Topic: Little things that make you happy

[BWII]

I got the month of Sept free and my first gas bill in Oct is something like $70.  After that we're estimated at $235/mo.  I don't mind getting one month free at the end of the billing cycle, it's better than having them underestimate and having to pay for 2 more months I didn't see coming.

[valuator]

This is what my childhood sounded like....and how we've largely tried to raise the boy.  I think we get more flack from other parents than we do from the kid about this...

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/joanna-myers/kids-are-missing-out-on-the-good-old-fashioned-childhood-we-once-had_a_23214255/?utm_hp_ref=ca-homepage

Sounds like my childhood too.  I walked 15-20 minutes to school by myself starting in 1st grade.  Had the run of the neighbourhood on my bike with my friends soon after.  I thrived and survived!

So much peer pressure from other parents today for everything to be structured and highly supervised.  We decided our 3-year old is too young to have her evenings booked up with planned activities....she can do gymnastics and dance on Saturday mornings, but we want to keep what little time there is on weeknights available for her to play in the yard or really whatever she wants.  Kids have no time to be kids anymore.

[Bubba]

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[Solstice2006]

$17 union gas bill! Probably the lowest I have ever had.

Thought this number looked weird.  I confirmed, and I am on equal monthly billing, of $64.  Not sure why this one is only $17?  But it is still the lowest consumption I have ever had 30.5 m3 in the last 3 years...

What do you have running on gas
Besides the furnace , we have gas hot water tank, BBQ, gas dryer and stove

We have the furnace, and hot water tank only.   Tomorrow my new Weber Genesis is getting installed (via natural gas), and I will have him add a tee or whatever so I change my dryer to natural gas next spring. 

Stove is not a possibility, due to the layout of the kitchen.  Nothing is impossible I guess, but the work to have it vented properly, would be worth more than the stove.  And I love the double oven with this range. 

[Ex-airbalancer]

This is what my childhood sounded like....and how we've largely tried to raise the boy.  I think we get more flack from other parents than we do from the kid about this...

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/joanna-myers/kids-are-missing-out-on-the-good-old-fashioned-childhood-we-once-had_a_23214255/?utm_hp_ref=ca-homepage

Sounds like my childhood too.  I walked 15-20 minutes to school by myself starting in 1st grade.  Had the run of the neighbourhood on my bike with my friends soon after.  I thrived and survived!

So much peer pressure from other parents today for everything to be structured and highly supervised.  We decided our 3-year old is too young to have her evenings booked up with planned activities....she can do gymnastics and dance on Saturday mornings, but we want to keep what little time there is on weeknights available for her to play in the yard or really whatever she wants.  Kids have no time to be kids anymore.

You have your 3 year old in dance and gymnastics already 
What wrong with unplanned stuff , just let kids be kids

[tooscoops]

i agree, but my wife does not.... has to impress all those other ladies on the mom groups... so our 2.5 year old is in dance, our 4 year old will be going for his yellow belt in the near future, both are involved in music lessons and all that fun stuff...

she wonders why she feels busy... because all these scheduled "playtimes" are annoying! 

[PJungnitsch]

Tomorrow my new Weber Genesis is getting installed (via natural gas), and I will have him add a tee or whatever so I change my dryer to natural gas next spring.

Nice! Going for the good stuff I see.

Our old Broil King caught fire after I replaced the burner and did a sloppy job of cleaning out the tub. Was looking at a replacement and the Genesis was very highly rated.

[Solstice2006]

Tomorrow my new Weber Genesis is getting installed (via natural gas), and I will have him add a tee or whatever so I change my dryer to natural gas next spring.

Nice! Going for the good stuff I see.

Our old Broil King caught fire after I replaced the burner and did a sloppy job of cleaning out the tub. Was looking at a replacement and the Genesis was very highly rated.

I am actually quite lucky.  A client of mine (her husband died about 1 year ago), decided to sell her rather large house.  She was having a moving sell, bedroom sets, living room furniture, dining room furniture.  Anyway, I made out with a 2 year old Weber Genesis BBQ  (about $1000 new) that looks brand new, 2 sling style loungers (about $250 each new), and a large outdoor rug (about $100).  I paid $400 total.

[PJungnitsch]

Would be interested what you think of it. Turned out Broil King was OK, but it is 15 years old and we barbecue almost every day so it's going to have to be changed up sometime.

[rrocket]

Would be interested what you think of it. Turned out Broil King was OK, but it is 15 years old and we barbecue almost every day so it's going to have to be changed up sometime.

I love my Napoleon.

