First BBQ in 18 months.

        This weekend was the first time I have done BBQ since the Saturday after thanksgiving in 2016.  WoW that is hard to believe . I had 2 customers come to the house last week to ask if I would cook them a couple of butts each. I had been thinking about it old habits and I am a little bored . I had put my trailer and a sign up on Friday when I would be selling Saturday. Well I cooked a couple of cases of butts and a few slabs of ribs  hauled up to the HI way  and sold out in 3 hours . My customers all said they missed me. 

       Was nice to make a few hundred and the bad thing was I could have sold triple what I cooked. I told everyone I would be ready and have plenty come the 4th .

Sold my yellow stone camper

          Today I waved goodbye to the old trailer I got right before I started chemo. I had wanted to fix it up and use it but life got in the way. After I had recovered I considered repurposing it as a portable sandwich,  hotdog stand. It could have been cute but the wife and kids told me just sell it and keep my present vending trailer.  So I listed it on Facebook and Craig's list . Vintage trailer shell  7ft X12 no interior, early 50s Camp it or Yellowstone Mfg. Price 1000$

        

    I washed it and moved it out by the road, screwed down that back corner aired the tires made it presentable . I showed it to a dozen or more that seemed interested . I got lowball offers from 100$ to 500 . Even a used lawnmower trailer brings 6 to 800$ and is smaller.

    

       Today a young man drove from Cartersville Ga. I told him my bottom dollar was 800 or don't come it was 160 mile each way. Well he showed and we talked he wanted to do a restore to take his wife camping. They had Mud buggy Jeeps  and had been using a van but now had a baby and he wanted more room.

    This young man went over it top to bottom even took a ladder so he could see the roof. He didn't spew out ever flaw but I knew he saw them . One lady had bitched about everything she could find imperfect about it. To her I said  its a 48 model what year are you? She left a little mad. 

     The fellow got quiet and was thinking hard I could see him running  numbers and what it would take in his head. I gave him a few then asked, think you can fix it so the wife is happy.  He said yea he knew he could. Where you at on price son  he said 600$ I told him make it 700 we both can lie and say we got it for OUR PRICE . He said Deal, I feel good I believe it will get a second life with a young family.

    

The bombing of Boise city OK.

      Yesterday while reading  the western  Marshall Law it had a reference to this event . So I looked it up  here it is 

Bombing of Boise City in Oklahoma

      

Been reading a lot

       Over the last few weeks I have been reading more than normal. A lot of my recent reading has been westerns. Right now I am in the middle of a Modern western  I highly recommend  its even free right now.

Marshall Law

  It is a post apocalyptic  western of sort 

      I have also been reading a few by C.J. Petit  his are westerns but  didn't notice  while a top rated western writer his books are also tops in the romance categories but then looking back at my favorite westerns the good guy always did get the girl.  Romance or western I like his writing style and story lines.

a lite weight cast iron pot ?

           I love my cast iron skillets and pots but they are heavy. Since my surgery I have had trouble with my left wrist because of the skin graft and nerves that they removed . Some cast iron demands 2 hands to handle. I have mostly Lodge  but a few Griswold and Wagner pieces . I  always keep a 12 inch lodge skillet on the stove .     Remove It and DIE !!!!!    Why, because it hurts my wrist to dig it out of the cabinet. I use it Everyday its my tater and egg skillet .  I also have a lodge 3.2 quart fryer with a skillet lid combo that I rarely use now . My son asked if he could "borrow it"
You know kid code for if you say yes kiss ever  seeing it again  goodbye.  Lodge 
                                                           I was willing to get him his own pot and skillet and found this  at Wal-Mart  In there Ozark trail line .Ozark trail 3.2 combo

          

    It is only a 1/3 as heavy as the lodge but it looks well made and was only 11 $ . So far I have just cooked bacon in the skillet  I think I like it. Time will tell how it holds up and cakes up a good seasoning layer. I may get these down the road . cast iron is a true multi generational item. 

                               2 quart

12 inch

8 inch

The old old school kind of Rap

      Rap is nothing new its just a way to tell a story you want someone to remember. 

    
  A lot of modern Rap songs are controversial because they glorifies Vises and Immoral  acts. 

     

  
    Some Rap sheds light on the mysteries of life 

Were home But our camper is still camping.

     We left last Sunday early to go camping I planed on staying 8 to 10 days. When we go to the gulf we stop at Atmore Al. there is an Indian  Casino we play at for a few hours each trip. I normaly set aside 200$ for us to play on 100 for her and 100 for me. Me and the wife have the normal split, I cover all loses and she pocket all winnings. This trip we lost 40$ and enjoyed 4 hours of gambling . While gambling over the years between me and her we are at even or maybe slightly ahead. Its just entertainment now my days of earning a living off gambling are past. 

      The trip to this point had gone smooth but the last 10 miles to Atmore I thought I felt a slight slip in the transmission. When we left the casino I defiantly could tell it was over revving before shifting gears. So the last 90 miles I babied it to the campground . 

     

         Once at the campground I tried to get a site for 8 nites so we could leave Monday the 7th . Nope nothing available we got one site till Wednesday and I snagged another site for one more night, but the weekend was booked solid. This is shoulder season and the campground was packed. I expect this in June and July and maybe the first week of august not April ,May. Other campers there was playing switch every day because they did like me and just popped in. We could have moved to gulf state park on the Alabama side for the weekend but this trip seemed doomed from the start.

          I let my wife stock the pantry before we left. while I was sick we had striped the camper of food.  I assumed she put in what we normally ate . I put a few cans of stuff I like in a bag, Hash, tamales, chicken and dumplings, beef stew.  After we set camp we went to Public's grocery they have good fried chicken . Well I asked if we needed anything to round out the steaks and chops and Burgers I had in the fridge. NO lets go ! My wife has been impatient a lot lately and rushing when we got nothing to rush to. This pissed me off when we got back to the camper I wanted creamed potatoes . No instant  ok   no milk  ok what had she brought veg all cream corn and can potatoes and nothing else. 

      Now I was realy pissed all she wanted to do was get back and scroll face book . I  spent the next 4 days being a quiet polite asshole determined to make the trip as miserable as I could because all she wanted was to scroll face book pages and play games. 

      Tuesday I found a mini storage lot that had a spot for the camper . 43$ a month, I think I will leave it for the summer and look at my truck situation . The Dodge did great ,returning home without the trailer but if it cant haul its just a BIG 2 seater car.