Howdy Roy !
Hope you are going to send us some good weather soon ??

 

Good morning Tim.......
Another HOT day here..... 100°F and very low humidity is the the forecast.....

I will be moving to the North side of the house...... some shade

 

Thanks for the update Roy. Stay cool !

 

I have shopping to do with Theresa in the afternoon when it is tooooooo hot to work on the house.
A/C is a life saver........

 

Supposed to hit 100° here today also with single digit humidity. We laid down 12 semi's of sod yesterday for the school. Now if we can keep it wet, it might start to look like a real school. If I could just get done with Fire Marshall and Health Inspector.

 

That looks like work !!
I have to take a call, I'll be right back Jon
LOL

 

Good afternoon from very smoky Chelan.

Jon, Thanks for the update on the school. The sod looks good!

We have had 100 plus temps here this last week also. They are predicting mid 90s this coming week.

 

I've never seen rolls of sod that big, wow …….. Tim are you out of the washroom yet

 

Rolling out the sod was the easy part. They had a machine that picks up two of those rolls at a time and unrolls them faster than a man can jog. They spent a week getting the ground prep'd before the sod. Dragging long I-beams and chin link stuff to smooth and level. Run sprinklers to wet the Moon Dust and then redrag to level again.

They are running a circuit of the sprinklers almost constantly. By time the spinkler systems has completed the entire grounds. it time to start over. The well pump is not getting any rest.

My plumber wanted another Mini Excavator and I rarely use mine any more. So when he offered $20,000 for a 12 year old machine that I paid $34,000 for new. I let him take it with my flat bed equipment trailer. Now I need to buy a new trailer. But 'm not sure I'll get another between the wheel fenders tilt bed. I might get a Deck over the wheels trailer this time. Since I rarely move equipment any more, and see the possibility of hauling hay more than moving my skid steer with the new trailer. Deck over is taller and you have to pull out ramps when you want to load something, vs just tilting the bed and driving on. But it lets me haul more hay per load.

 

Ribs on the smoker. Low and sloooooow. Potatoes on the grill now with Jalapeno poppers (homemade), sausages and then mushroom shishkebab scheduled to be added soon.

 

Jon, do you pick up a load or two right in the field to save some $ ??

 

Nice, Sounds good!

 

Too bad the "JIM" restaurant is so far away.......

John........ What a project.

 

Too low and slow. Dinner had to be delayed because the ribs weren't ready. "Good things come to those who wait" only works for about 30 minutes.

 

I'll be smoking ribs later today; using the 3-2-1 method they'll be on the Traeger smoker for 6 hours. Some prep time (wrapping/ unwrapping during the middle cycle) adds a bit more overall time to them.

3-2-1 Method: prep/rub ribs as normal. Smoke 3 hrs at 225*. Remove and double foil them/ adding apple juice inside foil - return to smoker (2 hrs at 250*). Remove foil and return to smoker, add your favorite sauces then continue smoking for 1 hr at 180*. During the unwrapped cycles I spritz them hourly with apple-juice - to keep them moist. Using this method always results in them falling off the bones, literally.

If not too rushed I'll take photos and re-edit this post later on.
1030 start
1730 finished