Good Morning!!!! 41F @ 8:00AM. Plentiful sunshine. High 53F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.
Looks like it's gonna be a nice day, nice enough to BBQ some ribs. I like the KC Masterpiece, and the Sweet Baby James, both hickory style. Been buying the SBJ lately, though, 'cause it comes in 64 oz. jugs that seem less expensive than the smaller bottles. The local big box grocery, WinCo, carries it.
I think I've had okra a time or two, and to me it didn't have much flavor. And after all the slime talk, I think I'll leave that one to you okra experts out there.:laughing:
Uneventful trip to town yesterday, even at the mechanic's. No transmission yet, seems he's finding more parts he didn't order yet. I told him I wanted to use it for a camping trip on Super Bowl weekend, but he didn't seem to sure it would be done even then.:shocked:
Went to Costco to get one of their rotisserie chickens. Went to the shelf where they keep them and it was empty. Picked up some cherry tomatoes to finish my shopping, and still no chickens on the shelf. They had a whole bank of 'em that looked done, but there wasn't anybody there to unhook 'em. Remembered I needed TurboTax, so I went up to the front of the store to the TurboTax shelf and got one. They just put out the empty sleeves, and you have to wait at the checkout stand for someone to run and get the rest of it. I guess that's to make sure you pay for it. Got back to the chicken shelf and still no chickens. So I wandered around and found a big box of organic raisins and put that in my cart. Got back to the chicken shelf and still no chickens. Just down the isle was a big display of boneless pork chops, so one of those packages jumped into my cart when I wasn't lookin'. Got back to the chicken shelf and still no chickens. Turned around and there was one of those nice little old ladies givin' out free samples, and somehow a twelve pack of smoked hot links found its way into my cart. Got back to the chicken shelf and still no chickens. By now there was a line of people and their carts in front of the chicken shelf. Circled back around through the cheese isle, and some French gouda looked good, as did a big box of crumbled Feta. Got back to the chicken shelf and still no chickens. The beer isle was just around the corner and I hadn't been over there yet, and they had a case of Guinness that needed to go home with me. Got back to the chicken shelf there was a guy messin' with the door on one of the chicken cookers. And he had a buddy that was fillin' up a table with those tubs the chicken comes in. By now there were even more people lined up for chickens, and some of 'em were lookin' kinda desperate. I pushed my cart up the isle aways and then turned it around so's I'd have some protection in case there was a riot. The first guy got some big rubber gloves on and started taking the spits out of the rotisserie machine, plopping chickens into the tubs as fast as he could. His buddy was followin' along behind slapping lids on 'em and sliding 'em onto the chicken shelf, and people was elbowing each other and bangin' carts to get up there and grab 'em faster'n he was puttin' 'em out. I took another couple steps back so I wouldn't get trampled. After a few minutes the line wore down and I was finally able to get close enough to snag my chicken and make my get away. While I was standin' in line to pay for my chicken I thought maybe Costco had come up with a new strategy to increase sales by makin' people wait for those chickens to cook. I went in there to get a five dollar chicken and ended up bringin' home a hundred and forty five bux worth of other stuff I didn't even know I needed.:shocked: Maybe I should buy a big slug of that Costco stock. I figure any company that can increase their sales thirty times in as many minutes by timing how they cook chickens is gonna be worth a fortune not too far off into the future. Who knows, maybe if I buy enough stock, I can afford to keep shopping at Costco!:laughing:
Hope everyone enjoys the heck out'a their weekend!