This is set in the "Tales from the Blind Pig" universe.
Alex was a sight to behold as I finished up. He was the classic punch line of "What is black, white, and red all over?" I looked at the time, and offered to make lunch. As I got up, I noticed that he had a certain, uh, reaction in the southern parts of his body. As I headed into the kitchen, I said, "You might want to clean up as well. At his mortified "eek!" I started chucking despite myself.
Lunch was a nice hour long affair involving the two of us sitting out on the terrace and turning frozen burger patties into my world-famous "kitty burgers", as Kerry called them. I had one of Booster's bots take pictures of me wearing my "Master Griller" apron, chefs hat, and Alex took a close-up of one of the finished burgers, and I sent them off to the AVIS at the Ranch with instructions to show the pictures as a slideshow on every screen with the words "see what you are missing?" when Maya and Kerry returned home. Alex asked me why I was taunting Kerry like that. "Oh, it's a friendly 'getting even' for leaving me out in the wilderness while she goes and has fun in town. I'm sure she'll come up with something creative to get back at me later." We finished up lunch, cleaned up the grill, and returned inside to continue.
"So, Now that I've told you about the honeymoon, I'll tell you about the reception that we had two month later. Something had happened shortly after we moved that, uh, delayed the reception dinner.