Mialkowski Family News

Since this past Saturday was to have real nice weather, I set that day aside for cleaning out the gutters on the house. It’s been years since I did it last, and I really want the mosquitoes to be at a minimum this year. I have those metal screens that clip on the gutters, but debris still gets in there, mainly pine needles and pollen and stuff like that. So I threw on my work gloves and climbed the ladder. I would end up scraping over 1/2 of real black dirt from the gutters that the leaves have broken down into the past several years. Fine dirt, I should market “Roger’s Gutter Dirt” or something. Afterwards I would flush the gutters with my garden hose to give me that bare metal look inside the gutters. The night before we went food shopping so I picked up a $7 clearance T-Bone steak. Once I got done with the roof, I sparked up some charcoal. While that was catching in my charcoal chimney, I prepared some potatoes. I speared up some red potatoes so I got 6 spears from each of the 4 tots. I spread them on some foil and sprayed them with spray butter. I wrapped up the foil and that’s what you see on the grill along with the T-Bone, some chicken, and a few hot dogs.

Saturday Slaughter

While the food was cooking, Katherine decided (great idea) we eat outside! The weather was go and the bugs were no. I found a fold-up table and got some camping chairs together along with Lily’s high chair so she can partake in the festivities. Of course, this whole time, I have the radio playing some rock-n-roll.

Lily Can't Wait

Finally, the meal was cooked, the meat was done, and the potatoes were melt-in-your-mouth with a buttery texture. I shared my T-Bone with Katherine & Lily. Lily loved it sooo much that…

T-Bone Tear-up

It was right around 72 degrees last evening and I had planned to get some red meat sizzling on the charcoals. I went to this butcher shop called The Meat Man and picked up an inch thick top sirloin which I had them sliced into 2 – 1/2 inch steaks. Each steak was over a pound in weight. I marinated it for an hour or so (wish I could have done that longer) in a mixture of ketchup, Hickory Smoke flavored BBQ sauce, Worchestire sauce, water and some herbs and spices. This crappy camera I used doesn’t do the below pictures any justice. Go ahead, click on each of the pictures in a futile  attempt to savor the tender meat.

Geez, it’s been MONTHS since I last updated this thing. Not to mention the 500 or so spam comments I had to moderate through. I’ve upgraded the WordPress software to its current version and have activated an anti-spam function so that should help. Lots of backblogs to come. Katherine’s camera died (too bad, it’s a Canon and I had high hopes for that brand) so we’re kinda low on pictures from the Holidays.

See, I always try to catch up with past activities! Anyways, so we met up with the same friends as from the Labor Day picnic and we all went to the fair. They have a boy within a month of Lily’s age. Below is Katherine taking Lily on the carousel. Lily likes carousels, she’s been on them at the Mall of Georgia and Dollywood.

And now, it’s daddy’s turn to take Lily in a circle, except this time, it’s going to be on a real live pony!

Let’s see, we ate some pizza, italian sausage sandiwch, corndogs bbq sandwich, Ah, I remember last year, the Krystal‘s (like White Castle) trailer was there and they were having contests all day long for who can eat the most Krystal’s in 120 seconds. Katherine and I entered. I ate 8 of them little burgers and I came in 1st for that heat!!! That’s only because I had pizza shortly before I knew they were doing the thing.