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Ribs-

Thank you. I think we're leaving Sunday. But at my age we take 17, 301, 601, 1, 220, etc. so it might take 2 days to get back. 95 scares me.

Nice bike.

Nice El Camino.

Yes indeed, they were absolutely skin tight. I wish I could have gotten a picture of the smoking hot chick that I saw walking carrying a cup of beer in each hand. She had on cut off blue jean short shorts and a white tank top...but I can't just take pictures of things like that like I used to. I got in trouble for making a comment about Vicki's breastesess 🤣

Oh, and I have many more pictures from the car show on the camera. I'll post a link when I get home. I took about 350.

I bought this one in 2019. And it was an honest young turkey, it never lied to me. We're not even cooking a turkey this year. I smoked one last year, but I've got ribs in the smoker now. We're at Vicki from Florida's house.

They had some really good looking food too. A turkey leg at one food stand was $15, a little too expensive for me. I once bought a whole turkey for $4, so I went with an $8 cheeseburger.

Santa and some elves. Wow...

I guess y'all know where I'm at.

Yeah, but it's a clip-on

Time to put it back in the shed. Can't wait to make a stew and try it out! I have to drag it on the wagon, it's too heavy to carry very far.

This is my platform that I made to put the stew pot lid on when I add ingredients, and the lid lifter that I made a few years ago out of a long bolt. Works great.

Looks "not too bad". By the time I use it a few times it'll be looking good. I'm gonna invite everybody over for stew, so y'all come on.

Welp, we're getting there. Looks better already. The pot that is, can't say the same for the piece of fat meat. I think I'll make a bigger stand so it will fit in it a little bit deeper though.

Check out that Lodge Cast Iron website too, there was some pretty good information on it.

Yes, I put the wire brush wheel in my drill and worked on some of those skillets with it, used fine sand paper on some too.

Here's something Zina got to clean cast iron. I used it to scrub those skillets, it came from Lodge too. I think she found it at the Walmart store. It works good too, pretty stiff bristles.

I hope Mack (the digger dog- the other 2 don't dig holes) doesn't see that trackerhoe on marketplace, he'll want it so he can dig bigger better holes.

I suppose you could rent a big truck just like you can rent a car, remember the old "Ryder rents trucks!" commercials? Vicki from Florida rented a car in Richmond when they flew in last week and turned it in in Roanoke when they left, a one way rental. Just a thought.

Sounds like a good idea anyway, but I know nothing about a blasting cabinet. I'd certainly go with the test piece first. My sister in law gave me some cast iron skillets that were her father's to clean and reseason for her a while back. I cleaned them with a brillo pad first, then used Dawn and a sponge, and seasoned them on the grill. Then I scraped them with a metal spatula, Dawn and sponge again, seasoned them again. I repeated that process about 4 times, until I considered them good enough to cook with. These were not terribly rusted though, just dirty with built up crud from years of use. I looked at the Lodge Cast Iron website and they said even though some people say to never wash cast iron it's fine. They said just never let them soak and when you wash it to dry it immediately, preferably by putting it on the stove burner until it's completely dry, then put a light coat of oil on it.

That's the reason I use the Crisco, no salt. I bought a big chunk of cured hog jowl to rub it with before I do the Crisco. I'm sure it's loaded with salt, but salt works good to clean cast iron too. I just don't want to use salted fat to season it and then let it sit for months before I use it again. This is what I'm going to wipe it out with first, easy to grip and hold too.

Wow, the UPS man just left- delivered the new bigger stew pot. I don't know if it's better, if it's just as good I'll be well satisfied. Can't wait to give it a trial run. It's supposed to be "pre seasoned, ready to use" but I'm not falling for that. I'm going to heat it up, scrub it out with this piece of hog jowl I bought just for this project yesterday, then reseason it with Crisco before I use it. I've had the old one probably about 30 years, maybe a little more, and it still looks better than new. Ever since I've had it I've cleaned it and reoiled it with Crisco every time I used it. I was looking on marketplace for a used one before I bought this new one, and every one I looked at looked like they had just pulled it up off the bottom of the ocean, completely rusted, and they all wanted almost as much for them as this new one cost! It would have taken a LOT of work to get any of them back to usable condition. Usable to cook in anyway, you could put it in the yard and plant flowers in it, which I see people do quite a bit. Using these pots take a bit of work, but I think it's worth it.

Hmmm, the stew pot picture made me realize it just might belong here- If your stew pot stand is sitting on an old dish antenna, and your fire wood is propped up on a piece of a step off of a truck, and your "burn barrel" is 3 truck wheels stacked up, and a dog is digging a hole in your back yard...

I'm not too far away, just a few inches on the map.