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Happy Saturday dudes.

Going to a dinner tonight with old friends. Three couples, all of which are enophiles (winos) so bringing a few good bottles to share. Each couple will bring one mystery bottle and we have to guess what grapes and region. We have done this a few times and it's always a fun evening.

Happy Saturday! 45 degrees and sunny over here. Helping some friends move today, so thoughts and prayers for my back 😂

I welcome a Saturday.

Kind of yucky overcast morning with some rain but the Sun is supposed to burn it off this afternoon to get to the mid 50's for today and tomorrow. Maybe I'll fill the grow bags on the deck with soil in anticipation of planting the plants in a few weeks. It's still too early to put them out as the danger of overnight frost is still a real possibility.

DED, enjoy the wine tasting. I used to love those back in the day. There was a restaurant in Madison, WI where I went to college that would do wine tasting every Friday night. Italian restaurant and a wine cellar. We'd go there and eat then go downstairs to the wine cellar (they had a small lounge and bar downstairs) for wine tasting. For reds I liked a dry Merlot. For whites I preferred Liebfraumilch. At the time I didn't know all the differences of what is what but I learned through blind taste testing and my preference was dry for red and semisweet for white. However, it also depends on what you match it with for what your are eating too.

I don't drink wine anymore but still cook with it. "Cooking" wine should be tossed in the trash. It's nothing more than crappy wine with salt and stuff added. If the recipe calls for wine, get a real bottle of wine and use that.

Prayers sent for your mom for healing and speedy recovery.

I think there is one for sale at The Villages...

Need to mow but it's too cold.

Gonna pick up some oil for all the yard machines and change oils today . Tomorrow sposeda be warmer. High of 45 today. 59 tomorrow.

Got my jerky cannon thing today. Gonna experiment with that a bit.

We are back home after our vacation. We went to the following national parks, Kings Canyon, Sequioa, and Redwood. We toured quite a few wineries and usually ate good food at one of them for dinner. Our weather today will be sunny, 74 degrees, and 55% humidity. I am working on the spring flower garden beds today.

^ This. Healing for mama 8track.

Nope. I love the heat. Gimme 85 degrees any time. I don't mind dripping sweat sitting still. I do hate when my hands and feet are cold which is 9 months of the year.

Went out to go to menards to get oil to change oils in the yard tools. Stopped at the grocery store to see if they had any lean beef roasts to grind for new jerky experimentation. Got 11lbs top round for $40. That should keep me busy for a while. Already portioned it out to 2lb packages and vac sealed em for the freezer. Got 2lbs in a bowl in the freezer firming up for grinding. Made 3 different seasoning blends to make 3 different flavors of beef sticks.

I forgot about the oil changing. Maybe later.

Ok we have procured our cheat meal:

40 pork potstickers

20 cream cheese wantons

16 egg rolls

3 1/2 lbs fried chicken (about to make it)

Double batch of rice (2 cups dry)

bottle of orange sauce and bottle of General Tso sauce

*they were out of spring rolls but it doesn't matter, there is no freaking way were going to eat all of what we bought.

+3

8, I am sorry to hear about your mom, of course she will be in my prayers.

Prayers for Momma 8..

Won turdy sicks

Wait for tomorrow. Should be much better weather for mowing.

Wise words.

Nah, I lean more towards sci-fi fantasy stuff

^Stogie, I bet they give it the juice like Lance Armstrong to keep it that way.

Wedding was actually pretty nice. Reception was fun. Was at a Catholic church right around the corner from the Black Bean Deli in Orlando.

2 hour drive, 6 hours of wedding/reception, 2 more hours of driving. I was tired.

Morning Ram and gang

Dudes...