Can we just have an old fashion IM thread?

Just got finished with a taco salad. Very good. Wife is about to head to work for the night. Im probably gonna do some music here for a few hours then pass out. Heading to work in the morning about 5am.....

Just got back from the Keys for a week. Had a blast but I came back go over 70 internet orders and 5 dealer orders. I have been in the shop this week 14 hours a day and I worked today and will work tomorrow. Almost caught up.

Installing my outdoor kitchen Monday. I hired a couple of amigos to help me do the manpower part. 5 crates of parts in my garage and driveway...

Went to Cudjoe Key this year. Had a house with a dock and kept the boat in the water. Amazing week.

I caught hell taking a week off in March but I honestly dgaf... It was worth it

Yard work today. Canoeing the river tomorrow.


ETA: Lanier, didn’t you have a Shad spawn spinnerbait? Looked for it on the website and didn’t see it.

One of my bandmates’ wife had her birthday today, got together with a dozen of her friends and took a sunset cruise across Pensacola Bay

then hit her favorite restaurant on the bayfront for dinner, drinks and chocolate cake

almost perfect evening except for the frigid north wind that whipped up and down the boardwalk (because we were such a large party, we were seated outside)

still had a nice time with a lot of good friends, not a bad way to spend a Saturday evening

Seeing the family off to the beach for spring break. Woohoo. House to myself for a week.

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Went to Cudjoe Key this year

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My cousin (actually mom's 1st cousin) and his wife used to live on Cudjoe. It was their "retirement home" when he took early retirement from ARAMCO and moved back to the states from Saudi.

They have since moved up to one of the lakes around Orlando to be closer to grandkids, but that's as the coolest house and location. Right on a canal, davits to get the boat out of the water but easy to put in and go. I loved it the couple of times we visited.

I spent the weekend cooking, cleaning, and doing errands for my 80 year old parents. Since my work is mostly mental, I enjoy doing some stuff I don't have to think about. I am sitting on the back porch now watching the two tomcats dismember a rabbit.

Todays job. My outdoor kitchen came in on Thursday last week and I hired some guys to come out today and un-crate it and carry it around to the lanai. The panels are solid concrete and the countertops are granite so it’s heavy as hell.

I managed to get the pieces in place by myself and get it all screwed together. The last countertop is 84” x 40 something inches and it weighs over 400 pounds. We’ll have to get someone to help me put that up there.

All I have left to do is to put the trim pieces do a little shimming, install the last countertop, then put the appliances in which are fairly easy. Probably finish on Thursday.


I bought this system as a modular system and it is awesome. It is incredibly solid, but it is heavy as hell and I’m too fricking old to be moving those panels around and doing it by myself. Will take me a few days to recover. Should have it up and running this weekend and making some smash burgers one day on the griddle and smoking some ribs on the pellet smoker the next. Been a long time waiting for this.

This wkend was my birthday.We did some mtn biking, grilled some lamb chops with a nice bottle of wine, then went for sushi last night.
I'm boycotting the tourney after AU broke me.