Christmas Day entry sort of ended abruptly. 

Oh, it's Thursday - early afternoon

I was cooking a brisket all day long yesterday and then I switched gears to cooking a rather old ribeye roast. Like, 3 years old lol. I had it labeled from 2021 and I had no idea we had meat in there that had been sitting in there that long. The brisket was from earlier this year.  I don't think they recommend keeping food frozen that long, eat it within a year or so?  So I kind of was out on a limb on that one, was it going to taste okay or taste like puke?  

I seasoned that ribeye roast quite well. I pulled it out at 122 degrees internal temperature and frankly? It was delicious.  No freezer burn - tho I had quadruple wrapped it when I put it in there. The Brisket was very fine as well.  I cooked that pretty much perfectly. I kept the fire temp around 250 all day long. Note that this is not a pellet smoker, this is  a wood fired smoker and a small enclosure so it takes time to figure out how to set the exhaust flap and the air intake flap to get you to where you want to be with keeping the fire down enough to not torch the meat.

Having not had smoked anything in quite  a while, I was pretty proud of myself.  

Today was a relatively easy day.  It's usually like that when certain people are working at the washout and the plant, I was blessed at both places. The manager said the stuff wasn't coming off of the walls, oh well. I said oh well too, hope they don't reject it. No, the dude that was loading didn't care.  I was out of there in 49 minutes total.  It wasn't a surprise when I pulled into my yard at noon.  I mean, literally at noon.  That's about as good as it gets. I've beaten that time by maybe 15 minutes a few times before. 

The only glitch today is that I lost the fuel card.  I couldn't fuel, tho that's not really an issue for I have over half tanks whenever I leave the loading plant.  Yes, I can go 2 full rounds on full tanks, but that's all I can do. Last time I tried that, I left the loading plant and ran out of fuel 2 blocks from the truckstop.  

I searched high and low in my vehicles for 20 minutes (at least). I went back to the truck and there it was, laying on the floor, right there in plain view.  Face slap.  No worries, I can get fuel tomorrow, it just wasn't so great. Now I have to waste time tomorrow fueling.  I don't ever fuel on the Gurdon portion of the trip. Well, almost never lol.

And now? It's raining.  I have zero plans for today.  The only thing I would do is install the water heater parts - but they aren't here yet. I knew they wouldn't be, the order was placed Christmas Eve Day, late. They probably aren't open Christmas Day - I don't blame them - and who knows about today? I was informed they would be emailing me when the parts are shipped. Well, nothing yet. I paid for 1 day shipping, that's all I can say.

To my friend that sent the airplane pic that was a great story.  I am considering a trailer but it'd have to be at a good price and at the same time not need a lot of work.  I don't want a project trailer, I already have one of those and just don't have the time for it.  Park it, set it up, use it.  Those are usually much more expensive, at least if in decent condition.  I have not been able to find anyone to renovate that coach.  I suppose I could get in there and start tearing stuff out - that's what needs to happen first. The entire kitchen center and the shower stall, it's old, junk and needs replaced. Preferably with regular household style stuff. Much cheaper and looks nice.

Yes, I have been looking at pics of how other people have fixed up old stuff and if you do it right, it is charming and looks incredibly inviting.