2020
Made a short trip to Montgomery, MN tonight to get some delicious beer from Montgomery Brewing and great pizza to-go from Pizzeria 201. Eating on a blanket by the railroad tracks was an adventure though.
The fireworks on Cannon Lake were even more amazing than usual this year. Our neighbor launched more big fireworks than many cities do! 🤩💥🧨
Hanging out in the pool watching fireworks overhead is pretty amazing. 😊💥
Happy 4th of July everyone — in fruit pizza! 🇺🇸💥
Pork butts done with their journey and time to shred. Thank you Big Green Egg and Sous Vides for the journey! 🇺🇸🔥🐖
30 seconds of Big Green Egg Zen Smoke for your viewing and relaxing pleasure. 🔥
Pork Butts out of the Sous Vides baths and now onto the Big Green Egg for 3 hours of smoke! 🔥
We tried Grandpa’s Ice Cream in Fridley for the first time today. Great flavors. The people were super nice and everyone had masks and were well distanced. The ice cream was a great break from the heat! 🍦
4th of July barbecue prep started today. Rubbed two nice pork butts and ready for Sous Vides baths over next 48 hours.
Started reading The Bullet Journal Method. Recommended by Dan Grigsby to give it a full read versus just scanning the syntax. More depth here than I suspected. 📚
Our whole family was excited to hear that Arcade1Up is coming out with Ms. PAC-MAN! We will be swapping our PAC-MAN machine out as soon as we can. The cabinet looks great! 🕹
I was in Google Street View today and was surprised to see that it had a picture of our house before it was completely rebuilt. It is fun to see what was here before.
Lucky had her 6-month birthday today! She is 42 lbs now, and is still very much a puppy, but calming down some. She’s a great dog and learning more every day!
I’m getting even more excited about our upcoming RV road trip to Yellowstone National Park! It is going to be a great adventure! We are making stops at:
I’m not very handy, so I get disproportionately excited when I do complete little home projects. New drier vent with guard installed! Last winter the squirrels put over 20 pine cones in the vent!
The southwest dogleg of Cannon Lake is already extremely weedy with a lot of floating algae. The boat lanes look like roads. With July and August still ahead of us, this could be a pretty bad year for algae.
Email from our daughters high school:
“Due to budget cuts, the number of counselors serving Washburn students has shrunk from 5 to 3. Though our enrollment will once again be approximately 1650 students…”
We are in an incredibly anxious time. Many families are destabilized due to the pandemic and record unemployment. Add to that the tough work that we need to do on racism. Reducing counselors by 40% in the midst of that feels short-sighted.
Budgets are what they are, but hopefully these kids are going to find some support in their communities and families too, as many will need it.
We had a great backyard guitar performance tonight. 🎸
New 30-minute PR this morning! 378 kJ (+2 from previous). 39% of the time anaerobic! 🚴🏼♂️ #FitByFifty
This is bad. There are states safely reopening. Others should be following their lead. 😷