But here are some top budget picks:

Broil King Signet 320
Weber Spirit 310
Napoleon Rogue 425

[CanuckS2K]

I honestly don't think I could go back to a gas grill now. 

[rrocket]

I honestly don't think I could go back to a gas grill now.

I go back and forth trying to decide.  I consider getting charcoal....because charcoal!!..but I already have a smoker (which does a better smoking job IMO)..and the ease of the gas grill is nice.

I've been waffling about getting a new grill for the last year or so.

[CanuckS2K]

I honestly don't think I could go back to a gas grill now.

I go back and forth trying to decide.  I consider getting charcoal....because charcoal!!..but I already have a smoker (which does a better smoking job IMO)..and the ease of the gas grill is nice.

I've been waffling about getting a new grill for the last year or so.

Once you go charcoal, you won't go back, I'd bet money on it.  As far as ease of use, I've never found it to be much time consuming to heat up.  I assume that's what you mean when you say "ease of gas grill". 

[rrocket]

I honestly don't think I could go back to a gas grill now.

I go back and forth trying to decide.  I consider getting charcoal....because charcoal!!..but I already have a smoker (which does a better smoking job IMO)..and the ease of the gas grill is nice.

I've been waffling about getting a new grill for the last year or so.

Once you go charcoal, you won't go back, I'd bet money on it.  As far as ease of use, I've never found it to be much time consuming to heat up.  I assume that's what you mean when you say "ease of gas grill".

I don't know that charcoal will sway me as I've cooked with it before. And the way I do my steaks (smoke first, then sear on grill to finish) would have no benefit with charcoal IMO.

 My buddy has a Kamado Joe which I quite like but while it's not hard or super time consuming to get it going...it's just not as easy or convenient as gas. I have another buddy with a Napoleon with an infra red sear area...and man, doors it get HOT quick and it's the best sear I've seen yet. Not idea beyond that how great/bad infrared is. He swears by it..but again, he also has a very nice smoker.

I think MAYBE if I didn't already have a world class smoker something like a Kamado might be more compelling.

[PJungnitsch]

The Grill Grate cover rrocket pointed me too really revolutionized how I barbecue. We do a lot of vegetables on it and I'd forgotten how much better it was until I tried on my brothers conventional grill surface and burned half of them.

Some of the funky new things we tried growing this summer like Kamo-Kamo and Tatutume really shone on the grill, turn all buttery

[rrocket]

The Grill Grate cover rrocket pointed me too really revolutionized how I barbecue. We do a lot of vegetables on it and I'd forgotten how much better it was until I tried on my brothers conventional grill surface and burned half of them.

Some of the funky new things we tried growing this summer like Kamo-Kamo and Tatutume really shone on the grill, turn all buttery

Yea, that's one product that falls under "way better than expected" and "must have".

Glad you like them...I like them too!

[Solstice2006]

Would be interested what you think of it. Turned out Broil King was OK, but it is 15 years old and we barbecue almost every day so it's going to have to be changed up sometime.

I will let you know in a few days.  Doubt it will be using much this weekend.  Not really going to be around.  Having a BBQ  party the following weekend though. 

[valuator]

This is what my childhood sounded like....and how we've largely tried to raise the boy.  I think we get more flack from other parents than we do from the kid about this...

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/joanna-myers/kids-are-missing-out-on-the-good-old-fashioned-childhood-we-once-had_a_23214255/?utm_hp_ref=ca-homepage

Sounds like my childhood too.  I walked 15-20 minutes to school by myself starting in 1st grade.  Had the run of the neighbourhood on my bike with my friends soon after.  I thrived and survived!

So much peer pressure from other parents today for everything to be structured and highly supervised.  We decided our 3-year old is too young to have her evenings booked up with planned activities....she can do gymnastics and dance on Saturday mornings, but we want to keep what little time there is on weeknights available for her to play in the yard or really whatever she wants.  Kids have no time to be kids anymore.

You have your 3 year old in dance and gymnastics already 
What wrong with unplanned stuff , just let kids be kids

She loves both....if she didn't we'd find something else she enjoyed.  Both are only 45 minute groups.  She's made some friends too, which is nice since we live in a mature neighbourhood.

[johngenx]

The Grill Grate cover rrocket pointed me too really revolutionized how I barbecue. We do a lot of vegetables on it and I'd forgotten how much better it was until I tried on my brothers conventional grill surface and burned half of them.

Some of the funky new things we tried growing this summer like Kamo-Kamo and Tatutume really shone on the grill, turn all buttery

What is this device of which you speak?

[Fobroader]

Nothing like a blast down a gravel road to clear the head

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