Sunday – 15/5/2016 – Barbecue

Morning everyone!

Feeling half-way decent today, knocking on wood that it last for a few hours at least 🙂

http://tucson.com/news/local/tucson-s-hidden-glorious-gardens-are-open-to-all/article_faea199b-18cf-52a5-8178-9cb1fa3efb3a.html

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff-nation/assignments/new-zealand-pet-of-the-day/14735549/Pet-of-the-Day-Clawedie-loves-to-stop-and-smell-the-flowers

Morning Deb! ….. the secret gardens are beautiful, and Clawdie is a star! ….. glad the head is cooperating today! …. hey, we’ll take what we can get, eh?
I’m so frustrated right now, went out to get in the car to run to the store, and it wouldn’t start :/ …. I’ll just have to wait til Mr. AV gets home, and looks like we’ll be at the auto/battery store first thing monday …
…. going to be a hot/muggy day here, I’m glad we installed new ceiling fans on the porch, it keeps a breeze going and actually makes it pleasant …. have a great Sunday all!

Good morning – love the red neck bbq (shopping cart)! Yes that’s something you’d see around here. Today is not a good bbq day, it’s very chilly and windy, much like other parts of the country – looking at you, KZ and KJ! Think I’ll take a container of soup from the winter out of the freezer for tonight. We do barbeque year round though, and even have “the grillin’ parka” – my dad’s parka that will stand up to any weather. AV, I’m sooo making frozen key lime pie later this month when family from out of state come to visit!
Hi Deb – great to see you here! Hope you keep on feeling up to par. I forgot to click on the links before I started posting, but thank you for them – you always post cool stuff.
KZ, dinner sounds fabulous! Lobster mac & cheese, drool…
I’ve been up since daybreak. Hubby was up and out early and I didn’t get back to sleep, so got up and out early myself, down to niece’s place to feed/scoop l-box/play with her kitties and still get back at regular breakfast time for the JJ crew. I’d like to stay indoors today, but the fencing I’m using for my peas to climb keeps falling, so I have to tend to that. Maybe I can nap later.

Good morning! Boy, gyms can hold a lot of drama, can’t they, KJ? My cousin who is like a sister worked at a gym that was non-stop drama, mostly related to manager/owner relations. She’s ain a better place now.

Maybe it’s a regional thing but I notice some folks use the verb “to barbecue” as “to grill”. In my mind “to barbecue” means “to smoke a piece of meat and add a tomato based sauce to it.” The other I call grilling or cooking out. Maybe it’s just a family difference. Either way I’m always surprised to show up to a “barbecue” and find grilled hamburgers and hot dogs. Now, I’m hungry for barbecue….our favorite BBQ place is just down the street….hmm.

AV’s and KZ’s Saturday dinners sound delish!

Getting ice now, BB. There are 4 cats looking at me from their shelters!
Ooh, I’m so mad, I had to block someone on fb. I don’t often post pictures of my cats to my general fb audience – usually keep it to TDKF – but there are many cat-loving friends who are not on TDKF. If you’re not going to say something nice about my cats, keep scrolling! *rant over*

JJ, all that I have to say is what on earth could someone say about your kits – or anyone’s kits for that matter – that would be nasty? No answers needed, let’s not give troll the energy. Yet another day when peep’s stupidity astounds me. And yet another reason why I am not and never will be on FB. Your kits are awesome, but you don’t need me to tell you that.

Good Monday morning all.
BBQ season has pretty much finished here with it being late Autumn and Daylight Saving over for six months.

Multipurpose but um no, not for me thanks.

Just had a big surprise, Shadz caught a sparrow and brought it inside. I had to take it from her and the poor wee thing was mortally injured and passed away in my hands. 😥 I has a sad. It may have been a common sparrow but it was a life that is no longer. Shadz was scolded. It has been some years since she has caught a bird and all I can think is that the approaching cold weather triggered some message that it was time to put on Winter bulk which she has finally doing in the last couple of weeks. She is well on the way to becoming HRH Butterball after being the thinnest ever this Summer. Guess I can’t argue with natural instincts but I can let her know of my displeasure.
PFG, love the pics, especially the four gingers calling for their favourite foods. That last one must be Shadz in disguise though. LOL at the redneck bbq, I posted one too.
Hi Deb, glad you are feeling at least half way decent, hope that means you are on the ascent for how you feel. Thanks for the links,lovely story about Miss Clawdette. Please ignore the anti-cat comments, they happen since a self important wealthy man has taken it upon himself to decide that cats should be eradicated here. Yeah right Gareth, that’s not going to happen here, we love our cats in NZ. Loved the hummingbird vid that was on one of them.
KZ, your dinner has made me feel hungry, I am so wanting Brussels sprouts but it’s too early, they need frost on them to sweeten them first and we have still been getting temps of about 20C during the day.
AV, that sucks monkey toes about the car not starting, I hope it is a quick fix.
JJ, the ‘grillin parka’ sound like a great idea. Hope the new pea fence is easy to install. Well that was unfluffy of someone to say something not nice about your outdoor crew.
KJ, sorry about the ‘drama; at the gym, all very disruptive I am sure.
ECB, interesting comments about BBQ-grill etc. Here we call it BBQing, I hadn’t heard of grilling until some TV programmes from the US were shown here. Smoking meats as in your description is not something that is really done here. So we cook food on the bbq and call it bbqing. Just to confuse things when daughter Airy was living in LA she had to ask what broiling was as her oven had a broil function but no grill. Seems it’s called broiling in the US and grilling here when you use the top element only of the oven to brown the top of something.
Wow BB, the weather really doesn’t know what to do at your place. Squeeee a baby squirrel.
Ice for BB and JJ, who is next I wonder.
Odd weather here today, definitely cooler and going from overcast to briefly sunny and now drizzling with rain and possible thunder later. Off to find something warm for lunch.

Well MS, you don’t know how many toilets I’ve seen as potential “street finds” but hehehe, that multipurpose idea, no way! Ewww!
Raining out and will not be surprised if it turns to sleep, yes it’s that cold.
Off to bed with hopes of getting srs sleep as 7 am spin class, meaning 5:20 alarm, then appt after class which I’d rather not be going to, but there it is. Nite all!

Hehehe you know where my mind was MS and I guess that I missed that day in touch typing class! Up now at o’dark-ish thirty to start a day that I hope won’t be as trying as feared.