I'm smokin anyway!

[glued2it]

I know allot of you are having worse weather than this. However it's not prime conditions for smoking.


(In my best proud speech voice)

Come rain sleet or snow, my pit will blow thin blue smoke!
I will not back down from what Mother Nature has brought my way!
I will stand tall and proud as I look out the window to view my thermometers!
Man has climbed the highest mountains!
Crossed the largest ferocious seas!
Journeyed to other cosmic lands!
Therefore I will Q!
Although it will require all my strength and wisdom,
I will conquer the task that has been set before me!
If I do not return from this treacherous journey,
Do not come looking for me,
For I will have fallen into a deep sleep with my stomach full of Q and beer!

 

[dingle]

Hey Glued....you come up with that all on your own?? That was mighty impressive. I will live by that!

 

[wvsmokeman]

YES!!!

 

[bbq bubba]

Are ya smokin Jeremy or just blowin smoke???

 

[brianj517]

Damn G2I...Pure poetry...I think I got something in my eye...sniff...

 

[rip]

I will go with that.........but it's 74 and no wind here today.

 

[pigcicles]

Glued... that's nice. Words to Q by. Inspirational even.

Did the wife write that for you?

 

[gypsyseagod]

"smokin in the rain... i'm smokin' in the rain"(to the tune of singing in the rain).great post. here's our weather today
http://www.weather.com/outlook/recre...m=recentsearch

 

[homebrew & bbq]

That's some good speechifying, Jeremy. I guess we know who to have give the keynote address at the next gathering.

Good luck with your smoke and put up some pictures for those of us who aren't Q-ing.

 

[glued2it]

I did write it myself, Too much coffee this morning I guess. I Qin' today and tomorrow. Grillin' steaks too.

 

[ggnutsc]

I nominate Glued as the official "SMF Poet Laureate". If you don't know what one of these are you can check here to see what I'm talking about....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_Laureate

I wonder if instead of standing on the roadside leaning on a shovel if these people lean on a pencil next to a desk....

Seriously though; Good stuff glued! The smoker here is idle today. We will go to my company Christmas party tonite and feast on catered in, mass produced, smoked/cured, cooked on the grill pork loin. (on second thought maybe I should eat at home???)

I may try and smoke some cheese tomorrow. It's supposed to be cold and that makes it easier to keep my temps down in the GOSM. If I do I'll get some pics or evn some video and post it.

Enjoy your smoke and beer.... That's what weekends are for!!

 

[glued2it]

What the heck did I get myself into now?

 

[glued2it]

Even though this thread was all in good fun..........

Those comments actually gave me a great Idea for a SMF Gathering speech!

 

[morkdach]

hey just north of you a couple hundred miles cant see out the window but i can smell it

 

[bbq bubba]

You can smell something allright!!!

 

[richtee]

Hahaha...Yeah, but "Hooked on 'Phonix'" ain't gonna help yer punctuation ;{)
-The SMF Poet Laureate Trainer

 

[smokincowboy]

Realy a good one I felt it in the heart, I had to go out and pat my smokers

 

[capt dan]

very nice there Glued.

Well I spent 5 hrs and about 50 bucks making a shack for stinky today. I already had the OSB(used 6 sheets), and the 2x4s and screws, cuz I am in the business of building stuff!

. The only thing I had to buy was 3 hinges, and a couple pieces of 3 inch elbows and a 2 ft chunk of flex to get the smoke outside of the "stinky shack"!.It only got up to 30 today, and we have freezing rain comming tonight. I did a test run on a chimney full of lump to check draw and temps, and to make sure the Mav -73 still sent a signal through the shack walls. Everything checked out good. I will post pics tomorrow. I am gonna do a couple 8 lb butts. I was gonna chop a 18 lb chuck into 3 pieces and do it too, but one of the butts, kinda pulled in two when I was washing and rubbing tonight. Never had one do that, but there was a layer of skinny/slimey fat in the middle of it that almost seperated it, so I just hacked it in two. So Now the space on the Charbroil silver has been comprimised, and I can't put 6 seperate pieces of roast/butt on that grill space. I'll do the beef next weekend.

The wife and kids accused me of being"too hick" when they seen my fine creation, but they will be laughin when I bring in the fine smoked food, and no more finishing it in the oven.

The test run went well, and the temp inside the stinky shack was about 60 degrees with the door closed,and the grate temps were good, just like june in Michigan! No more wicked wind issues either. I did have to promise to take the shack down come springtime.

It is 6 ft wide, and 4 ft deep, and the back wall is 8 ft tall, and the front wall with the doorway is 80 inches. Doorway is 3 ft wide by 71 inches high( I am a short fella). I still need to put a couple shelves in there. A clip on light and a few air vent holes, and thats about it. I did stretch a 5x7 ft piece of ripstop tartp across the roof before I put it on( I made it like a drop in panel) it will keep the inside dry, but I used it mainly for the fact that snow doesn't stick to it at all. It was too cold to paint it, but I built it in panels , so when I take it down in the spring, I can paint it then, and then stash it away in the barn till the following fall.

I can finally smoke stuff at will, instead of looking at the longterm forecast.
Enough jabbering. I'll get some pics tomorrow, of the stinky shack, and the Q!

 

[squeezy]

Looking forward to th pix of your shack ... hick or not, it's all about making it work for you.
I have my CCSV parked just inside my garden shed that protects me from any thing other than a south wind.
Today the heat melted snow on the roof and it was dripping down the back of my neck!

 

[richtee]

Methinks I may never see
something more mis-used than the apostrophe
before the ess it shows possession
and this is only half the lesson

AFTER the ess it takes the place
of redundant esses, then just a space
So while you mind your P's and Q's
think about apostrophies too!