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Saturday Afternoon Open Thread: Grilling

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Looks like we could use an open thread while we wait for photos roll in from the marches.

I bought a new smoker/grill and Bixby is very suspicious of it – he doesn’t generally like it when I introduce things bigger than him to the yard. He’s gone out and barked at it a couple of times. Having people over tonight to break it in. So busy prepping items at the moment.

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  2. 2.

    raven

    My bride went to a family reunion in Virginia but I’m staying close to Lil Bit and keeping her cool and calm. She’s doing great and, from what I can discern, there is little I can to to prevent aspiration pneumonia that I’m not already dong so it’s just do what we can and hope.

  6. 6.

    piratedan

    helping my son move out and then baseball game attendance, if my knees would allow it, I’d be at a march today…

  10. 10.

    Omnes Omnibus

    What’s everyone up to?

    Gearing up for today’s march. Being annoyed about the blog being borked.

  11. 11.

    hedgehog mobile

    Missed the Denver march (stupid sciatica). Going to run errands once the meds and stretching kick in. We are headed to Buena Vista tomorrow for a week (SCA event).

  15. 15.

    Dorothy Winsor

    At our local march, there were no counter protesters. It could be it was just too hot. Or maybe it’s hard to make a good sign advocating putting babies in cages.

  16. 16.

    MobileForkbeard

    Nice! We were going to grill today, but it’s super hot out AND Mrs. Forkbeard and I are both sick.

    So we ordered thai takeout. Yellow curry chicken will keep the kiddos busy.

  17. 17.

    oatler.

    Too bad we can’t recreate the paper-lantern groove of 1960s cookouts. It would require temperate climates and Spanky & Our Gang’s “Like to Get to Know You”. Plus I would need to be 50 years younger than I am.

  23. 23.

    Humdog

    Man, the climate here kils BBQs so quickly. We get two years, maybe three from $500 grills before the humidity and salt air disintegrates any tiny parts like the auto starter. Your new one looks sturdy.
    Bixby will like it once it smells of meats.

  24. 24.

    kindness

    Once Bixby smells the food you bring out of that smoker he’ll know exactly what it is. Bet he doesn’t bark at it any more after tonight’s smoke.

  26. 26.

    efgoldman

    Yesterday was my birthday. Not happy. Spent it whining and complaining and hating on everyone/everything. Too fucking many visiting people (nurses, PT, health aide) in my house. Do not want.
    Health aide came to help me shower/clean up. OK, I feel better, but her kindergarten teacher cheerfulness got her this close to being strangled or cut. I know that’s how they’re trained to deal with grumpy old people, but still….

    OK enough whining for one day,

    FIX THE FUCKING NYMS!!!!!!!

  29. 29.

    efgoldman

    @Humdog:

    salt air disintegrates any tiny parts like the auto starter.

    We always assume the starter will fry very quickly. We use a butane match, works fine

  31. 31.

    CliosFanBoy

    DC is unbearably hot today. hope the marchers are ok. My wife had a girl’s day out so I stayed home with our 3 pups/

  33. 33.

    Humdog

    @efgoldman: Somehow this comment makes me feel sorry for Mrs. efg.
    Grumpy Birthday to you, grumpy Birthday to you, you act like an asshole, (but thanks to your home aid, you don’t really) and you smell like one too!
    Happy birthday, hope today is less intrusive.

  34. 34.

    Joey Maloney

    Just finished a video call with family members on 3 continents to plan a massive group vacation to Spain, Morocco, and Israel. This is going to be an enormous clusterfuck, but a fun one.

  35. 35.

    M4

    @efgoldman: when I had a bad birthday this year I declared that the following Saturday was my real birthday. Recommend same.

    Happy real birthday!

  36. 36.

    NotMax

    There’s a change in the wind, and a split in the road
    You can do what’s right or you can do what you are told
    And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold
    Yes, these are the days of decision

    Phil Ochs, Days of Decision.

  39. 39.

    Fair Economist

    @efgoldman: Belated happy grumpy birthday! A good grump can be very satisfying.

    My rabbit is grumpy with me about something. I let him out of his exercise pen and he peed on the sleeping bag I sit on to pet him and then ran into his cage, flicking his feet at me (a rabbit insult). So you aren’t alone.

  43. 43.

    raven

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: That’s an option but right now I’m feeding her by hand. I started with canned but now I’m soaking the kibble and feeding her that way. Bohdi no likey.

  48. 48.

    MoxieM

    Too freakin hot here. So I cranked on the AC, and restaged the LVR furniture. (No, it makes no sense.) Murphy (the magical wonder dog) had to come in and make sure I hadn’t made any serious changes. She sniffed it all, and decided that it was (as I told her) the same, but different. And like the sensible dog she is, went back down into the cellar to nap.

    I’m with all the marchers in spirit, but can’t walk very far, and I don’t do well in blazing heat. Such a wuss.

  52. 52.

    marcopolo

    Hello folks-

    Today is the last day for second quarter fundraising for campaigns. Pundits and prognosticators will be looking at everyone’s haul for the past three months, dropping hot takes, and making all kinds of ridiculous statements–for the most part.

    I just went through my donations for the year-to-date and discovered I have now given about $400 to 14 different candidates/organizations. I’ll be making a couple more today in light of the deadline. If you would like to join me–and I hope you do–please send $25 to a candidate you are already supporting or pick one from the lovely Red to Blue list that the Democratic Party has already put together. There are 50+ candidates to choose from! Apparently, despite not trying, 5 of the folks I’ve already donated to are on the list so go me.

    The key to winning back a Democratic House is right here — with diverse candidates like those below. Red to Blue is a highly competitive and battle-tested program at the DCCC that arms top-tier candidates with organizational and fundraising support to help them continue to run strong campaigns. Come November, these candidates and others will take the fight to Paul Ryan’s House Republicans — and fight to flip these seats from red to blue.

