We had a wicked hail storm last week! On Friday just after I got home from Denver a nice storm rolled in over the Lewis-Palmer Divide. At first it was just a bit of rain but then the hail came! We got over an inch of hail on the deck. Thank-fully we got the tomatoes under cover but Lisa's flowers got shredded. The wood on the deck looks like it has been bead blasted. The hail was a little bigger than a pea (some were the size of quarters) but they were perfectly round balls of ice, they looked like diamonds! The storm was so heavy that our neighbor up the hill had a waterfall coming out of his storm drain that run under his front stairs. That river comes right down into my storm drain that runs along the side of my shed. Well it is supposed to, this time it ran into the yard and under the shed because there was so much ice in the water that there were ice dams in the storm drain. I had to take a shovel and go break them up while it was pouring rain and hail. After the hail stopped a steady rain storm followed it up and we were thankful fort he rain but could have done without the hail.
A few weeks back we had our good friends Dave, Jen, and Lilly up for dinner. We had a prime rib that I had put in the smoker and made a special rub for. We had a great time and Lisa took this great picture of Lilly enjoying the prime rib. I know she makes her Daddy so proud! I was so proud that she liked my cooking! Lilly enjoys good BBQ and I'm glad she enjoyed mine.
This coming weekend is the annual Tiki Party here at "Camera nei Pini" and I have taken a few days off to get ready. I will be smoking about 6 pounds of pork on Friday and a 10 pound brisket on Saturday. Each takes about 10 - 12 hours to smoke. Since the party starts at 4pm on Saturday I will be up at 4am to get it going. I am so glad my smoker is electric and I will be able to go back to bed for a few hours after I put the brisket on to smoke. I'll have pictures in the next post for that. Ciao!
