Out with the old, in with the new. It was time

Please do not call him a nosy neighbor. Tom was invited in to inspect and add his expertise to the situation.

Newbie

When we moved out of our Eden Prairie home in December 2000, we accidentally left behind our old green Weber barbecue grill, orphaned out of sight on the back deck. We reclaimed it later, and it's a good thing. . . we got 13 more seasons of steaks and burgers out of it.
It was time for a new one. We used our Lowe's Frequent Flyer miles, accumulated when we had to buy a washer-dryer-refrigerator last year.

26 steps to assemble. Our genius
son-in-law took a full day to put
together our grill in the 90s.
We passed on the opportunity
to do it again.

Our shiny new Weber Spirit was delivered yesterday morning and created a bit of a stir. There's nothing quite as exciting as a delivery truck backing up and beep, beep, beeping a warning in the cul-de-sac. Neighbor Sandy wanted to know if it was "the grill of our dreams." (You're forgiven for that, Sandy)
It's proudly parked on the back deck now, but it's still too cold to hook up the gas bottle. When spring finally does arrive, we're ready.
We hope we can get 18 years out of this one.

Good bye Old Paint. . . and old baked-on barbecue residue. The 18-year old Weber still works, but Kathleen was afraid of it. Something silly about an explosion and a persistent raging grease fire whenever you closed the lid.