Posted on September 4th, 2008 by James
Ladies… you knew it was on its way. Your man has been talking about Brett Favre again. He has been trying to get all those chores done you have been bugging him about since Spring. He has been shining his **Insert favorite team name here** beer mug and brushing off the dust that has settled on his favorite “lucky” cap.
Football is here. Like it or not.
Personally… I like it. :) But I’m a dude.
If you are one of the lucky ones that gets to hit up the first game of the season and spend some time tailgating - then you can use these tips for your tailgating (that I am sure you will be doing). If you are like the rest of us and are forced to watch the opening week on TV, then you can use these tips when your entertaining your friends with an Opening Day BBQ SPECTACULAR! haha or something like that. 
So let us get into the BBQ goodness and we will break it into two sections…
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Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by James
Big football weekend this weekend. Lots of you guys & gals will be breaking out the grills to throw some meaty goodness on there and try to impress some friends. Let me tell you… I have eaten lots of stuff prepared on the grill, and the last thing you want to do is prepare something half-ass and ruin the opening week of the NFL season.
Right?
Right.
Esquire magazine put together a nice little article to help out with your backyard grilling: Everything You Need To Know About Steak
The cool thing about this article is the fact that they touch on a lot more than just how to grill a steak… or how to marinate a steak… they touch on why beef is aged, different types of beef and so on. So you get more out of it then just your fun of the mill how to (like how we do here). Just kidding, we tend to give you a lot more info than needed as well, but we don’t have a how to cook steak article “yet” - so enjoy this one until we do.
If you are planning a get together this weekend to kickoff the NFL football season, then this should help you out in the grilling department. Check it out if you have time.
Just so you know we are working on a “Perfect” Opening Day Tailgating BBQ post that should be out in the next couple of days. It will give you tips on what to cook, how to cook and how to have the best time while doing so. We will be teaming up with Corey @ Fantasy Football Goat and providing everyone with some last minute ideas for their Opening Day BBQ. Stay tuned!
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Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by Shala
Finally our two big tomatoes have decided to ripen. These guys turned red while we were away for the weekend and I can’t wait to have a taste!
The bottoms are beautiful as you can see.
The tops aren’t quiet as nice. These are the two that I showed previously while still on the vine. They did some major cracking during our week of pretty wet weather. They were just getting so juicy the skin couldn’t keep up. We will cut the tops off and eat the bottoms.
Posted on August 28th, 2008 by James
Yesterday we decided enough was enough. We have been so busy lately and tired from being busy that we have let our garden become a haven for insects… overgrowth… weeds and everything else that normally we would fight to control. Not to mention that we had a baaaaaaaaad case of mosquitoes and funny enough, we wrote an article on how to control them. Don’t laugh.
You know what was causing the influx of “mossies”… our gigantic mosquito growing tank, AKA - swimming pool.
Yup, we did exactly what your not supposed to, let it sit and breed those lil blood suckers until I’m sure we had furnished the neighborhood with their own personal pest problem. Geeez. We do feel bad, we feel like idiots… really we do. But sometimes life catches you with your pants down and then takes it upon itself to laugh and point.
We are pantsless.
Like I said in line 1… enough was enough. We took off to Ace Hardware to grab a few things we lacked. A new water hose, a second short water hose to drain the pool, some mosquito killer donut thingys, a new sprinkler (some big white lion of a dog ate the old one) and some organic spray for our plants. You know… the essentials.
Armed with our tools we began working on things.
Our beatiful 4 O’clocks had become a mess due to some invisible insects that were eating them UP! So we made the executive decision to take them out. They had a good run, some will come back before its freezes… you can bet that. Next year they will be a beautiful piece of asphault… so really does it matter? We are going to save some seeds to move to our next home and keep them going.
Next we spent time dividing & conquering - Shala was spraying mosquito killer on the yard, since some of those babies had grown into adults and were biting our asses on the regular. I spent my time pruning things up and pulling weeds in the garden. The garden still needs a lot of work, but is in way better shape than before. The yard got a nice coat of mosquito killer and hopefully we will be on the backside soon.
The pool, well we are draining that a little at a time. It is so hot in Texas, that we are debating filling it again. We probably could use it well into October I’m sure, but then again… we have lots of things planned and it could end up just the same. So that will have to be figured out on the fly. Until then, we are treating the millions of larvae in the pool - hopefully we can get them before they are flying around causing chaos.
We did pull a few things yesterday, just so you know we are actually getting something out of the garden besides work…
Posted on August 26th, 2008 by James
We often talk about the good insects and great it is to have lady bugs and praying mantises… but today, we talk about the Tomato Hornworm. You know the one. He is probably out there right now munching on something he shouldn’t be.
I guess it was about 2 months ago when we really started getting hit hard by them. I remember spending afternoons out there in the heat picking them off. Not cool.
Then I thought we had pretty much gotten a handle on things and this weekend we go out into the garden and see this fat fool sitting atop our tomato plant like he is the champion of all things wormy.
That is my fat finger you see there… trying to give you some kind of perspective on how big he is. He obviously had made a haul so far, considering his size. He was sleeping in the morning dew… loving life I’m sure. Dreaming of all the tomato leaves he would eat today and all the lil black turds he would be laying on the ones he didn’t eat.
He was quickly eradicated. I will not tell you the method. Although, I hear soapy water does the trick… if you like the evil feeling of squishing them… guess that would work too. I think Labs like to play with them for a while. Whatever your flavor.
Here is one more picture of the Tomato Hornworm in all his glory… while it lasted.
