God Morning, minus 15.5 C today

Isabelle at the Missouri State Highway Patrol

Taking a written test in order to het her driving permit.

Isabelles birthday cake

Happy 15th

The day after the surgery

I'm feeling pretty good actually, I have some pain but it's not to
bad. However I'm eating a couple of different pain killers and I also
got some penicillin for an infection. Apart from that I also need to
rinse my mouth 5-6 times a day with a saltwater rinse and an
antibacterial rinse twice a day. My biggest concern is to keep the
wounds clean and not develop a dry socket anywhere.

I must say that beeing under sedation under the procedure was very
nice, the last thing I remember before waking up in a small room was
that I could smell and taste some of the sedation. The whole procedure
took about 30 minutes and acording to Dr. Tanner it went very well.

All I need now is a few more days to recover and get off the pain
medication.

Out of surgey

Everything seems to have gone well. I'm out of surgery and in my car
going home. Sandra has just stopped at the pharmacy to pick up some
medicine. The surgery took about 30 minutes and I have no recollection
of anything. My whole mouth is still sedated and it feels very
strange. Once the sedation let's go I giess I will be more in pain bit
right now it feels ok.

Time for surgery

After been having ache in a wisdom tooth all weekend I went to the dentist on Monday and they said that I need to remove it, so I'm scheduled for surgery in a couple of hours.

They have told me that I will be sedated during the procedure and that they will remove all four wisdom teeth at the same time. In a way it will be good to remove all of them, that way another wisdom tooth will not bother me in the future but on the other hand it feels like a much larger procedure than just removing the tooth that is aching.

I'll be updating the blog once I have recovered

HD Theater are showing the Speedway race from Ullevi, cool :)

This is what's left of the two ribs and chicken

Half time

Time to turn the meat over.

The chicken has gotten a good sprinkle of the rub (not the same as the ribs)

I'll let it rest for 30 minutes before putting it on the cooker.

Ribs rolled up

And ready to go on to the cooker

Ready to cook, perfect temperature

After about 20 minutes the lit coal....

...was dumped into the ring and I then added a second chimney of unlit
coal on top of the lit. I'll leave that for about 30-40 minutes then
I'll add the smoke wood and assemble the cooker.

And now they are lit. Time to wait 15 min.

The coals are put in the chimney

I'm going to use a chimney starter.

You fill the chimney with coal and the light news paper in the bottom
and wait for about 15 minutes.

It's time to fire up the smoker

The meat should sit for about two hours with the rub on before you
start to cook so it is time to light the charcoal.