Well Saturday morning was spent getting ready for our 10 guests who came for a supper of smoked ribs and beer in the rear chicken. The weather was perfect with temps staying in the middle 60's for most of the day after a chilly start and there were periods of sunshine and clouds despite the threat of rain. We had a moment just before I was to start the smoker when Nancy opened one of the pack of ribs which caused us some concern and trip back to town for more meat. I will digress later in this ramble an explain what that was all about.
We slept in until nearly 7 AM for a change after putting an extra quilt on the bed during the night. That added warmth messed up my alarm clock and allowed me sleep in, wow was that ever nice. Luckily we had closed most of the windows the night before as we can feel a taste of Fall in the air as it was down into the low 50's over night. Just perfect weather right now and maybe another sign the Almanac is right in predicting a cold snowy winter this year for this area.
We did our usual morning routines with our few quiet moments, a lite breakfast then the posting of the day before's activities in this ramble before I headed down to gathering a bucket of apple, plum and hickory wood for the smoker. I wanted to get the meat on by at least noon for the 6 o'clock feed so around 11'ish we opened the ribs and one of them smelled funky. We called the grocery store in Sparta which is about a 20 mile or so round trip from the cabin and off I went with the funky sack of ribs. Well they had another one waiting for me but I insisted they open this one and smell it. Well every pack they had in the store was funky so the meat manager substituted country style ribs in the place of the baby backs. I got back a little before noon and got the smoker going loaded down with ribs and birds.
We cleaned house and then settled into the Little league World Series the rest of the afternoon and watched two good games while smelling the wood smoke. Wow was that ever a great smell. The birds fell apart when I took them off the smoker as did the ribs. I could have pulled them apart as they were that tender and oh what a flavor. We had Karin's mom Betty and her step dad Randall here for the first time and we always enjoy sharing our place and its uniqueness. Gerald, Kay and Mechelle came as well as Karin and Frank and Karin daughter Katelyn and beau Curtis who is stilling for a slot with the sheriff's dept. We had a grand time of eating and then afterwards showing them around the cabin and yards.
We had baked beans, garden grown smashed taters, mac and cheese, green bean casserole, broccoli salad, sliced garden grown tomatoes and two old fashion recipe butterscotch pies for dessert to accompany the ribs and chicken. Needless to say the ribs were devoured and enough bird leftover to top a salad for tomorrow. There was a lot of groaning about overeating at the game table late in the evening.
We cleared off the tables and got into a gal vs guys game of Sequence and the guys prevailed again with another win. A couple folks had never played the game and then someone mentioned domino's and the "Mexican train" so we showed them "chickenfoot" dominoes and they were really tickled with that version. We played 5 or 6 rounds and really never kept score but it was a fun time; loud and raucous as well. It was going on 10'ish when they all left and we will meet a couple of them for lunch in Sparta after church tomorrow. What a grand time of fellowship. We won't see a couple of them again this season as Betty and Randall will be traveling in their motor home.
Well after the dish washing and putting the cabin back in order it was shower time and then a few chapter in a new DeMille book before the sandman calleth, LATER
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