Good Morning.
It’s 72 with a dew point of 59, so it’s a lot more comfortable than yesterday. No rain yesterday and none forecast for today. High in the low 80’s.
Yesterdays activities started with moving boxes for my wife, helping to get alpaca yarn ready for dying, which was her planned activity for the day. Set the AC in the shop a bit lower for the band rehearsal, (the music room is on the second floor of the shop). That went pretty well, we figured out a set list for next Saturdays show and ran through it without any train wrecks.
Ate a late lunch of leftovers from the fridge, and then got 30 lbs of pork shoulders trimmed, make some rub and get them ready to load into the smoker.
While they were sitting cleaned out the firebox and reloaded it so I’d be all ready to go for a planned 7pm start.
Just checked on the progress, it’s doing well, should be finished by early afternoon when the pork reaches 200 degrees.
For a wood fired smoker, the temperature regulation is incredibly precise. It is sealed up pretty tight and has a small draft fan which is operated by a temperature control. It maintains a very constant temp without any oscillation, much better than a typical electric oven which “sawtooths” over and under the set point.
Youngest son is coming today to help with fence work, we have a batch of posts to replace and gates to hang, not sure how far we will get, but any progress is good. At least we will have a good lunch.
I’m not going anywhere this coming week as far as I know, it would likely work out to spend some time with Drew’s trailer and mower.