    And if trying to choose just one or two candidates from the list is too difficult and you want to just make a single donation that gets spread out amongst all of these fine folks you can do that here.

    Finally, I hope everyone who went to a march today had a blast.

  53. 53.

    Mike in NC

    Bought a new ~$300 Weber grill when we moved here. Neighbors liked it so much they bought one just like it. Propane starter died a couple of years ago, so it’s simple to get it going with a butane lighter.

    In the past we’ve gone to the community pool party on July 4, but wife says they’re expecting 240+ people this time so we’ll pass.

  55. 55.

    MobileForkbeard

    @M4: In my defense, I didn’t name her. And in deference to my parents who can’t pronounce the name of The Fuzziest Elder God, we usually just call her Tula.

    Samwise seems like he’s having a ball. In a thoroughly catlike and aloof manner.

  58. 58.

    tybee

    we, too, are grilling this afternoon.
    the infamous 3-2-1 ribs:
    rub the ribs with your favorite pork rub and let them sit about an hour.
    then grill them 3 hours, very low and slow, indirect heat, with some apple wood smoke the first hour or so.
    after the 3 hours, pull out a piece of aluminum foil large enough to go around the ribs in one direction.
    thinly slice a large onion, putting a layer of onions on the foil, then a rack of ribs (or half a rack), then a layer of onions, then the other ribs followed by a final layer of onions.
    wrap in the foil which generally entails another piece of foil at a 90 degrees angle from the other.
    be sure the foil covers the ribs/onions fairly tightly.
    back on the grill, low and slow again for about 2 hours.
    then, supposedly, one pulls the ribs out of the foil and places them on a higher heat grill and slathers with Q sauce for up to an hour.
    generally, once we get them out of the foil, the pilfering begins and soon there are no ribs…very moist and tender.

  61. 61.

    NotMax

    @Mister Forkbeard

    Bought a friend a Carl Cthulhu for Xmas once.

    He later told me that if he set it on the floor and turned it on so the eyes flashed red, the nine (!) cats in his domicile would form a semicircle around it and lie down facing it as if in worship

    Spooky.

  62. 62.

    Barbara

    @Dorothy Winsor: The counter protest here was a pro-life guy who drives a “message” truck around town all the time. He kept yelling through a loud speaker that separating babies from their mothers was always wrong and alternated between thanking us for showing up to support the pro-life movement and calling us hypocrites. The distinguishing factor of separation from one’s children being coerced by third parties seems not to have occurred to him.

    I probably should have waited to go. I wilted after 90 minutes. People kept arriving throughout.

  63. 63.

    Barbara

    @Mike in NC: Our neighborhood Fourth of July party has been canceled because not enough people volunteered. It only got started about five years ago so I don’t much care.

  64. 64.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Barbara: he may be anti-abortion, but I seriously doubt he’s pro-life. Don’t get suckered into using their dishonest terminology.

  65. 65.

    Elizabelle

    @M4: Samwise looks like “of course you’re taking my picture. I am handsome, dammit.”

  66. 66.

    Gelfling 545

    @efgoldman: Sending you restrained, dignified and totally non – cheerful ( in order to avoid strangulation, etc. ) birthday wishes.

  68. 68.

    Llelldorin

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah, this is the 50.6% Asian city in the South Bay that’s split between Swalwell’s and Khanna’s districts. The turnout was gratifying, but not surprising. I doubt Nunes would get the time of day out here.

  69. 69.

    efgoldman

    @stinger:

    Sounds like you need a visit from, or at least a video chat with, the granddaughter.

    Tomorrow

    FUCKING NYMS!!!!!

  70. 70.

    Ohio Mom

    @efgoldman: Since Ohio Son has autism, we have had social workers from various agencies visit us at home periodically over the years. Sometimes there’s a big project and they are here every week for a spell.

    I’ve liked most of them as people but I really don’t want them in my actual space (not to mention the ones I’ve merely tolerated). I prefer my home to be a refuge from the outside world, and I have an introverted streak that’s rubbed the wrong way when they cross the threshold. But I do have to say, we all get to stay fully dressed, and everyone works hard not be patronizing. You have my sympathy.

    Birthday wishes, and also wishes that you get better enough very soon so that your visitors leave you alone and go pester someone else instead.

  72. 72.

    Elizabelle

    @efgoldman: In the meantime, Happy the Fock Birthday.

    Again, glad I made the resolution, long ago, to never give you a shower.

  76. 76.

    Aleta

    @efgoldman: kindergarten teacher cheerfulness

    I hate that and it should be trained out of them if it’s something they adopt because a patient is older or has a disability. A professional should speak to everyone the same way.

  77. 77.

    Alain the site fixer

    @hedgehog mobile: I would kill to be around Buena Vista tomorrow. Spend some time at the hot springs, catch a few trout, shake my hand at the sky because of lack of rain. ENJOY!

  79. 79.

    shell

    OK, I feel better, but her kindergarten teacher cheerfulness got her this close to being strangled or cut

    Its the same with coots of any age. I dont know why their constant mantra is “Good job!” I want to tell them that s what you say “when youre housebreaking a puppy.”

  80. 80.

    Miss Bianca

    @hedgehog mobile: yay, BV! Is this the same event as last year’s?

    Right now i am up in the mountains at the hunt camp. Tried to mske it to one of the local marches, but timed things wrong. Have to console myself by texting congresscritters and going riding this evening once it cools off.

  84. 84.

    TCS

    You have the most beautiful dogs. Always glad to see photos of them. They appear to be at ease, comfortable. That is a tribute to you.

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