@GeePawHill Seriously. I should not be debating turning the heat on in freakin North Carolina this close to June. My wife says she is loving this weather but I am freezing, all the winter stuff is put up for the year!

Didn't stand a chance

Yall. Seriously. These are incredible.

Sauced. Starting to look good!

Ok, 3-ish hours in I have begun the wrap phase. I only had an IPA to use for liquid in the foil so hopefully this will work out. The smoke is way thicker now too, but I'm probably going to start a new bed of chips when I unwrap for the final cooking phase to get some really solid smoke into the sauce

Starting to get a really well defined bark on the ribs, the edges are starting to show some of the bone. They've been going for a little over 2 hours now and we're at 147F internally. I think I may have timed this perfectly to be ready for dinner

@epu Yeah I was thinking of putting them on a rack, it will make it way easier to deal with the wrapping phase and saucing without them falling apart

And now we wait. I am doing these ribs a lot differently than I usually grill ribs, I am setting up the grill as a smoker, cooking at around 270F, and not wrapping and saucing them until the final third of the cooking time.

Hopefully this will work well.

The mesquite chips I'm using in the smoke box smell AMAZING by the way. This grill makes for a remarkably good smoker.

We had such an amazing dinner tonight that I don't even have good photos of it but I slow grilled chicken thighs while Amy made some stir fry snap peas. Incredible meal!

Excited to be helping the team on Mastodon!

"We’re also very happy to share that Scott Jenson has joined the organisation on a part-time basis, as Product Strategy Adviser."

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

While Amy and I are so heartbroken to lose such a sweetheart, I cannot tell you how happy I am to return a beloved family member to where she belongs. This young man was in tears when we talked on the phone, he was sure she was gone forever and could not believe we had her over a dozen miles from her home where she disappeared.

We have a standing invite to go play and visit Myrtle and have made a strong connection and friendship with Adam. That's gotta be worth something

In what can only be called a bittersweet moment, I found "Cleo's" (aka Myrtle) owner via a Reddit post about an earthquake in North Carolina of all ways. Her human saw my post about feeling an earthquake in Morganton and happened to click through my profile to see what I was into, and saw my post about finding a beautiful cat and giving her a home.

A few pictures via text later, and there was no question about it. We had his beloved Myrtle who disappeared in December. She had a 12mi adventure!

Whoever starts the fire will not likely survive. A lot of us are realizing that we’re already dead anyway though. Once you wrap your mind around that reality, many things are possible. Once many wrap their minds around that reality, paradigms change rapidly. Sometimes for the better. Sometimes for the worse.

Meet Cleo, everyone. The scared stray that I enticed up to our porch with food last week. She's been seen by a vet and now lives inside with us and will be forever loved.

#catsofmastodon #Caturday

Last photo of this modification, I promise. I got the ARB air coupler that fits the drilled hole today, next step is to send the cowl portion off to paint and I'll be done. I cannot be more happy with how this all turned out

I am so proud of this modification on our Jeep.

I installed an ARB dual air compressor with a custom underhood bracket, and then swapped in a Hybrid charging port, cut out part of it to mount a plate for the air chuck and the switch controls, and I just cannot get over how clean it looks.

I gotta take the cowl portion of the pod over to a body shop and get them to spray it to match my paint, but man it is so cool that all this works so well.

“This is not how democracy works. This is how autocracy metastasizes. Slowly. Then, all at once.”

https://www.theindex.media/harvard-didnt-blink-the-fight-starts-here/

We in the U.S are not on the brink of a constitutional crisis nor are we headed toward an authoritarian coup. Both are here now.

#USpol #DueProcess #HumanRights #coup