Road tripping today to Wilmington, NC for my FIL's 86th birthday, a grandson's marching band performance and a granddaughter's graduation from cheerleading camp.
Eastern North Carolina is dotted with hundreds of mysterious lakes and ponds known as the Carolina Bays. They are all elliptically shaped and oriented along the same directional axis. Cypress trees like this are common. The water ranges from tannic rich resembling soy sauce to crystal clear. - https://amer... social.lol
Ribs are my spirit animal. I use the 3-2-1 method. Three hours on the grill, two hours wrapped in the oven and one hour unwrapped in the overn with a few minutes under the broiler at the very end.
So where is the strangest place your job has ever taken you? OTD in 2023, I had to upgrade 20 computers in a human anatomy lab at a medical school. This silver cabinets you see, each have a cadaver in them. None of them were willing to help me install Windows 11.
Today we see these tobacco barns slowly falling apart as we drive through Eastern North Carolina. The day is coming when they will all be gone and another connection to the place we were born will be lost. Good riddance? Probably, but what is part of our past is still part of us. -
