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Another morning picture

This is another quick handheld picture with my Canon 60D.

If I look closely there is always something to take a picture of.

Tags dew, flowers, garden

So much reading

Recently I decided I wanted to read more. Read both fun books and learning books.

I’m a start and stop type reader, I will read a dozen books and then put my reader down for a year. So my goal starting now is to read consistently, even if it’s only 15min.

Forming Habits

One of the best books I read in 2019 was Atomic Habits by James Clear. In fact I read it twice. a critical theme in the book about habit formation is to keep it small at the beginning.

As small as possible.

So for that I started a couple months ago by forcing myself not to read longer than 15min or a single chapter. That was my goal, that every day.

When I noticed that my reader was with me as much as my phone I changed the goal to be at least 15min or a chapter a day.

Making progress

Since then I’ve read a bunch of books and I’m going to start posting about them. Something like reviews is post to Good Reads, but not owned by amazon.

I’ve been reading a lot of the St Mary’s Chronicles, in fact I’m almost caught up. I’m as hooked as I was with the Dresden or Laundry Files series. It’s an excellent series, while a bit too real at times when I’m looking for a fun relaxing read.

Jodie Taylor is an excellent author and the characters she’s developed are very real.

So, if your interested all these book related posts will be here, and they will be tagged with the year and series to make things somewhat sortable.

Tags Dresden, habits, Jodi Taylor, Laundry Files, learning, reading, The Chronicles of St. Mary's

General Thoughts Not Instagram

Summer is coming in fast

The trees are full and the rhododendrons are in bloom, summer is here.

Tags flowers, rhododendrons, yard

food Not Instagram

Pandemic wine is bottled

It’s nothing special, but it’s nice for a home brew. It was actually ready to bottle a couple weeks ago, but we were a little busy to get to it.

Hopefully those extra days clearing will reduce the aging a bit so we can start drinking it on the patio.

Tags pandemic, wine

bbq

Spring is here along with BBQ

Post author By Jeff
Post date 2020-04-06
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A couple weeks ago we had a pork shoulder, and rather than roasting it in the @KamadoJeff like we would normally, we did it in the oven.

It was delicious, and there was the added benefit of the pork fat drippings that we saved for cooking.

However, this weekend I grilled steaks and they were amazing.

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Today’s bbq was a simple grill. These were cut from a rib roast we had in the freezer from Christmas and aged in the fridge (unwrapped) for the week. Salted and grilled. The fries were hand cut and double cooked. They were finished with chicken fat we saved from dinner earlier this week. If you ever have chicken or duck fat, save it for potatoes! It’s perfect. #kamadojoe #steak #charcoal #duckfatpotatoes #chickenfatpotatoes

A post shared by Kamado Jeff (@kamadojeff) on Apr 5, 2020 at 4:55pm PDT

I know, grilling is not “BBQ”, but it is close enough to kick off the BBQ season. It’s at least in the same family.

I will post my BBQ progress on @kamadojeff and will come up with a cool hashtag to share. For now you can check out another Jeff’s hashtag or just follow my @kamadojeff account