Another long time lurker here who is taking advantage of the 30-day trial. I'm 57 and working on a second career in IT following nearly 30 years in the Canadian Air Force. I'm also the cook in the family (wife, son, daughter and foster-daughter) and grilling and smoking is a natural extension of that.
I currently own a natural gas grill and a PBC, and I tend to use the grill most of the year (my standing offer to the kids is "you clear the snow off the deck so I can get at the BBQ, and I will use it". Today is the first cook of the year in the PBC, mainly because I have been too damn busy to do anything before now -- youngest graduates high school in a few weeks and that has been a bit chaotic. Today is gorgeous and I can't go anywhere because I am on-call this weekend so it is a perfect time. I just hung a couple of beautiful pork shoulders in the PBC, all rubbed up pretty with the last of my current batch of Meathead's Memphis Dust. I'll likely pass the afternoon making a new batch as well as a batch of Big Bad Beef Rub. Pulled pork, potatoes and carrots in foil and sweet peppers on the grill, and a German cucumber salad, and we'll call that a meal.
It is not a long weekend up here - that was last weekend - so I hope you guys all have a great Memorial Day weekend.
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