The lengths to which I'll go...

[mstevens]

... to avoid making good on my offer of a daiquiri on the terrace to cvchief.

About 13 hours after I landed I was hospitalized at Costamed with a 5 mm ureteral kidney stone. I was actually only in for around half a day before I was discharged to home. Between ureteral colic and the pain meds I got very little done all week. Certainly no diving.

If anyone is wondering, Costamed has very good nurses and specialists as well as a newer, better CT scanner than the one at my hospital.

We did end up having a parillada on my daughter's birthday, but by then the chief had left.

One thing I did get done was find a gas tank and get the regulator switched over for the local gas so the grill that we brought down in pieces in luggage over time was finally ready to go.

I also did some flying of my drone during lucid periods. Here's a link to a Hangar 360 Photo of Casa Suzana:


Click to go to a viewer page where you can click, drag, and zoom.

Thus, my record of weaseling out of my drinks offer remains unblemished.

 

[cvchief]

I am continually amazed at the lengths will go to not make those drinks.

I mean that is dedication....

Wow. I would have taking a 2 MM as good enough....

 

[Gdog]

But hey....!!! Love the BBQ grill!!

 

[mstevens]

II would have taking a 2 MM as good enough....

You can have it when I'm done with it. Which cannot possibly be soon enough.

 

[mstevens]

But hey....!!! Love the BBQ grill!!

I know, right?

It was on-sale at a pool and patio place in Nashua, NH. We'd gone in to look at a little clamshell portable grill that uses bottled camping gas. This was only slightly more. I wasn't familiar with the Napoleon brand, but a major brand in Canada. It's very similar to a Weber Spirit 2-burner, but (as trumpeted on each side of the box and all over the website) has a built-in bottle opener, so it's obviously tons (sorry... "tonnes") better.

It only took a half-day to re-pack it into 3 check-through friendly boxes which we got down to the island in batches, then most of a day to assemble it - heavy pain meds'll slow a person down. There may have been a couple of naps involved.

After conversion to Zeta! Zeta! Zeta GAS!!! it burns really well.

We decided to put it on the terrace instead of in the garden where our old grill literally rusted to bits because it turns out the tarantulas lived under the old grill and we didn't want to disturb them.

 

[snowdog61]

your 5mm ball bearing picture is deceptive - most people don't realize that an actual kidney stone faithfully mimics a sand-spur in reality. very scary

 

[gopbroek]

your 5mm ball bearing picture is deceptive - most people don't realize that an actual kidney stone faithfully mimics a sand-spur in reality. very scary

Sand spur picture, ouch.

 

[cvchief]

your 5mm ball bearing picture is deceptive - most people don't realize that an actual kidney stone faithfully mimics a sand-spur in reality. very scary

I, VERY thankfully, did not know that.....

 

[Brules]

Good thing it wasn't a full 7mm farmer john!