Lazy Saturday Barbecue

6-10 Pork Ribs
Salt and Pepper
Favorite basting oil
Favorite bottled barbecue sauce or homemade
One can of favorite baked beans
One small pkg. of 6 corn on the cob

Salt and pepper the ribs

Drizzle some basting oil and spread it all over each rib.

Cover the meat with some plastic wrap and let set about an hour.

In the mean time. . . . . . . . . . this is what you do. . . . .,

and when it's time. . . . . .if you can. . . . . . pull yourself out of your cooled, relaxed state to continue. . . .

 Take your meat and put it on your pre-heated grill.  Turn heat to low and cook the meat low and slow.

Baste the meat with the oil every time you turn it over.

While the meat is cooking, start working on anything else you're going to serve.  Pour a can of beans into a small serving dish (this is plenty for 3-4 people).  Salt and pepper.

Add  1/4 cup brown sugar and 1/4 cup ketchup.  Stir completely, heat in the microwave for five minutes.

After you've grilled the meat for about an hour, drizzle and spread some barbecue sauce on half of the grilled ribs, so that you can have half basted and half with barbecue sauce.

The corn was already husked and cooked, all I had to do was warm them up which I did on the grill (talk about lazy).  If you want to see how I cooked it with the husk on, click here.

So, it was a lazy Saturday, my house didn't need too much cleaning so I decided to just skip it completely and start on an early dinner (we usually eat early on Saturdays) and take it easy by the pool.   My hubby loves ribs but I know he was looking forward to the baked beans as well.  I used Grandma Brown's baked beans.  Unfortunately, we can't always find them in any of the stores in our town.  We first fell in love with them back when we lived in upstate NY almost 30 years ago and the only place we could get them was at Wegman's (best. grocery/market. EVER!) , there are several Wegman's up in N. VA, just a few hours away so we often go up there to do all kinds of shopping.  Anyway, these baked beans remind my hubby of his mother's homemade baked beans that she used to make.  They were never saucy or runny but thick and tasty.  He'll never touch Bush's (sorry Bush's) or any other kind - they don't compare.  Anyways. . . . . why do Saturdays have to go bye sooooo fast?!!  Oh well, I'm sitting here savoring the weekend!!

I partied at:

Spring Planting and Pool

I'm not a gardener, I do not have a green thumb but instead a brown thumb but I, like most everyone, love flowers, love all kinds of plants in and around my house.  I am very fortunate though to live with someone who does have a green thumb (my mother-in-law - MIL) and I go as far as to say that everything she touches, turns to ........green.  I joke around with her to please go around all my plants and flowers and just give them a gentle touch and that will insure a full healthy life with plenty of new growth and many blossoms to come :)

This is what I've planted so far . . . . .

Silhouette Pink Double Impatiens and Nonstop Fire Tuberous Begonia

I have these on my patio, in the shade.

My "twin" geraniums located out by the front entrance to our house

Purple Petunias

My MIL planted these beautiful purple Petunias by the front of the house, just below the living room picture window

Miniature Rose Bush

MIL's transplanted rose bush.  She brought from her apt. where she lived before.  I took this picture a week ago and it now has one beautiful red rose blossom.

Geranium

My MIL's geranium plant and I believe this one is also a transplant.  This geranium is planted some where near the rose and the petunias she planted.

Tulips and Hyacinth
I planted these Tulips and Hyacinth plants in the front of the house, just below the sunroom windows.  These were my indoor Easter plants but once Easter was over, I decided to transfer them into the ground.  I listened to Martha Stewart on her radio show the other day and she said she never had any good luck in transplanting these forced bulb plants from the pot to the ground so I'm a little worried if these are going to survive or not.  I mean if MS can't do it then who can?  I'll make sure my MIL touches & "blesses" them. :) and pray they multiply for next year since they are perennials.  I LOVE perennials.  

Gerbera

I have these two Gerbera plants on our table on the patio.

Herbs

The start of my new herb row.  I still need to find a nice pot for my Rosemary though.

Herb row continues

Don't ask me why I have so many Oregano plants, I couldn't tell you.

Purple Pansies

I could have my lawn filled with these, I love them so.

Blue Star Creeper - 
the perfect ground cover- I still can't find where I want to put it, so it stays in its pot until then.

Parsley

Two kinds of Parsley - flat leaf and curly

Sorry, I can't remember what these are named but they look like some kind of a daisy.  We have yet to buy some mulch but soon and very soon we will.

Clover
Just below the "Daisies" I transplanted this green Clover from the pot.  I bought the pot just before St. Patrick's Day and since it's been doing so well, I just figured I'd try to transplant it to see how it does.  It's been in the ground for almost two weeks and it's still going strong.

Creeping Phlox

This is one of my favorite plants in this area.  It's a perennial so not only does it return every year, it spreads. It's a ground cover and I can't wait to see what it looks like in a couple of years.  This picture makes the blossoms look much bigger than they appear.  They're normally the size of my thumbnail but when bunched together with many more, this plant is a perfect Spring decorative plant.  I have these planted on each corner wall by the pool.

Marigolds

MIL planted these Marigolds next to the gazebo by the pool.

Once again, I don't know what kind these are.  I just saw them and fell in love them and had to bring them home.  Hubby had not taken the top off the pool yet until just a couple of days ago but not when I took this picture.

Japanese Maple

This bush is in the patio by the pool, a very beautiful bush and as I do some research on it, it will turn green for the Summer and then a vibrant reddish/orangey color in the Fall.  I will make sure to take pictures of it as it changes color.

Sweet Violet
I still have them in the pots and need to find a spot for them.  I bought two pots and I believe they're supposed to bloom all Summer long.

Hubby opened the pool this past week.  He all of sudden had the itching to open it since we had a nice week of warm weather and sunshine.  

With this being our first Spring and first Summer here, I'm excited to see what plants and bushes are already here but I'm equally excited about doing our own planting and gardening and beautifying Spottswood Place. 

Happy Spring. . . . . Summer is just around the corner ~isavortheweekend