Freddie P's Blog

June 16, 2008 @ 09:15

It was a great weekend at the trailer.

Me and my sweet headed up late Thursday night so we'd have the whole day Friday.

We woke up to the rain on Friday morning so we bolted into Peterborough to pick up my new barbeque at the Friendly Fires on Hwy 7.

Back the fall I had done a favour for my barbeque pal Naz Cavelarro during Grey Cup Week, and the return gesture was a Weber 320 which is the perfect barbeque for me.

It's sem-portable with a huge cooking surface and it fits on my deck nicely without taking up too much space. And talk about performance, heat the main responsibility of any barbeque and this baby gets up to 600 degrees in no time flat.

On Saturday night we did a couple of racks of lamb and some lamb chops and they were done to perfection because I was able to slap the bastards on with the grill clipping somewhere between 500 and 550 degrees.

Wonderful, just wonderful. Thank you Naz and thank you Danny at Friendly fires.

The weather turned out to be a bonus. Better than the forecast, so I was finally able to get my boat into the water. She's a beaut.

A 1987 Thundercraft with a 60 Johnson on the back. I've had the boat for 16 years but she's still going strong. Last year I put new seats in it, and this year I updated the cushions in the bow.

I don't spend a lot of time in my boat, so I don't see the need to invest in a new one. Not only that, but I've grown attached to this one and by making small improvements it's starting to get a vintage feel to me.

I'm keeping this boat for as long as I can. I should have taken a picture, but I forgot.

Instead, I offer the two "above" pictures of my friends. The first one is a close up of my buddy Dan Duran. Normally, he's a handsome brute, but I must say, in this picture he looks like a geek.

But let me tell you, the man is a wizard with a camera and my house if full of framed "Dan Durans."

The picture beside the "geek" picture is my friends Darren and Bruce. This picture was taken at night, with no flash on my little Nikon Coolpix 13. I didn't think such things were possible, but Dan Duran showed me it was. He's a wizard.

The picture was taken during the first "official" trailer party of the year. It took place at Duran's and featured good friends, good food and a couple of women who drank too much.

But I won't mention Pam or Jackie.

Instead, I'll leave you with this video.