My brother and I went out to Cobourg to visit with our parents for Thanksgiving. I hit the road early Saturday morning to avoid the traffic. It was still fairly busy for that early on a weekend, but nothing too significant. I helped my mom with the food prep while my brother and dad went up North to close up the cottage. I just spent a few days up there first weekend in October. I was hoping for at least some sunny days, but it was cold and gloomy right up until I left. I spent most of the weekend curled up under a sleeping bag on the couch. Yet I didn't have the desire to pack it in early. I planned for one full day off in the city too to get the full impact of the vacation. I'm up to 8 days off in the last 14 mos. 13 days off in the last 26 mos. Still makes me cringe to put it in those terms, but it's never going to get up to a respectable amount, especially cumulatively. My parents had picked up a pumpkin pie from a local farm that was to die for. Best pie I've ever had, no doubt.
Work is a challenge as a coworker is working his way through immeasurably sad family circumstances. All we can really do is offer our support, and keep our noses down to keep up around the office.
Not a lot of new stuff going around here. AC is broken again, but just in time. And if my heater isn't working I can just turn the AC on, as it's pumping out hotter air. I'm a bit pissed. I'll call back the same company, but this time I will have CLR in stock so I don't have to pay for him to leave. I might also wait a few months to see if having it on heat resets whatever is screwing up with the cool. I wish I wasn't such an air conditioning prima donna. I just gots to get my chills on. I'm getting slightly used to sleeping with the window open, which increases the sound by more than double.
I'm planning on spending my day tomorrow doing a comprehensive fall clean-up around here. I think I need a checklist. Then a quick coffee with Adam, while he's in town again. And I've got another rack of ribs, I'm going to slow cook in my most favouritist bbq sauce. There was an unopened bottle at the cottage so I tiefed it.
I did some ribs last month but in a tomato soup dressing which was good, but I think it could be better with a proper sauce. Nothing will beat the fine taste of bbq ribs but I have to work with what I've got.
That's all for now. Hope to be back more regularly.
3 comments:
Well? Don't leave us in the dark... we're all waiting to know how the ribs were!
Lol. Welllll. I added a bit of flour to the bbq rib sauce to thicken it up, since everything turns into soup in the cooker. And it was wayyy too much flour. I ended up with little clumps of partially cooked bbq flour dough. On top of that, nothing will ever beat real bbqed ribs. That you can pick up with your hands and rip the meat off like a real carnivore. All that junk aside they were dang tasty. A baked steak can be alright, but will it ever beat a bbqed one? Perhaps not.
Ahaha oh no! Sometimes corn starch is good for that it dissolves a teeny bit better but you still have to be careful. You need more vacation!!!
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