We all have to start somewhere, don't we?

Hello everyone!

That's called confidence. Confidence that more than one person will come here to read this site. Someday.

I am a meat eating Christian (Those who are in the Word may understand there is more than one meaning to that statement. More on that later). No reason to deny it. I love to cook meat over an open fire, whether it be a beautiful ribeye cooked hot and fast over red hot coals, or a perfectly marbled packer brisket slow smoked for endless hours to mouth watering perfection. See that picture at the top of the blog? That was my first ever brisket entry at a KCBS contest. It rocked! 5th place out of 39 teams. My own rub, my own sauce.



We are heading into the long Independence Day weekend, and I have yet to figure out what I am going to cook. Today I had a serious hankering for some pinto beans. Maybe that'll be part of it. I don't think I'm going to have time to do a long cook this weekend, so it will likely be brats, burgers, or steaks. I could squeeze in some spare though if I really wanted to.

Sometime in the last few years I find myself waking up on July 4th and breaking out a copy of the Declaration of Independence and reading it through. Have you ever done that? It is an incredible document that was, I believe, inspired by God. How else could men have written such an incredible treatise 234 years ago?

That's gonna have to do it for my first post. Time to go be a dad and help in the garage.

If you have read this, may God be with you until you come back again.