Nice Spring day at Doyle Park.

I got up at 11:00 AM, Vicki and I went to Lucky's and picked up some charcoal lighter fluid. Then stopped at CVS for some diet soda pop.

Then we went to Franklin Park, there we saw that it was a little crowded and the picnic tables were all taken, so we headed on down to Doyle Park.  Doyle Park is beautiful, it's right on Santa Rosa Creek, and there are a lot of big oaks there.

We brought 4 chicken quarters, legs and thighs.  I saved some old used briquettes from previous users, added about 10 of my own briquettes, i made a little mountain of this stuff and then i added a lot of charcoal lighter fluid.  Whoosh, flames...

Added the chicken straight on the grill.  This is where i learned a lesson.
A.) I didn't bring a squirt bottle.  B.) BBQ Sauce is quite flamable.  When the
sauce drips on the coals it causes flames.   Normally you would quench the
occasional flames with a squirt bottle but i didn't have one.  So, adding A.)
plus B.) together we come to the following conclusion.  It is appropriate to
wrap chicken in foil before cooking, and let it steep in it's own juices.

Now the reason for going to the park in the first place was that i need practice setting up my tent.  I got the pieces out and looked at everything, gave a half hearted attempt to raise the thing and was unsuccessful.  So, tomorrow, i'm thinking about going back over there and putting some chicken in foil and cooking it that way, while the chicken is cooking, i want to enlist Vicki's help to set up the tent.  I feel reasonably assured that between the
two of us we can set this tent up.  If we can't well i'm just a sorry excuse for a man.

The park was real nice.  A gentle breeze was blowing. The sun was shining. The group next to us was celebrating a birthday.  There were probably 20 of them.  They were kind and even let me borrow a bic lighter to ignite my charcoal.  What kind of boyscout am i, not bringing a pack of matches to a BBQ?

Oh yeah, as a kicker, i forgot to mention, Vicki bought a pint of Macaroni Salad, and boy was it good with all those spanish olives in it!