Yes it is early Thanksgiving morning. Crazy my baby wants everything fresh. It has to be made the day of the event. To me, I would made the turkey and sweet potatoes. The day before and all will be right. NO my baby wants fresh that means the day of.
This is called a chimney. This is for charcoal fires. My baby doesn't like using gas grills. But we still have one, just in case? Okay so you put newspaper pieces down under the chimney. Then inside the chimney you put in lighting charcoal then the regular charcoal on top of the lighting charcoal. Then you light the newspaper piece and wait for a nice glowing fire inside of it,
Like this. It is a beautiful fire started.
Then we started a burning fire. This is used to feed the charcoal fire. Just in case there is not enough fire for smoking.
Meanwhile inside the grill itself is set up with a chain of charcoal and it goes around the outside of where the meat will lay.
Here is a picture of just cooking one item. But we have two turkeys to smoke today. Do you see the chain going around the grill? Plus you will see apple wood on top of the charcoal. So now there is two tins of water in the grill because there is two meats to be smoked. This keeps the grease from dropping into the bottom of the grill and keeps the meat moist.
This method of smoking your meats. It really works too. The first time we did this, was last year. The sad part the charcoal was not laying on top of each other. The fire went out. You need to put down two pieces of charcoal opposite each other. Then putting a piece on top of them this way the chain will keep burning.
Now we have the turkeys smoking and doing well. Okay we need sweet potatoes for ourselves. I got to peel an cut up the sweet potatoes. There will be enough food for the family as everyone has brought a dish to feed us all.
Looking pretty good!!!!
This is the one for the family get together.
Jeanne had it in her head that the party starts at 1pm. We still would have been later, got there at 1:30pm. But the funny thing is no one showed up until around 2:00 or a little later than that. Once everyone got here, we stood around in a circle and prayed and ask for blessings on the food and family.
I think there was 8, plus missing. Not sure why? But we all had plenty to eat an just enjoy getting caught up on some of their lives. Jeanne and I sat at the kitchen table here and enjoyed talking with Shaughnessy's mom and dad. Tom was her dad's name I a sorry but I never got her mom's name. Then David, (Shaughnessy's hubby) I think this the most I have ever talked with him? It really was kinda neat to find out how he was doing. He is the one that got a NEW KIDNEY AND PANCREAS. David was very sick, he was on dialysis machine three times a day. I think about three month ago, they got a call to told him to drive down to Miami, to the Miami Transplant Institute World Class Transplant Center. They drove down there and waited to see if the new kidney was working, and the sad part was it didn't take? So they drove back home, then two months ago, they got another call and went back and all went well. Everything is working correctly. PRAISE OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVOR.
So while we talked, found out he doesn't have any sugar problem any more. The new PANCREAS FIXED that too. Our Lord is SOOOOO GOOD.
Then we started talking about Jeanne's boat, fixing up project. We have this guy named Roger an he has been working our her boat since July. He is almost done. Only needs to put down the skid proof aggregate. But as of today, he has stopped working on it, he has another project to start up.
So now David has been a bait guy down in the inter coastal water in Fort Pierce, for many years. While he has not been able to go out and caught bait, he sold his boat. So after the operation, he is having a new boat built. This is going to be his bait boat an family boat too. He is putting tanks on top of it to hold the bait and this way he can take them off and be able to use the boat with his family. Kinda neat to hear all about it.
I asked him about the trolling motor He told us he has one order for his boat already. It really is neat how you punch in the GPS course and you stay right on it. So this last week-end Jeanne ordered one for her boat now. It came in yesterday an not sure of the cost. But she wants it. She shall have it.
This is Shaughnessy's Dad and mom.
This is Shaughnessy and my lovely wife, Jeanne. Just getting caught up with her.
Folks this was the best time I have ever had so far with her family. Most of the time I really don't talk that much. But with David it was so much fun. Just getting ideas how God blessed him and to see the difference in how he looks today, compared to during Easter family get together. When we get together sometimes I feel like a outsider, which I am. But this day was great. Another thing I look back, Dustin was not here. He is one of the guys that really loves to take over a conversation. I have tried to talk with him and he pretty much rules. You know these guys have known each other for many year now. I am the new kid on the block.
So I walked away very happy and felt like I a part of the family now.
Thank you Lord for all you are doing in David's life and family.
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