A BUNCH OF BBQ BEEF

I've fixed this BBQ Beef for more celebrations than I wish to count over the last 40-plus years.  The last time was this past weekend for my mother-in-law's 100th birthday family get together.

OVEN BBQ BEEF

1 beef rump roast (4 lbs.)

1 tablespoon liquid smoke

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

Garlic salt, onion salt, and celery salt to taste

1 cup BBQ sauce of your choice

Place meat on heavy-duty foil in 9"x12" pan.  Pierce meat.  Sprinkle with liquid smoke, Worcestershire, and salts.  Bring up foil and seal.  Refrigerate and marinate 24 hours.  Place in 300 degree oven for 5 hours.  Pour BBQ sauce on.  Close foil and bake another 2 hours.  Slice meat thin against the grain.  Put liquid in a separate container and refrigerate all over night.  Skim solidified fat from liquid.  Pour sauce as needed over meat to keep it moist as it heats up either in the oven or the crock pot.  Serve on a bun with extra of your favorite BBQ sauce.

(Allow 1/3 pound for a generous serving.  For this occasion I fixed 20 pounds of meat adjusting the other ingredients accordingly.  Twenty pounds fills two large crock pots.)

We had a great celebration of Bob's mother's birthday. First a dinner and reunion in my sister-in-law and her husband's beautiful yard.  It was nice for the three remaining siblings to reunite.

Lots of nieces and nephews, grand kids, other family members and more food than we all needed!

Then we had a public reception at her assisted care facility with cake and punch.

"A good time was had by all!"

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PHOTO BOARD FOR A SPECIAL BIRTHDAY

If you are a photo junkie like me, you enjoy seeing photo boards at different events such as weddings, birthdays, graduations, reunions, and, yes, even funerals.  Photo boards have been replaced recently by power-point presentations; but I still enjoy seeing the pictures up close and personal on a display board.

My favorites are the wedding ones where the bride's growing-up pictures are on one side and the groom's on the other side with pictures of their life together since meeting shown down the middle.  I also enjoy graduation photo boards showing their school pictures K-12 and college.  How fun to see how they have changed and matured over the years.  Funeral photo boards are often in celebration of a life well-lived - a great tribute!

This weekend we are celebrating Bob's Mother's 100th birthday with a family reunion/dinner and a public community reception.  

One of my responsibilities was to do a photo board of her life.  I had previously done several books of photos for her as gifts, so accumulating the pictures for this project was fairly easy this time around.  

The hard part was picking just a few of the pictures.  My scrap booking skills are fundamental; I don't do a lot of embellishments (mainly because of the expense involved) -- just letting the pictures and celebrant be the star of the show.

I tried to pick a variety of pictures of her 

 with her kids, grandkids, great-grandkids and other family members.

She was one of eight children; extended family has always been important in her life.

Her two younger brothers, along with other family members and friends, will be attending the celebration.

Happy 100th (and counting) birthday to my favorite Mother-in-law!

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