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Posted on 09/01/2025 4:39:33 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Beautiful pictures! And you have your fall stuff out. Thanks for posting.
Bon; Spider lilies, Plumeria and Bouganville! Beautiful!
Running the smoker is not happening today. I was in line at the grocery store with spices and sauces when the electric flickered and brought their registers down. After 15 minutes, I and everyone else gave up and left. That and there's a bunch of stuff to do to be truly ready and not rushed. I got the smoker cleaned up and put the carriage bolts in to set round grates on. Salmon is thawed.
Salmon needs to brine. Ribs and Tri Tip need time to soak up the rub. Even though I got the grates installed. I don't have a dutch oven plan for what to make that I want to simmer in the smoker. Haven't fired the smoker up and run it hot to sterilize it either so I'll do that today.
I didn't buy enough nuts so I'll have to get more to prevent the grate from sliding around and falling when I'm putting something in or taking it out. Pic shows one per bolt but those were used for installing the second set of bolts. Really need two more for each bolt so I can lock them together. The creosote would lock them in place eventually but double nutting is immediate and permanent.
I did cut up the dead dry hickory out here into 6-8" lengths and have been grabbed pieces as I go by and splitting them. When I was getting the bolts from Ace, I also grabbed a new toy that I've been wanting for years, Fiskars hatchet, which is working great on the hickory.
Postponing the smoke session doesn't bother me at all and I think in the back of my mind, I knew would happen. Grocery store malfunction gave me the excuse. Now; chili, beans or soup in the dutch oven? Yeah, I'll shoot for Wednesday. Gonna be cloudy and slight chance of rain tomorrow. That'll give me tomorrow to get something figured out and going for the dutch oven.
For now, it's nice outside so I'm going to go finish up that part of prep work.
Well, you ARE one zone warmer, so your turf may get something out of it, whereas I would not in Zone 5. ;)
That’s what I was taught anyway, when I was selling grass seed for a living. ;)
Also - my customer base was ‘The People’s Republik of Madistan’ and ANY nitrogen going into THE LAKES was a no-no, so I can see why fall fertilizing was discouraged. They weren’t too keen on fertilizing your lawn in the spring either, LOL! They even pulled my very favorite 10-18-10 granular lawn fertilizer that I used to use in my garden beds. Terrific stuff.
But, you know - you can’t always get what you want in this world. ;)
I'm looking forward to Fall SUNSETS. We have the most beautiful ones directly to our west, all Fall long. The view from my front porch:
Beautiful!
Finally!!!
No, I don’t mean September or cooler weather getting here. Late August’s weather turned out to be great, if a bit too dry...
No, my biggest Mortgage Lifter tomato plant has “finally” set 3 fruits, and judging by the prolific flowering, there will be more soon. I have rigged up some more support.
It appears the plant wanted both the Bloom Booster and Super Phosphate AND cooler weather. Curiously, the weaker Mortgage Lifter plants set a few fruits a few days sooner. Even the one the hornworms damaged has a couple small fruits started, but, IDK if the plant can generate big fruits when it is still recovering & half what it should be.
ALSO, the plants from seeds of what I’m pretty sure were Golden Jubilee tomatoes last year are now growing fruits, and these fruits are still very green and bigger than any mature fruits the “Golden Jubilee” plants I got in starter pots from Menards /Bonnies this spring. The latter plants are still producing fruits that look the same as my Cherry Falls tomato plants are producing.
(The “earliest” of the Bonnies Cherry Falls plants from 4” pots has gone into “stasis” it seems: It’s staying alive, but not growing or producing even with a couple feedings applied in the last 2 weeks. The others, though, are still flowering and fruiting.)
Golden Jubilee tomatoes are heirloom and open-pollinated, so I’d hoped for good results, and, apparently I may get them. :-)
I’m jealous. We used to have great sunset views. Now, what we see to the West are 5 big silos on the other side of the road!
I may get the good results from the plants grown from seeds, that is!
FL has those sunsets and they last a long time since FL is flat. Gotta be on a hill here to see them for any length of time.
Smoker has been sterilized by hot fire. Got plenty of wood now. I’ve got great northern beans to rotate out so I guess that’s the first dutch oven cook. Just need to find a recipe.
Come sit on the porch with me this Fall! :)
SEVENTY Great Northern Bean recipes here. :)
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/17026/fruits-and-vegetables/beans-and-peas/great-northern-beans/
I’ll grow drying beans again next year. Totally in LOVE with ‘Good Mother Stollard’ bean, but a friend is crazy about ‘Beefy Beans’, so I’m going to research those as well.
Incredible, Diana! If you see any Northern Lights tonight, take some photos for me! I’m too far south! Rats!
Just out of curiosity, where did you live when you were in FL? My favorite sunsets are from a Gulf beach. I have several photos from various spots on beaches. Midwest sunsets are also lovely, as Diana has shown.
Thanks for the experienced advice, by the grace of God.
Composite image, top and side.
Time to make Boston baked beans! (To go with your can of brown bread with butter and cream cheese!)
I don’t know if this is true or not, and I don’t know what you have growing there, but I was told recently that if the stem is woody to dip it into rooting hormone powder, and you have a chance.
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