Enjoying Memorial Day
The scrabble blast game has quit working and I would like to find out why. This turns out to be my only major problem for now. I opened one of my window shades to reveal the blackness of night outside my window, but the neighbor's porch light is shining brightly across the street. I wonder if one of the family members had to go to work before daylight? Maybe one of the kids had to catch the bus before daylight. Those are all guesses when the only noise is the sound of the refrigerator running the motor located someplace I don't know about. The ribs yesterday were so out of this world luscious. I enjoyed about four of them. They were slightly charred with a sealed in barbecue flavor that tantalized my taste buds with every bite. I had buttered bread with season salt. It was sort of like my dad use to make, but mine wasn't basted. He would melt some real butter in a small pan along with season salt and spread it over the bread that was toasting on the grill. I buttered in the house the bread and sprinkle season salt on top. I really had to watch the bread because the butter would melt into the coals and fire would flame up to burn the bread. Fortunately, I saved the bread before it was totally blackened. I only cooked three pieces, but they were real good. Mom cooked two ears of corn, a sweet potato and two white potatoes on the small grill. The little grill produced a lot of smoke which I had to get out of the way ,so I would not be blasted by the heat of the grill. After the main meal, mom placed the rib bones into the freezer, so we could take them with us to my sister's house to feed her dogs. I am sure they will gobble them up in no time. Mom did some house cleaning after watching "Bonanza" later in the afternoon. I took a snooze of a nap. Towards evening, mom took me to 27Th. Avenue where there were people playing in the ocean and digging to China in the sand. I tried to take pictures of pelicans flying overhead and down the coastline. I did get this picture of the ship with three sails. Plus, I took several more shots of the ship. The wind was cool and the lifeguard got a piece of food from someone cooking with their grill on the beach. As we were leaving to come back home, this heavy set Hispanic guy was carrying on a conversation next to our car with his wife and kids. He had dread locks in his hair and a ring in his nose. He looked like a prize bull that escaped from a pasture. The wife and kids did not say anything, but I would have been slightly embarrassed to call him daddy. I could not see taking him to a school conference. I wonder if the teacher could keep a straight face? I am sure it would be tough. We got home and on went the television and the computer. The day was finished.
posted by seaside @ 1:54 AM
1 Comments:
At 6:15 AM,
Lew said…
I think that some people leave their porch light on as a sort of security light. I use to do this with the house in Miami. What really makes neat security lighting is Christmas lights strung around the eaves of the roof. They really do a good job on lighting up the area around the house. Even the icicle lights with their little tiny bulbs work real good because there are a lot of them. But I am not sure how much electricity they use and besides that the neighbors would probably think that it would be crazy to have icicle lights or Christmas lights up beyond New Years which is the traditional time to take the Christmas decorations down. I am glad that you enjoyed your barbeque ribs but your colorful luscious descriptions are making me hungry. But the bread with the seasoned salt. Was the seasoned salt Lawry's seasoned salt? My dad liked to use Lawrys seasoned salt on his food and the Lawrys salt was always on our dinner table when I was young. We have a small gas barbeque grill now but when I lived in Miami I use to use a cast iron Hibachi for barbequeing with. You couldn't get much food on it because of its size but it was goos for a couple of hamburgers or a few hot dogs. I liked it because it didn't use much in the way of charcoal plus the bottom didn't rust out each year like those really cheap barbeques that I use to get. They would only last one season and the bottom would be gone. They always looked so nice when they were brand new but by the end of summer, what a mess. I always considered them as disposable barbeque grills. Then came the hibachi and that was the end of the disposable grills. And if it is threatening to rain and you want some barbeque, just go to the barbeque restaurant down by the beach in one of your beach pictures. The outside of the restaurant for some reason reminds me of the Double Deuce bar in the movie Roadhouse starring Patrick Swayze and Sam Elliott. We still haven't gotten to the Sonny's barbeque in either Apopka or Clermont yet. It is just a long way to drive. We have tried Bubbalou's baudacious barbeque a number of times because it was located near the two dollar movie theater on Lee road. Bubbalou's has a coloful name and is quaint and rustic bit I find their sauce a little bit too vinegary for my taste. We got some already prepared pulled pork in barbeque sauce from the meat department at Publix a few days ago and it was quite good with a sweet sauce. Mary had a steak but I think that my barbeque pulled pork sandwich on a Texas size hamburger bun tasted better. Am I barbeque addict or am I a barbeque addict? I just never seem to tire of it. May mealtime today be just as tasty as yesterday. Lew
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