It's just one of those things you have to deal with when you have a grill outside that sits unused for a season. Every spring, something will have invaded, and you have to chase it out before you can use your grill again. Every year here in Michigan, it's been wasps. They crawl into the main grill space, even into the legs through the bolt holes, and I have to go out there and hose the thing down with wasp spray before I can use it.

So I went outside this afternoon with the wasp spray, intending to do the deed so we could grill some steaks for dinner tonight. Imagine my surprise when I opened the grill and found this:



So I guess we won't be grilling for a while. I may be willing to commit genocide on wasps (hey, it's them or us, we have fatal allergies in the house), but the birds get to stay.

I don't know HOW I'm going to get the grill clean enough to use again, though...