new spa too cold!

Oops, letting the blog down again, and for no reason except I forgot it existed!  We had nice weather on Monday and the food was bought sunday so I ran my smoker and the bbq.  Some turkey, some chicken, some smoked, some bbq, some finished in the bbq.  We're chowing down on it all week now, and that's with a couple of chickens in the freezer too.  Yeah, I smoked whole chickens and it worked well!  I did finish them off in the bbq because they just didn't feel cooked enough.  I've gotten quite good at this.  Turkey breast so soft and juicy a baby could chew it, or your oldest relative!  Chicken with a flavour both deep and sweet and salty.  next time I really need to play with spice heat.
I spent money we didn't have from our credit card on the weekend.  The one we can't pay off, yeah.  $350 got us a cute little inflatable hot tub with built-in heater.  I'm not impressed with the temperature it reaches but it should be nicer when the weather improves. Today really sucked the big one.  Wind and cloud and cool.
Well I should take the dog out and unplug the pond.  It did get thawed to the bottom now, I'm pleased about that.  I should definitely hook up the filter soon and get the water cleaning, or drain and refill it.

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