Current status - 100PM Pacific Daylight Time

Pork ribs are in the smoker and things are smokin'
3-Bean salad is made and chilling in the fridge
Garbage taken out
Temp outside is 91F (32.8C), normal for this area this time of year
The local idiots are already setting for fireworks
Sitting inside and sipping a Coke Zero.

Replying to @Jason844@mastodon.social

Current status - updated to 300pm PDT

🔹 Chilling on the patio for a bit.
🔹 Pork ribs have been smokin' for 2 hours now
🔹 An Evil Squirrel is up in the maple tree eating seeds
🔹 94F (34.4C) & 19% humidity, normal summer weather for the wilds of eastern Washington state.
🔹 Light breeze
🔹 About to nibble of local cherries and, from my own tree, apricot.
🔹 The local idiots continue to set of fireworks
🔹 Hearing the call of mourning doves

View of my patio.  An old (20 years?) CharGriller side-firebox grill/smoker with pork ribs cooking inside.  Two charcoal chimneys below. 
Lower right:  A bowl with locally grown Rainier cherries and a couple of apricots from my tree.  Also, the temperature-controlled blower used with the CharGriller.  Plum tree in the distant background.
Left:  The remote smoker thermometer can be seen.  The storage box with grill supplies at left.
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