Recent content by drew61199

The struggle is real! Ha. The last few months have been focused on the holidays (we have 5 kids), so will be tackling this in a few weeks. I'm in FL, so no threat of winter weather. I was at a buddy's the other night for a Christmas party and it reminded me how nice his setup is. It's...

Beautiful. Yeah, originally I thought about running water - even tee'd off from a pipe in the house to the outside, but then would have needed a French drain for drainage (unsure legality), if I wanted hot water that meant an on-demand at that faucet, etc, etc, so think I'm gonna skip it. My...

A few years ago I started building an outdoor kitchen - got as far as framing and putting up some cement board and then had a water pipe burst in the house - over 3000 gallons while we slept (bedrooms upstairs.....pipe was downstairs). We took the opportunity to do quite a few upgrades and I did...

So my baby turned 3 a few days ago and we're having a family bday party for her today. I woke up a few hours ago to throw the butt on the smoker and figured I may try this "posting BBQ progress throughout the day" thing. I'll throw some chicken on later (open to recipes / suggestions if anyone...

Howdy all. I live in St. Augustine, FL w/ my beautiful wife and four kids. I'm not even sure how I got into smoking, but if I recall correctly, several years ago I bought a cheap electric smoker thinking it might be fun to try. The wife and kids seemed to enjoy the food the few times I used it...