Tri-Trip to Smoked Tri Tip
On a farm-Barton Rouge-Fort Worth trip. I delivered a cooler of meat to my oldest son this week along with a great year old rescue beagle cross.
“Tri tip took about an hour on the smoker. Pulled it at 132. Wrapped it in foil with 2 tbsp of beef tallow. Let it rest in the oven for 2 hours. Perfectly tender.”
Day 2 drive from Louisiana was torrential rain and fog. And I was welcomed by my extended Mexican family to a perfect evening of grilled beef and pork pastor tacos, laughter, conversation, and new young cousins playing.
Dia tres I shared an adventure with one of my claimed daughters to get a heavy load of rose mica gravel for her landscape renovation. She drove a used tow-haul mode and sheets to keep the truck unscathed!
Heading home with an outstanding male AKC Norwegian Elkhound. I don’t have to explain, but he listens anyway.
Would you like a Coffee?
I decided to skip watching another Apple TV show about beautiful food, people, and places. Roasting coffee for my third time. Enjoyable, nerve-racking, and a nice break from watching other people’s lives.
Roasting coffee beans experience.
Suggested Resolutions
I don’t make resolutions. Every day I should do better, help someone, or give myself a break or reward.
However here are some possible resolutions you may want to adopt!
More naked days - figuratively. Be honest, unabashed, listen to what you feel. Save the energy of image. Prepare be surprised when you realize some truth in the enemy.
More naked days - literal. Saunas, Ben Franklin’s air bath, massages, definitely a day without layers. How will you have moments with sunlight, white linens, love, terraces, gardens, or courtyards?
More steam, sunbaths, and meditation, imagination, and reflection.
More kayaking to feel floating, free choice, water, and your breathing good air.
More great tasting glasses of water than triple whiskeys.
More hot showers with a crisp cold rinse.
More cold showers melting into a hot rinse.
More cold walks, MUD/WTR, supplements, and fires.
More walkathons, walks to a friend, and walks with a friend.
More fiber, day and night.
More play.
More relaxing muscle and mind into a stretch after exercise.
More releasing the weight of stress with the stress from lifting weights.
More aromatic and edible plants.
More adding value while you’re alive.
More funding solutions like AI to match donated socks for women, children, and the poor.
More French doors, studios, silk clothes, and lanais.
More museums, silence, and music.
More book club where you don’t pick the books.
More captioning to appreciate accents, native voices, and music. You’re probably descended from original people somewhere in the world.
More glass cabinets indoors and organizer walls in garages and closets.
More happy dogs and cats through dark rugs and rubber mats in their winter sun spots.