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60's in February? Ribs on the barbie already

Super bowl sunday a friend had a card party and he smoked some briskett he was up to like 3am then his brother took over. Because it got down to the teens that nite and the north wind blowing no way he was able to keep the heat consistent @ around 225.Had i known I would have had him move it the oven at about 200. The taste was great but not nearly all the fat/tissue renderd out so pretty damn tough.He wasn' there actually to tell him later. Everytime he smoked it earlier in the season it was as good as it gets - he has the rub down though

must have mild winters there if the Robins can survive

Maybe a lot of them haven't,I know alot of shrubs/hedges/bushes and such have edibles in them.The Robins actually like those seeds/berries on poison ivy/sumac which are high off the ground

Yeah a brisket has absorbed about all the smoke it's going to, in the first 5-6 hours.  At that point there's pretty much zero difference in flavor between the smoker and the oven.

And even when it dips down into the 40s or 50s here in Austin, I find it more difficult to smoke on my stick-burning offset.  Can't imagine trying to do it down in the teens.

I was thinking about them robins here today, while I was hosing out/vacuumming my garage floor.   Need to position my reflectors and other foreign objects (which consists of using my kids old toys, pompons  with sparkles/color) for strategic placement under the soffits, on the moldings at our portico entrance.  old rubber purple fishing worms do the trick too.   Bird spikes alone don't get the job done.

They will be making their moves here in the next month, followed by the ducks which love to snuggle and nest between my boxwoods (best use of jarred minced garlic I can think of).

I was thinking about them robins here today, while I was hosing out/vacuumming my garage floor.  Need to position my reflectors and other foreign objects (which consists of using my kids old toys, pompons  with sparkles/color) for strategic placement under the soffits, on the moldings at our portico entrance.  old rubber purple fishing worms do the trick too.  Bird spikes alone don't get the job done.

They will be making their moves here in the next month, followed by the ducks which love to snuggle and nest between my boxwoods (best use of jarred minced garlic I can think of).

Bastard - let the little fella's nest under your soffitting on a light - i do.After all you built a home on what was once their woods - . They could die trying to eat those - really.Don't make me come up there,a friend told me years ago he opened his tackle box to clean out before we left for Quebec.Anyway he left it open in the driveway went in side for awhile came out and there was a Robin tugging at one of them

We had snow wll into April,perhaps May last year - i remember it was a month after the opener - didn't last long but still

About the latest we ever get a freeze here is early March, the first week.  After that is starts warming up for good.

And a "freeze" here usually means an overnight low below freezing, with daytime temps warming up into the 40s or higher.

Aside from last year's unprecedented Icepocalypse that lasted 9 days at my house, we rarely get a hard freeze of more than a day.

good for Iowa's and Nebraska's economy