Once a year our town has bulk trash day when people can throw out large things (old furniture, couches, junk, etc). They usually have different zones & pickup dates for various parts of town. Normally a day or two before the pickup date as people clean stuff out and place stuff at the curb the streets are full of "pickers" sifting through looking for treasure (good people watching.. pickup trucks stacked high as they can go full of stuff precariously tied down)
This morning, the garbage trucks came through and took the majority of the bulky garbage. For whatever reason they sometimes don't take things (they left a few things we were throwing out).
We were away for the weekend and got home last night so I never even saw this get placed out on our street as we came home and it was dark (ugh.. traffic.. doubled our trip home).
So I was already running late for work this morning and I'm driving out of our neighborhood on the way to work when I spot a Weber! Somehow it managed to survive the pickers AND the garbage truck (which woke me up this morning as I heard it crunching junk in the compactor). I get to the end of my street and I'm thinking... Should I go back for it? I might eventually get one for my wife to try using (she has a disability)? If I leave it.. it could be a definite ending for this grill. I turned around and grabbed my wife's van.. and a few minutes later.. I rescued this:
It seems to be in pretty good shape. It's missing the grates. It's not the model with the gas starter or anything. I don't know what I am going to do with it yet.. I may just see if my wife can handle using the top, etc. Someday I think I'd like to find a green one w/ a gas assist start (with her mobility she can't handle the chimney). It may wind up finding a new home, but I'm sure as heck gonna get a few cooks out of it before I let it go.. so stay tuned.