELLO. I LEFT SOME PATTER AT YOUR BLOG. I BOUGHT 2 MARTIN DENNY CD'S. CAN'T WAIT TO SWING TO THEM. HOW'S SHERMAN?? IT'S GREAT HERE IN TYLER (THE WEATHER IS WONDERFUL). CHEERS!
CHEERS GREG...CAN'T WAIT TO LISTEN TO MY MARTIN DENNY'S... HELLO EVERYONE! BE SURE TO WATCH TCM TONIGHT 9:00 CENTRAL. THE CLASSIC PICTURE FROM 1963'S "WHOSE BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED" WILL BE ON...STARRING DEAN MARTIN & ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY. CHEERS!
WELL THANKS! I LIVE & BREATH THIS ERA GONE BY, AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN LIVING IN THE POST WAR PERIOD. IT IS MAKING A COMEBACK INDEED. I DO WANT ALL THINGS VINTAGE EVEN THOUGH DESIGNS ARE ECO FRIENDLY AND UPDATED NOW. I KNOW SHERMAN HAS ALOT OF HISTORY THERE, AND THERE WAS A HOUSE I WANTED REAL BAD WHEN WE THOUGHT ABOUT MOVING THERE ONE TIME. IT WAS A KILLER RANCH HOUSE WITH THE STONE ON THE OUTSIDE AND A HUGE STONE FIREPLACE. WE BASICALLY LIVE IN TYLER TEXAS. I HAVE FOUND YOUR SITE TO BE VERY INTERESTING AND HAVE GONE TO YOUR PATIO CULTURE SITE. I'LL CHECK THIS OUT MORE. THANKS FOR DROPPING BY AND DO DROP IN MORE OFTEN! TERRI
THANK YOU GREG...OH BY THE WAY I HAVE FRIENDS THAT LIVE IN SHERMAN, AND I'VE ALSO BEEN TO DURANT OK. WITH THEM! COOL HUH?? I HAVE FAMILY WHO LIVE IN PARIS TEXAS...NOT AT ALL FAR FROM YOU. THANKS FOR THE FRIENDSHIP ON MY NEW PAGE! CHEERS! TERRI
