The Barbecue is Back!
The post-work party chicken barbecue has been a KSC staple for at least 15 years, and is a highlight of our club's culture. Kare built the barbecue/fire pit out of cement blocks and devised an ingenious way to grill and turn 40 pounds of chicken at once; he and Aase have been in charge of preparing the chicken their own secret way and it's very possibly the best grilled chicken you have ever had. Throw in a bunch of delicious potluck sides, some beers cooling in the little creek, tables and chairs set up outside on the deck, and you have one fun afternoon of eating and laughing and talking and more eating. The fact that the pandemic has kept us from gathering together for the last two years might be one reason why work-party attendance has been down lately. But never mind that -- the barbecue is back! At the snow-park cleanup last month, I noticed that the fire pit had fallen into disrepair and it made me sad; I have so many great memories of back-porch lunches a...