OK, three days and counting until the BBQ people.\u00a0 Get ready to bring your “A” game.\u00a0 Actually, since the addition of the Band, I’m dreading the entire event like a root canal.\u00a0 No good ever came of a band.\u00a0 None.\u00a0 Takes up too much space, too loud, draws in all the riff-raff… just a general party-killer.\u00a0 Count me as “against” this idea.\u00a0 But I’m sure they’ll be great… Really…\u00a0 Come on down…
\nThat weekend was one big blur of BBQ and football.\u00a0 Friday I took the day off from work to demo our new “secret weapon” for the Royal.\u00a0 Naturally I can’t provide details, because then it wouldn’t be a secret weapon at all.\u00a0 I’ll just say it was a premium cut of brisket, provided by Martin’s neighbor Dave.\u00a0 It got good reviews at dinner;\u00a0 This could be the year I finally crack the top 50 percentile.\u00a0 Aim high, I always say.\u00a0 After dinner, Munkirs (the other half of “Team Brisket”) came over and spent some time prepping nearly 70 lbs. of brisket for the big party.\u00a0 Martin jumped in and helped out too.\u00a0 Normally you would not want a rib guy working on your briskets, but the sheer quantity involved kind of made it necessary.\u00a0 It was a rather daunting pile of beef to tell the truth.<\/p>\n
Saturday we took the dogs down to the “Strut With Your Mutt” event in Brookside.\u00a0 Overall I would categorize this little outing in the “Bad Idea” filings.\u00a0 Young Belle just isn’t quite ready for prime time yet.\u00a0 Just a little too exciteable, to put it mildly.\u00a0 We got lots of free puppy-swag though, so maybe it was worth it.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 After that thoroughly frazzling little walk, I headed up north to help out with the smoker.\u00a0 Martin had gotten up at the crack-o-dawn and put the briskets on, and they were coming along quite nicely.\u00a0 It was quite a sight really… the smoker was loaded to near capacity I’d say.\u00a0 Eight briskets, four slabs of ribs, and two chickens.\u00a0 We should be ahead of the game for our party this Friday after all the prep work we’ve been doing.\u00a0 The rest of the day was spent poking the fire, turning the meat, and watching college football.\u00a0 My kind of day.<\/p>\n
Sunday goes in the “Rest and Recovery” category.\u00a0 I broke out my “Food Saver” vacuum sealer that Donette bought me last week, and sealed up some of the briskets.\u00a0 After that, it was football and intermittent naps.\u00a0 Not too exciting really, but rather relaxing.\u00a0 Unfortunately, after Carson Palmer’s rather dismal outing, my Fantasy Football team didn’t fare too well.\u00a0 High score money is definitely out this week, I’m just hoping to pull out a win from tonight’s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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