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Looking Out My Window ... More beauty from my surroundings.
- About surviving winter.
- About revamping some things.
- About what the upcoming holidays are going to be like.
- For a mama who loved Jesus and served Him until she left this earth. For those of you who don't know, my mother died last month and I've been in Alabama for her memorial service. I've been catching up on things and haven't had time to blog.
- For being able to go home for mom's funeral.
- For caring friends.
- For Command Picture Hanging Strips.
- For finally being able to have worship and communion with my church family in person.. Even with masks and social distancing, it's still better than sitting alone staring at a screen.
From the Workshop...
As I said in my last Daybook, I have way too many unfinished projects and craft supplies piled up in my apartment. So much so that I needed to put myself on restriction. No purchases of supplies are to be made to start new projects for a month, or until I run out of projects. Week one's completed projects are here. Weed two's are here.
From Auntie's Test Kitchen... While I was home for mama's funeral last month, I got to partake of a plate of good old Southern barbecue. As Labor Day approached, I thought about how I could make a reasonable facsimile of what I'd had back home. I couldn't simply buy it since Denver doesn't really have any good barbecue places (none that do ribs anyway. And no, Chili's does NOT count). At our apartment complex, we have communal grills that everybody and their grandma has used and NOT cleaned, so that was out. Plus, I've only cooked hot dogs and hamburgers on a grill, so I wasn't sure I could even cook these correctly on a clean grill. I don't yet own a grill pan, so, it was Crock Pot to the rescue. I bought a slab of ribs at the grocery store, slathered them with some barbecue rub I was given a while back, put a little water in the bottom of the pot, placed the ribs in the pot, and cooked them on high for about four hours.
Yes, Rhett and Link, I know that these aren't authentic....
These were fall-off-the-bone tender and the rub eliminated the need for the barbecue sauce I forgot to get at the store. No, they didn't have the smokey taste of the ribs I had back home, but they were a good substitute. So, when's the next barbecue holiday when I can do this again? New Year's day I suppose.
"But as it is, I will give them back everything they’ve lost. The last word is, I will have mercy on them.” - Jeremiah 33:24 MSG
Now For Something Totally Different ...
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