KT and Dad go to the Lake

KT and I took a trip to Lake Mendota the other day because it was 53 degrees and I needed to get out of the house. ...-*ahem*- I mean, because she needed to venture out and see some sights.

As you can see from the photos, she was bundled up pretty well even though the wind screaming across the ice-covered lake was cold, she was still trying to push the woolen sock she's bundled in down and off of her 'cause she was hot. I had 3 different ladies, all of whom were holding some little kid's hand' that it was too cold for her to be out.

I politely told them all the same thing: "I didn't tell you how to dress your kid. Thanks."

Hey, at least I was polite, right? Yeah, I thought so.

C'ntr'ct'ns...

L've 'em!

Ev'r b'dy ought'a use 'em.

F'r Re'l.
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Surprising, but not Surprised.

So, my friend, JN, has a blog and I didn't know about it. I suppose that's my fault. I could have really taken the time to look at his info page on FB, but I'm lazy and only really use the FB for playing some games with the wife while I'm on the road and posting things I could, and probably, should, just post here.

But then again, what're you gonna do, you know?

This brings me to the point of this whole thing, if you can call it that, which is how many of my friends have blogs that I don't know about it. I really don't have anything important to say about this, but I thought I'd just as easily throw it out there. How many people do I know have blogs and I don't know about it?

And further more, why don't I know about them? Hpow come I got dropped out of the blog loop? I'm not hurt, and I totally understand that people are busy and they don't necessarily tell everyone about their blogs, but this is now the 6th friend of mine who's blog I have randomly stumbled on unknowingly. It's weird.

On one hand, I'm kind of curious about who all is reading their blogs, but then, on the other hand, it's not like I really tried that hard over the last year to keep on top of my own blog.

Weird.

That's pretty much it.

See? Nothing too big happened today.

Flew to Denver, learned about another friend's blog, did a bunch of work.

Hit that donut,
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Breaking Away...

I'm on my way to DEN...

Better Than Beer Can Chicken...Smoke 'Em!!

So I built Alton brown's now infamous ceramic flower pot smoker for my Summer of Grilling. But it's going into Early Spring, you say? So? So, I figure why not just keep it going.

Of course I smoked the pork. Twice. It gets rave reviews every time. But then I saw this thing for smoked turkey and the wife said "Okay, well maybe you should start small and see how that goes." So I brined 2 chickens (~3-4 lbs. each), whipped up a little rub and smeared it all over them, and smoked those.

OMG! Fantastic! I made a non-dairy French Silk Pie and served it as dessert.

Again, I'd love to show you pictures of the whole process, but there was kind of a SNAFU with my camera, so I can' show you the whole process or the end result. Okay, I lost the other pics, but I have this one of the birds brining. Trust me, totally worth doing. My cousin Jer asked if they were better than Beer Can and I told him they were so good they'd slap the taste right out of your mouth.

And they will too.