hot dog roast

The other night we feasted on fresh King Salmon!  There's a new seafood market in town and we were able to buy whole salmon for $8.50 a pound!  We bought three whole salmon. 
Mike grills THE BEST salmon.  Here's his secret ingredient--Hickory Smoked Salt.  Yes, you heard it here, first. 
Sprinkle a generous amount on both sides of the steaks.  These steaks are "butterflied." 
Then you grill on a hot bed of coals for literally a couple minutes, just until the salmon is no longer raw.  You want to get it off the grill while the oils are still oozing out.  That's what makes it so good.
The salmon flakes away just so....  and it's so good you'll think you died and went to Heaven. 
Yes, it's THAT good.

Anyhow, that was two night's ago. 
Last night we had Ball Park All Beef Dogs roasted on an open fire in the back yard!

I'm not too keen on hot dogs, but it hardly gets any better than this!

 

It started like this, with the coals just perfectly right. 

Mike made this new fire pit this year and it's so much nicer to sit around.
Our other one was just a pit of rocks and blocks and used more to burn yard debris than to enjoy.

Mike's first dog ended like this....

Yea.... he overcooked his dog.... or maybe it was the stick....
No matter, the dog ended up in the coals.

 It looks pretty disgusting here.... 

 Smores anyone? 

It was a good night.

good finds

Ahhhhhhh....... that's the sound of a contented garage saler!  I've not been able to do much g.saling in the past few years because I worked at the nursery on weekends.  But now I'm not working any more....  and.... 

The addiction started last Saturday when my sister was in town.  We got up early and was heading out the door by 7:30 a.m. trying to find treasures we couldn't live without.  In our sleepy little town, we usually have sales only on Saturdays from 7:00 or 8:00 a.m. until noonish.  Not very often will you see one on a Friday or a Sunday.  So the saying, "the early bird gets the worm," is never more true than when garage saling in our small town.  If you get up at 10:00 a.m. and think you're going to find any treasures, you're sadly mistaken.  They're all gone by 9:30! 

My sweet husband was my chauffeur today.  He's not too keen on looking through someone else's trash... I mean treasures.... but he is willing to take me so I can. Here's some of my finds.   

This shelf unit is quite large.  You can tell as it's spanning an oversized chair.  The dust didn't cost anything extra....  I hate sales where the people haven't priced the items, so you have to ask.  I generally will pass the item up before I ask "how much?"  But I wanted this shelf!  We plan on building a new shed and I intend on making a potting shed on the backside of it where I can hang all my tools in one handy place.  This will go on the wall of my potting shed and my small pots and doodads will be displayed nicely here.  I'll probably paint it a cute lime green or  maybe a turquoise....   I'm thrilled with this find!  And the price....?  $2.00!!!!

I was also thrilled with this little glass dome.  It looks like crackled glass.  I wanted it, just because.....  It cost me .50 so I couldn't leave it.  

You have to have vision for this treasure.  I see a gazing ball, a glass ball, laying inside the rim of this and smartly displayed in my garden somewhere.  Or.... possibly a pretty plate on top with some fresh pastry....?

I was just telling my hubby a few days ago that I wanted to switch our dinnerware to white dishes.  There they were!  Funny thing, I was looking at this exact same set at Walmart.  $10.00 for a serving for four, plus an unrelated large, white platter. 

I thought we did quite well today, and can hardly wait until next Saturday to see what treasures will come our way.