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Now, readers in the northern US may say that I should be glad to be grilling in March at all. They underestimate one factor: rain.<\/p>\nIn 2007, the United States extended daylight savings time by three weeks. Europe did not. We will change our clocks this coming weekend.<\/p>\n
So tonight should be the last night that I must grill in the dark. Now, readers in the northern US may say that I should be glad to be grilling in March at all. They underestimate one factor: rain.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t raining when I decided to grill a chicken breast for Anita’s dinner. But this is Ireland, and a gentle but chilly precipitation began drifting around the sky by the time I started. It was a typical Irish rainfall. The drops are so tiny that they dance around like snowflakes. Rather than falling to the ground, they collect on every surface, whether horizontal or vertical. It doesn’t rain harder or softer — it’s more like the rain is more dense or less dense.<\/p>\n
It’s not an unpleasant kind of drizzle, barring windy or cold conditions. Our little garden is very well sheltered. And throughout the year, it will rain about every second time I decide to work outside.<\/p>\n
I don’t mind the rain. But I will be very glad to grill in sunlight for the next several months.![\"grillrain\"](\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/grillrain.jpg\" "\\"grillrain\\"")
Our only outside light comes from a motion-triggered floodlight. The motion-detector senses my presence only when I move to a spot that is exactly 10cm beyond my reach with a grill tool while standing near the grill. So I either grill in the dark (and mistreat the food), or I leap back and forth and brandish my spatula. Depends on my mood.<\/p>\n
Our neighbours must puzzle over the combination of flashing floodlights and American-style curses emanating from our garden.<\/p>\n
Fun fact (Well, it’s fun for some.) :<\/em> In the US, each time zone changes when it reaches 2am — in series, rather than all at the same time. In the EU, every time zone changes at once, at 0100 UTC.<\/p>\n In 2007, the United States extended daylight savings time by three weeks. Europe did not. We will change our clocks this coming weekend. So tonight should be the last night that I must grill in the dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,7,5],"tags":[524,261,526,522,528,521,759,527,121,525,523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div>\n![\"grilltools\"](\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/grilltools.jpg\" "\\"grilltools\\"")
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