A Little Update!

Well Halloween has come and gone. I guess we will need to start on the turkeys and all the trimmings next. I am going to work up a complete menu from start to finish. But that is to come later. I am going to talk about the past for a while.

I had one of the best weeks of my life last week. As you know I have been working on my new cooker for months. Well it is finally finished, and I was able to use it. Then, I found out how much help I was going to need, which is hard to find, at least help that is dependable. When we start, the competitions are all over the country, from Texas to Kansas, Kentucky to Virginia, Vermont to North Carolina, South Carolina to Florida, Georgia to Mississippi, and then back to Tennessee. These are 5 or 6 day trips and my people can’t get off that much. So I am taking up JUDGING.

This past week I went to a training session for the MEMPHIS BAR-B-Q NETWORK in Bolivar, TN on Friday, Oct 31st, and judged the cook off on Saturday, November 1st, which I really enjoyed doing. To say nothing that it was my 80th birthday.

After the cook off Betty and I went on down to Memphis, and stayed with my brother and sister-in-law for a couple of days. I had three first cousins to come and visit. Boy did we swap some tall tails! But the thing that bothered me was that they were from 1 ½ to 3 years older than I am, and all of them had a hard time walking. I am really blessed and plan on staying active. I had a lady ask if I thought that Bar-B-Q was healthy with all that grease in it. I tried to explain to her that if you cook a pork shoulder right, you will render all the grease out of it, not to mention it takes 18 hours to do. She said that there was nothing that was worth cooking for 18 hours. I told her that I started Bar-B-Q’ing when I was 14 and had been eating it and working ever since. She said you are lucky and walked off. I could not help but think, not lucky but BLESSED! This is enough history, so I will stop and get to work on our Thanksgiving special.

Thanks May GOD Bless You and Yours

Dave