Good Morning, FS Warriors! Maybe it was the wine last night, or maybe just the culmination of activities, or maybe both. I woke up this morning, glanced at the clock, saw that it was 5:00 AM, rolled over and went back to sleep. Got up at 7:00, donned my running attire, and headed out the door, clutching a small bottle of Gatorade. The weather was cool(er). Ran at a fairly easy pace for the first mile and picked it up a bit for the next two. That was it: 3.07 miles. I was happy; I've skipped my run for the last two days; felt like I'd had enough of a workout with life. Yesterday's pork loin roast came out perfect. I smoked it with apple chunks over charcoal at about 225 degrees for almost 4 hours and it tasted amazing. Could have been that rub/marinade I made up the night before. I took some olive oil, garlic powder, onion powder and some kind of all-purpose seasoning that had lemon pepper, orange peel . . . and I never read the rest of the ingredients. I just combined it all, rubbed it all over the roast and put it in one of those gallon ziplock baggies and let it sit in the fridge overnight. I had DW slice the layer of fat off the one side of the roast the next morning, and I figured she would just throw it away. Nope. She fried it up, and let me tell you (probably because of the rub) it was about the best tasting bacon I have ever eaten - Bonus! No salt added either. Anyway, we had friends over so I could show off. Smoked pork loin, twice-baked potatoes, brussel sprouts, and a salad made with cucumbers, onion, peppers and vinegar. The guests brought a sugar-free white chocolate pudding, to which they added fresh blueberries and raspberries, and it was delicious! No fights at the nursing home. Would have had a standing ovation, but most of them were in wheelchairs. :) We all had a good time. We all went around and gave them all hugs or handshakes and told them we loved them and cared about them. One lady wouldn't let go of my hand; I thought I was going to have to drag her over to the mike and play my guitar one-handed. She was a sweetheart. And like I prophesied yesterday: I came back and inbibed in some cabernet savignon - 3 of them - glasses, that is. Oh yeah! You'd have thought I would have been done for the night. You would have been - what's the word? Wrong, yea that's the word. Got out the Life of Pi DVD and watched it for the next 2 hours. It was a pretty interesting movie, but I think I only understood about 1/2 the dialogue in the movie. It was entertaining though. Went to bed at midnight, and as they say, "The rest is history." Here's hoping all my FS Buddies have a wonderful day! Toodles!
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