Ok, so it’s been a month and a half since I updated this blog. For that I apologize. It’s been a pretty busy month and a half that has kept me from posting. That’s a lame excuse but it is the only one I’m giving.
To cover the month and a half lapse we start off with a storm chase the week before Memorial Day. Here’s a few pics from the Chasecation. Nothing too exciting, there is some decent video that I don’t have time to edit that will in all honesty never be posted, but even that isn’t much better than these pics. This trip did feature just about the largest a funnel cloud can be without being a tornado, the shortest rainbow I’ve seen and the brightest rainbow I’ve seen. In a few days I’ll post some info on the places to stay and eat in the Great Plains that we discovered on this trip. (Blog to do #1)
June was pretty much about the garden. We did one quick chase on a Friday evening that I’ll post soon. (Blog to do #2) During that chase we came across this Winery that I didn’t know existed. We’ll have to go back and check it out in greater detail in the very near future. (Blog to do #3)
Back to the garden. It’s been fully planted and everything is doing pretty darn good. Potatoes and garlic seem to be the exception. The potatoes did well last year but have all but died this year?!?! I also didn’t know that garlic was supposed to be planted in the fall. So we have some pretty small garlic bulbs. I’ll get some current pics up in the near future. (Blog to do #4) I have some pics but they are now about 3 weeks old. We ate the first Roma tomato last week. By the way, I hate raw tomatoes. I love fresh salsa and pico, but I hate tomatoes by themselves. Anyway the tomato tasted good, I still won’t eat one by itself. Made the first batch of salsa strictly from the garden tonight. Cilantro was the exception as the heat has caused it to bolt so we had to use some nasty cilantro from Big-V. However, the tomatoes, onions, serrano peppers and garlic were from the garden. It also made for good sauce on the tacos. There are hundreds of tomatoes growing as well as hundreds of several varieties of peppers. The cantaloupe and watermelon are blooming. The onions are ready to be harvested and the f@#!ing crabgrass is invading.
We had our 4th annual Independence Day party on the 3rd of July. I don’t know why I picked the 3rd instead of the 4th but it is a good thing that I did. We had some rain on the 3rd but a lot on the 4th. We went through 40+ pounds of brisket, one 12lb pork tenderloin, 1/2 slab of ribs (received in a trade for some brisket and a beer), and a case of hamburgers. There was not one bite of meat left over. The party went well with no one getting hurt too bad. Next year I’ll do 4 full briskets and one pork tenderloin. FWIW, on the first party we had 3 pork tenderloins and 1 brisket.
To wind down what is becoming a long winded post I’ll give a quick synopsis of the vacation we took this week. We didn’t want to take a long or expensive vacation after having the party last weekend so we ended up going to see the Zac Brown Band in Fort Wayne, IN. Reader’s Digest version. It rained in Hannibal, MO, we found a decent winery in IL (Blog to do #5), Springfield, IL is really only for Lincoln history buffs (BTD6), Fort Wayne, IN was a pleasant surprise (BTD7), it costs $6.10 in tolls to get through Chicago to see Gary and Coco.
(BTD7) is going to be posting the Iridium flares and Space Station flyovers that we go out to watch quite often.
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