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Nice to be out camping again I bet. Have fun!!

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NICE 👍

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You should by still counting the days and celebrating small milestones @Robbie At least you realized that you smelled awful after having a smoke. I never did until I stopped smoking then smelled others who had just finished one - lol

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Good to see positive progression isn't it 🤩

I never smoke on the day in particular - NOPE!

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It's a double header on the BBQ tonight 👍 We have T-Bone Steak, done med-rare and ( @Abby will love this one) Garlic Grilled Jumbo Shrimp 🍤 First job is to prepare the shrimp and let them soak for hours in a pool of buttery garlic. This is where the magic happens. It's no longer about just shrimp. The mission here is to infuse as much garlic laced butter into those plump, juicy shrimp. I start off with frozen, jumbo shrimp bought from Costco. They are 16-20 count per pound so they're a good size and, the bonus is their shells are split down the backs and they're deveined already. All that's left to do is thaw them and strip the shells off. Meanwhile, I melt a good amount of better and I fine chop about a half head of fresh garlic. Once the shrimp are shelled, in they go to the buttery garlic bath 😉 The T-Bone steak is easy. although this one is a little thin so it'll be challenging to get some kind of sear on it without over cooking it. We'll see. 1st thing is to ensure it's fully thawed (if it was frozen previously). Next, dry it using a paper towel so there's no excess moisture when you throw it on the grill. I keep the seasoning simple. A very light rub of olive oil as a binder for the spices which are just SPG (salt, pepper, garlic). Time to put that hunk of beef on a super hot grill for a bit of a sear! Baked spud has been on for awhile as it takes about an hour to cook through. Got a bit of a sear on ............................. After searing the other side. heat goes to low to cook the steak through to med-rare. I don't use an internal temp measure for steaks. I use the finger/thumb method to tell the doneness. Med. Rare is putting your thumb and your middle finger together then feeling the fleshy part of your hand, just below your thumb, using your index finger of the other hand. That's the feel you want when you push a finger against the cooking steak. Steak is now done to med-rare Now don't worry folks, I didn't forget about those juicy, jumbo shrimp. They've been soaking for about 6 hours now in that garlic-butter mixture I made earlier. By the way, I added some Kosher salt, coarse ground black pepper and a sprinkle of paprika to the garlic butter back when I was first making it. Now, these little heavenly morsels will take about 3 minutes to cook on the ribbed, cast iron plate that goes right on top of the BBQ grates. You don't want to lose one of these heavenly morsels by dropping it between the BBQ grate openings 😞 You can tell they're done when they curl up! Just look at that garlicy butter sizzling on the channels between the ribs on the cast iron grate 🤩 Let's get those juicy little morsels back into the garlic butter dish and see if they can't soak up a little more flavor? The only rule in grilling shrimp is 'Do NOT Over Cook Them!!' Now while I've been preparing and cooking the shrimp, the steak has been resting for 15 mins. in foil. I drizzled some of that super yummy garlic butter over the steak before closing the foil 😉 You can never have too much garlic and besides, who cares? We're still wearing masks in public so not like you're gonna be breathing on anyone for the next few days 😄 Trust me, these shrimp are tender and juicy and there's an explosion of garlic with every bite 😍 I was so hungry after all this grilling I almost forgot to take a pick of the outcome but halfway through my meal I managed to remember to take a pic of the plated result. There were some saulteed mushrooms done to go with the steak as well. Cost of ingredients used roughly $21.00 for feeding 2 people. Cost for this meal at a steakhouse for two 😱

Nope!

Yeah! This is weird what's going on lately. Lost one our cats tonight as well. Strange stuff happening

Thought there was a weird wind thing happening high up in the sky this evening. The day was clear then suddenly a cloud appeared from the north (over the lake we live by) and heading south. As I watched it I noticed three very odd columnar clouds hanging down from the main cloud mass. They kind of looked like mini funnel clouds of a tornado -very strange! Have a look at the pic I took and look toward the tree line from the top of the cloud where the sun is. You'll see spinning cloud formations, three or four of them with another trying to form on the left and yet there's a cloud to the right that appears to be unaffected by whatever is going on, as is the top of the cloud formation. (sorry the sun kind of interferes with the top of the cloud formation). Double left click on the pic to enlarge it. Easier to see the circular rotation of those cloud columns. Perhaps the strangest part was that within probably 30 seconds of taking this pic, the whole cloud mass dissipated into just a small, thin, wispy cirrus cloud. Weird, very weird. Never seen anything like that and I'm a bit of a cloud nerd (in case you couldn't tell).

You may know them as Prawns? Basically the same thing and interchangeable in recipes. There's just some slight anatomical differences between shrimps & prawns. And yes. From what I understand, the cost of smokes down under is crazy 🤪

You are no different than any of us Anita! We are all addicts but we have learned that we can bury that addiction and all those long held habits of smoking to hide from life. Now is the time to make a change. Take back YOUR life! We can help. This site can help you with all the information we have here. Stick around and heal yourself. It IS possible! There's only one rule ..... NOPE (Not One Puff Ever). Once you stop smoking, never take another puff. It's simple but not easy; if that makes sense?

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I feel like if I have to go out in public, I need to be packing one of these to ward off the virus people 😱 Yeah, OK. That looks like at least 2 meters 😆

The wife's 'fine china' lol. The pattern is 'Trillium'. That's the Provincial Flower of Ontario; the Province in which we live. Would be the like you having plates with a pattern of the Cherokee Rose on them