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Yup. Cook at least a few on the smoker every year. Trick is to follow the muscle line to trim the point from the flat. It’s on a diagonal, that some folks screw up. That said, I prefer a pork shoulder to brisket.
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I've got a half pork butt ham ready to go, brother.
But that, I'm saving for Sunday. Because of God.
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Do you brine your pork? I usually just do a simple brine with molasses and salt. A great base for pretty much any rub.
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A half butt? Not really, it's got plenty of flavor on its own. A little oil is all it needs. Maybe some mustard powder.
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39 degrees, temperature dropping, and it's raining.... going to be cold for the next few days..... apparently winter got angry and kicked spring out
JUST ONE MORE THING!!!!
well, I am taking the weather as an excuse to rest up. I worked 2 days straight and need to recouperate!
Sunflowers are about 4 inches high, all 6 of them, the wild (feral) parsley agreed to the transplant.
But much is yet to be accomplished before I buy some chicks! (I know, crazy)
well, I am taking the weather as an excuse to rest up. I worked 2 days straight and need to recouperate!
Sunflowers are about 4 inches high, all 6 of them, the wild (feral) parsley agreed to the transplant.
But much is yet to be accomplished before I buy some chicks! (I know, crazy)
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Around here, we treat sunflowers as weeds.
I treat weeds like grass....
glad to have green stuff going. I just went way overboard with seeds this year. a square foot by a square foot I am eeking a 'garden' from my barren plot.
Went onsite to one of our clients yesterday. They had two computers that were out of use, and wanted to set one up for one of their users. Both had the exact same specs.
Spent an hour or so trying to get the first one to work-it was windows 7, about 10 years old, 4gb ram, couldn't even install office and they had special requirements they needed. The person it was being set up for was fine using his (work-issued) laptop. I told the main contact it wouldn't work. She asked me to try with the second, identical, computer. I let her know that it wouldn't work but she didn't have much for me outside of that so I tried anyway. Same result..who woulda guessed?
Spent an hour or so trying to get the first one to work-it was windows 7, about 10 years old, 4gb ram, couldn't even install office and they had special requirements they needed. The person it was being set up for was fine using his (work-issued) laptop. I told the main contact it wouldn't work. She asked me to try with the second, identical, computer. I let her know that it wouldn't work but she didn't have much for me outside of that so I tried anyway. Same result..who woulda guessed?
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I'm a bit of a weed whacker myself. The right gauge is paramount for a precision cut.
I'm currently on the lookout for a particularly nasty breed. It comes in hard with the Spring, and brings with it pestilence and sorrow.
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Happy Easter LPTv7
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I loathe yard work - mowing and such. And the traditional lawn grasses are not exactly native to this area. If you want a nice lawn here, it is going to be expensive and very labor intensive. So the area inside our yard is xeroscaped. Nice trees, bushes, etc, but it's all stuff that's native to this area, so it requires nothing. I have a guy who comes out and sprays a pre-emergent. Harmless to the stuff we want, and harmless to the dogs. But works extremely well. If anything green pops up the rest of the year, they come back free. There's about 1.5 acres outside the yard that we just let grow naturally. Got a guy who brings his tractor out and chops it down once a year.
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I too dislike yard work....sadly I have a yard with grass and Mrs Xue likes it so...I can't burn it off...so I have to mow it... but last years knee replacement was a GREAT excuse to higher someone else to take care of it...not sure I can use the same excuse this year
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Just tell her you're supporting small business to aid in their recovery from the pandemic. Or if it's a local kid, you're taking the opportunity to help them develop a strong work ethic.
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April 17, 2022.....and...it...is.....FREAKING SNOWING!!!!!
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That might work..... but the knee is not healing as fast as it should (wink, wink)....
Actually going to call the MD's office tomorrow to make an appointment...the length I will go to..just to get out of yard work
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It's spring..... And there is a snowstorm forecast for tonight and tomorrow morning. Where I live now only coating to an inch forcast, most likely a coating of slush. My old house, 4 to 6 inches..... a bit further north...... 6 to 8 inches.... welcome to spring in the Adirondack region
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Watched the Boston Marathon today, the only marathon I pay much attention to....probably because I use to live near where it starts
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