Hey guys! Hope everyone is doing well. I think the weather has improved for most of us, so we will all be able to get out a little more. And thanks for the concern Amanda, there has not been any flooding where I live luckily. My area is prone to flooding and I did have about six inches of water under my car the first week I moved here in November. But nothing now.

I didn't really have anything going this month, so I compiled some pics and put them together in this posting. And most of them are of the mouth-watering bbq I made a while back. :)







On the left is about 60% of a Boston Butt that I got. I figured there was no way I could eat an entire one in any reasonable amount of time. And I am glad I did because it took about 2 weeks to eat all the bbq I did make. I didn't season it or anything being that it was my first attempt to make homemade bbq. So I just put it in the casserole dish and popped it in the oven for about 10 hours at about 250 degrees or less. At first it smelled really bad and I thought I had done something wrong, but that was the blood slowly cooking away (or whatever blood does). After 10 hours or so I opened up the oven to see this beautiful piece of cooked pork. :)










Out of the oven an into the pot to cool a little bit. Once it was a little cooler, I used a fork and my hands to just shred the pork. In the picture to the left in the pot, you can kind of see the bone on the left of the meat. It literally fell right off the meat. I've heard of the meat falling of the bone, but never the bone falling out of the meat. Anyway, once it was shredded it was ready to fix.








Ahh, the final result. A nice pot of pulled pork bbq with a can if Simpler Times. Nice fuckin combination if you ask me. The pic of my car is to show the work I had done on it. I wish I took a before shot to compare to, but I couldn't bare to see my car in such bad shape so I never took a picture of it. The work was unbelievable. Apparently, the guy who did the work used to paint Ford Buy-backs, and if the paint did not match, then Ford did not buy back the car. So he is very good at what he does. I also got the engine tuned up and four new tires. She is ready for road! (once I get current plates that is)













To the left is the spot where I would like to put the fire pit. Of course the Holly Bush would have to go in order to make room for the pit. And that means the first thing I would do in the backyard is cut down an old tree, and that kinda sucks. So, I have put that project on the back burner for a little while. On the right is all the things I have been up to the past few weeks. I took a few classes at the Norfolk Department of Public Health in order to be certified by the city to be a food safety manager. It was not necessary at my job, but I felt that it couldn't hurt to have on the resume some certifications. Plus the CPR and First Aid is just nice to know.

Wish I had more exciting things to show, but it has been kind of a grind this last month. The weather has just changed to Spring last week so I will try to get out and take some nice pics.

Take Care,
sh