Florence

Monday

Looks like hurricane Florence will do major damage to the East coast if it continues on its current path and continues to increase in wind speed.  Coverage of Florence is dominating the news and weather.

First thing this morning UPS dropped off our new cordless Dyson V10 vacuum.  I brought it in and unpacked the box, lots of packing.  There are still some attachments in transit, it has lots of attachments.

Then we decided to head over to Isom's Orchard, they have fruit and veggies.  Bonnie got some Peaches, Apples, Tomatoes, and Okra.  They already have the Pumpkins out for Halloween.

Bonnie also picked us up an Apple Cider Slushy, delicious.

Then a quick stop at the Walmart neighborhood market for a few groceries.  Finally back home for the day.  No wait a minute, Bonnie got a text and took off to meet our GS and take him a pair of pants for work.

Hamburger helper, picked beets, and a muffin for supper.  Good day.

Tuesday

I remember this day in 2001 like it was this morning.

The postoffice delivered my new Apple TV today and I hooked it up and downloaded a bunch of apps.  Then UPS and the Big Brown Truck brought some more tools for the new Dyson vacuum.

Bonnie wanted hamburgers again for supper so I fired up the Charbox again and with the help of the Thermo Pen instant read thermometer grilled some near perfect burgers.  Heard a car horn and then two Granddaughters yelling Poppy as they headed home from Soccer practice.

After taking out the trash tote it was time or maximum relaxing and Americas Got Talent.

Wednesday

The heat is back it got up to 90 today.  UPS delivered our order of SnapPower Guide Lights today.  I installed one and had trouble with the GFCI one so will have to investigate that further.
Hot dogs for supper, Nathens, they were tasty and good.  Then I picked up the girls and ran them over to their church for their Wednesday activities.
Then I picked up Bonnie and we headed to our church for our group study of Daniel.  Back home and  I am about ready to head to bed.

Florence is still a major hurricane and should impact the East Coast tomorrow.

Thursday

We decided to smoke a pork butt around 11 today, could be a late supper as it should take around 8 hours.  All prepped with rub and onto the pellet smoker/grill.

The rub makes it "sweat" as it pulls out moisture.  After two hours.

It was nice and sunny when I started this, then it turned overcast.  When it was time to baste it was pouring, once it let up a little I went out and basted it.

Hopefully this will make a nice bark and it is giving it good color.  The internal temperature was at 145 after 5 hours.  So I put it in a pan and covered it with foil, increased the grill to 350 and now to wait until it gets up to 295 internal temp, then it should easily pull apart.

About 2 hours later it was done.

We let it cool for about 40 minutes and then pulled enough off it for supper.

We added some potatoes, carrots and corn relish, it was delicious according to Bonnie.  I enjoyed it also.

We watch the news and the weather about hurricane Florence, it is looking bad for the East Coast.

I shredded the rest of the pork and put some pieces for Bonnie in the refrigerator.Then we cleaned up the kitchen and ran the dish washer.

After the downpours we had today the rain gauge on shows .52 in of rain.  I cleaned up the grill and spread out the cover to dry overnight.  Time to relax now.

Friday

Got up this morning to learn that Florence made landfall near Wilmington.  While the wind died down a little still a lot of trees down.  The predicted rain and flooding is happening and a lot of people are stranded.  We watched some on the weather channel and will continue to check it throughout the day.

I checked the Garmin site for Honda and it looks like the map update is finally available to download.    So I plugged in a USB drive and about 1/2 hour later the map update was downloaded.  After Bonnie got up I went out and ran the update in my Honda Ridgeline and it worked perfectly and only took about twelve minutes.

Then it was time to install some of the guide lights for Bonnie.  I put in 4 more and we have five more and some will go upstairs.  They install quickly as the prongs on the sides make contact with the terminal screws.

They look pretty much like the original.  Thats a combo light sensor and switch that adjusts the bright ness in the lower left.

And they look pretty good at night, here are a couple of them.

Saturday

Looks like a hot one today.  Florence continues to dump rain and some wind on the East coast.

Bonnie went with me to Reagan's soccer game today as she was personally invited last night by Reagan.  They are playing pretty good.  Most of the game was played in the other teams half of the field and we scored several goals.  But the other team has one very good player and she scored all the goals for the other team and more than we scored, all on breakaways.  We had umbrellas to sit under and there was a good breeze so it was not too bad.

I watched some college football this afternoon, mostly SEC teams.  Then I grilled some chicken breast for supper and Bonnie made her delicious coleslaw.  Then we settled in to watch the Alabama-Ole Miss game.  Once again we have scored over 50 points and its just minutes into the 2nd half.

Hopefully we will end up with the win.  Tomorrow is our new members class at church where we have an opportunity to ask questions about the church, looking forward to it.

Well thats a wrap for this week.

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