BOLD 6 LQPV 1 FINAL
CONSERVATION CONVERSATION SHOW
Michelle Overholzer from LQPSWCD Office visits with Maynard about buffers and deadlines
RAYMO’S RAMBLINGS – GRILL THAT MEAT!
Grill that Meat!
Memorial weekend is usually when the grilling season kicks off, and I really enjoy grilling. Almost too much, If you know me I love to eat. Nothing fancy, I don’t have a fancy grill nor do I want one, it’s a simple gas grill, or do I have a large patio to put my grill on and my food choice to grill is simple, such as hamburgers, hot dogs, brats, steak and chicken.
My time to relax at home is to go outside on our small patio, and throw some steaks on the grill and sit around our patio furniture and listen to my music on my cell phone. That’s my down time and how I get away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.
My son Jeremy who is an excellent griller, taught me to put the flame as low as possible and cook the meat as slow as you can, my brother in law Larry suggested not turning your meat that is on the grill till the very end. Two suggestions I use today and has made a big difference in the finished product. My dream is to be like those Hibachi guys that grill your food in those restaurants, or the Mongolian grill guys, they are pretty fun to watch. Master grillers, fun when they chop up the food in front of you and throw it in your mouth, I should try that on my patio while grilling.
My favorite thing to grill is a good steak, doesn’t matter what kind, I like my steak well done, with lots of lemon pepper on it. I use lemon pepper on just about all the meat that I grill. Lemon pepper on a chicken breast is amazing. And a close second favorite is a good bratwurst with lots and lots of sauerkraut! Ketchup on everything, I do not use steak sauce on my steak very often, I prefer ketchup. Ketchup and mustard on hot dogs and brats. Ranch dressing on grilled chicken breasts and I have my daughter Brianna to thank for that ranch dressing thing.
I find it funny how different people are in how they want their meat done on the grill, especially steak, for instance my son Brandon likes his prime rib very rare, blood red rare, I think I heard it moo once, gross! My mother in law loved her hamburger on the grill to be almost burnt to a crisp, charcoal black, gross! I just find it interesting people like it rare and some people like meat very well done.
Grilling has become a huge business in the last few years, with many different kinds of grills being sold, and the development of large outdoor patio’s being built at homes as well. I have friends that have certain kinds of grills and they all say they have the best grill ever. But I stand by my small gas grill, it gets the job done.
So this Memorial weekend, I will be grilling a number of times, as a matter of fact I’m thinking Friday, Saturday and Sunday! Let the grilling season begin!
RAYMO’S RAMBLINGS-INTELLIGENT TEENAGERS VS ME
Interview on Q92 with the LQPV Robotic Team
Well I’m a 59-year-old middle aged man, and I like to think of myself as having average intelligence, I’m not the smartest or even close to that, but yet I can add two plus two without any problem and think the light bulb burns bright at times.
The last few years I have spent some time interviewing the LQPV Robotics Team before they head out for the state robotic competition in the cities. And after visiting with them and listening to them use words I’ve never heard of, talking about a programmable logical controller, or an actuator, a magnetic detector, modules, transducer, or a degree of freedom and drop delivery terms, my head is spinning and I have no idea what they are talking about. And you can tell listening to the interview I don’t know what I’m talking about during the whole interview I did with them this past week.
You know I’ve interviewed Senator Amy Klobuchar a couple of times and sounded like I knew what was happening in Washington when interviewing her and I’ve talked to the President of the Cattlemen’s Association in Minnesota, knowing nothing about cattle or farming for that matter and can usually fake my way through those interviews and sound somewhat intelligent asking questions.
But the robotic team is another story, I can’t fake my way through that interview. My stupidity comes out loud and clear with them.
I look down at the roster of names and grades of these very intelligent and future engineers I’m sure, they are in 9th, 10th, and 11th grade! Boys and girls, from all different backgrounds. I just shake my head when talking to them at their intelligence, so proud of all of them.
I was a C and D student in high school, all I cared about was sports and girls in high school, I don’t think I ever took a book home to study. How sad as I just typed that. At Alex Tech and Community College things changed for me, I was very interested in what I was studying and I cared, so I pulled off straight A’s in college. See I do have intelligence and I even was voted Outstanding Student at graduation.
So when I see young kids in high school doing so well in the classroom and doing so good at something they love to do, like building a very complicated robot, whom they named Murphy by the way, it makes me smile and I feel good about the world.
These robotic students are very smart and very impressive teenagers. So the next time I spend some time with them and interview them maybe I won’t be so hard on myself and think I’m an old 59-year-old guy that doesn’t know squat about robotics, I’m sure they will take some time to educate me about what they are doing.
I should have bragged about myself and told all of them “hey I bet you didn’t know I pulled straight A’s in college”