<font color="red">"but charcoal that looks like big chunks of burnt logs." </font color>

90% of all charcoal is from maple.
I didn't know that until I started reading about cooking with fire.

You did get the same grill. HD is where we we bought it. Our HD and Lowe's are side-by-side and I always get them confused.
I've used ours twice and it is so easy to use!