T Stands for Pizza

 Hi everyone. Happy T Day again. 

I spent the end of last week and this past weekend down with a weird head cold. I say weird because I had a slightly stuffy nose (more runny than stuffy) and a slightly sore throat. All I really wanted to do was sleep. And since it was hot and humid, that's what I did . (Thank goodness for a screen porch and my hammock, but this wasn't how I planned to use it-smile.)  And yes it sounded a bit like covid, but I tested. It was just a cold, and luckily a quick passing one too. 👍

Over the July 4th weekend we had  a lot of rain and one day  the sun eventually came out for the whole afternoon. That was  the day "the guys" planned to rebuild the old and collapsing dock up at my mother-in-laws.

You can see the old dock in the above photo.

The 4 guys working on it were my husband (in the white and blue striped sun shirt in this next photo), my son-in-law (to the right of him), the niece's husband (standing in the water) and also the chef brother-in-law who didn't make it into these 2 photos but was there working. (That was his head in the above photo with the broken dock.)

My sister-in-law, my daughter, the niece and myself sat on the dock and supervised. 😉

This is as far as this piece of the dock was completed on that day, but this past weekend my husband was laying down the decking. You can also see Mr. Peter's head in this photo. The dogs actually liked the broken dock because they could walk in and then sit on it and get wet rather than having to swim which they need to do if they go down the stairs. 

And if you remember me mentioning how my mother-in-law was in rehab for a nasty fall, she is now newly moved into a Memory Care Assisted Living facility, which has been a lot of stress and worry for everyone, but especially my husband and one of his sisters. 

And since it's T day, here's my drink sitting all alone on the dock at the end of the day. This is my ticket this week for over T over at  Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog

And yes it's a plastic bottle of Diet Coke. I like these smaller plastic bottles because I can never drink a whole bottle in one day, and that way I don't get totally flat soda the next time I go to drink it. Earlier in the day I had some water  (in my big fillable jug) and also a can of hard cider but they never made it into a photo. I did recently have a bottle of Diet Coke  this size that said it was made from 100% recycled plastic, but finding them seems to be an exception more than a rule.

Now you might be wondering why I called this post T Stands for Pizza. After the dock building was completed for the day, my brother-in-law the chef was demonstrating his new wood-fired  pizza oven.

You can tell he cooks professionally because he made a whole lot of pizzas to bake. (Way more than was needed, that's for certain.)

You can see one finished pizza on the cutting board in this next photo and also my pizza which is yet to be cooked on the bottom of the photo. The deal was that we each brought our own pizza supplies, and he would bake the pizza. My hubby was the one who put together the pizza supplies, and his taste runs traditional, so you see onions, peppers, and pepperoni on mine.

And Miss Maddie knew where the best seat in the house was too. Mr. Pete is on the other side of the photo because he's pretty sly about food too. 

The chef still had the bugs to work out with his pizza oven as this was only the second time he used it. He was cooking the pizzas on a sheet  of aluminium foil. I can only speak for my pizza, but the crust was delicious and bubbly, but my bottom was still on the raw side by the time the crust was done. Perhaps the tin foil was the issue, not letting the bottom brown up? I never read the instructions and have never used one of these types of pizza ovens so I really don't know how to get the bottom to cook better. I  didn't eat the middle of my pizza so Miss Maddie and Mr. Pete both had a little treat.

That's all for me today. I have a busy week ahead again. At this rate the summer is going to fly by at the speed of sound. Have a great T day and week ahead.