Burgers

For the first time I decided to volunteer to host the Maple Lane 'tail gate' party associated with home games of BYU.  I had Adam's assistance getting the driveway and front patio cleaned up and weeded.  I moved my trailer, turning it around to camoflage the various items David had stashed next to his car, moving some of them.  I planted some chrysanthemums  I bought on sale from Home Depot several days ago.  I borrowed Lucinda's round grill and arranged tables and chairs around the front yard.  Nine families attended, the Grahams only briefly.  I had satiated myself on a very nice ribeye steak late in the morning and felt no temptation to eat any of the potluck offerings of other families.  I grilled over forty burgers.  I used cheap hamburger and that meant that they were juicy.  I received many compliments.  It was a success.  Afterwards Alden and Calvin helped me with the clean-up, bringing in the chairs and taking the serving tables to the side of the house.  Jane Dalley inquired what the party had been about and I learned that her name had been left off the e-mail to the other neighbors.  I will include it, although this would have been the best opportunity for her to attend since it was next door.  I had erected a temporary barrier to keep children from wandering into my back yard using a section of fencing.  She admired it.