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Well, the final results are in- I should have waited and cooked that steak yesterday. I cooked it on Friday because Zina was supposed to get off an hour early. She ended up having to work an hour over, so the steak was overcooked. I cooked it to 140 degrees and took it off the grill, but it stayed wrapped in the Reynolds wrap for an hour. It was still good though, I would definitely do another one.

So, I cooked that cowboy steak today. I haven't bladed it yet, but it looks great. I put it in the center of the grill with charcoal at each end. I let it cook over indirect heat until it got to 135 degrees, then I put it on the little round grill over red hot charcoal for 2 minutes on each side to sear it. Then I put it on a plate and covered it with aluminum foil.

Speaking of cooking, I always wanted to try one of those cowboy steaks but never have. But Zina picked us up one in Lynchburg the other day, has anybody ever cooked one?..any tips or advice?

Happy birthday!

Meal team 6-

If Trump wins in November I can already hear her yelling "impeesh fodie sebbum, impeesh fodie sebbum!"

There's so many questions that we'll probably never know the answers to here. I saw a post on Facebook- not just some person's post, but a link to some news outlet. And the secret service agent on another roof with the sniper rifle, (there were 2 agents on the roof, I'm sure most everybody has seen that picture on the news), said that he told his superiors that he had the shooter in his sights and had a clear shot. This was before the shooter had ever fired a shot. And they told him not to take it, to do nothing. Then after the shooter fired the agent took it upon himself to shoot him and killed him. He said he already lost his job because of it. Now whether ANY of this is true or not I have no idea, I only saw this that one time, and have not been able to find that post again, nor have I seen any other story anywhere confirming it. But if every bit of it is true it would not surprise me at all.

I felt kind of bad that I didn't really get to hang out with Bob at Macungie as much as I would have liked to, but on the other hand if I had and he had gotten as sick as I was I would have felt terrible.

I never drove a Brockway truck but I hauled a lot of lumber from Drake's Branch, Va. to Cortland. It was a 9hr. trip in that 9400 International I was driving. I always liked that run, especially after you passed the 81/78 split and kept on up 81 north, it was pretty up through there and not much traffic. I'd get off of 81 at some exit, turn left and go into town, then turn right somewhere to get to the lumber treating place. The best part was they'd unload you early in the morning. I'd get unloaded about 6am but there wouldn't be anybody in the office at headquarters until 8, so I'd go back south a couple of exits to a little diner that had plenty of parking and have breakfast. It was either the pizza omelette or pancakes, every time. The pancakes were as big as the plate they were on, and delicious! The pizza omelette had about everything you'd get on a pizza- sausage, pepperoni, peppers, onions, mushrooms, etc- and it was delicious. That was many years ago. The last time I was up that way the diner wasn't even there anymore.

THIS is a leader.