From The Corner Of My Mind

* Saturday morning 9am and it's a quiet camp. W-spouse and I made our way to bed about 1am. I got up for a midnight snack around 3:30am and some of our group were still partying hard. I never turned a light on.
* Carl Edwards won the race last night and rightfully so. He had the car to beat without a doubt. Fast in the turns, faster on the straights. Very good on the short runs.
* The only other car that could have given him a run was Kyle Busch. He got wrecked out by another car that blew a tire as he was passing by and put him into the wall coming out of turn two. He went behind the wall and was never seen again.
* Overall, it was a boring slow race. Last nights race was what some of you call "Just going around in circles to the left". If it was your first race to attend, know this, they are all not that way.
* As you can see from the pictures posted yesterday, I had lots of food cooking on the grill. We had planned for an evening meal around 3pm. I put 16 half chickens, a 10 pound pork roast, and three whole beer can chickens on the grill at 10:30am yesterday morning. 3pm rolls around....chickens still not cooked.....4pm rolls around.....chickens still not ready.....at 5pm we finally just put them all in pans, turned the fire up on high and put it all in the warmer and left for the race. If the chicken wasn't cooked, I know the pork shoulder wasn't. We had put some sausage on the grill earlier and everyone nibbled on it before we left.
* I caught hell about that all night.
* Now I'm concerned about our thermometers. On Thursday one of our guys had built a fire in the pit and left the gas starter on and all of the thermometers had pegged out past their maximum which is 600 degrees. I'm wondering if the thermometers are registering wrong. Everything that we prepared on Wednesday was fine, yesterday it just didn't seem hot enough.
* I have briskets and pork chops to prepare today and don't want this fiasco to take place again.
* When we got back from the race last night, everyone tried the chicken then and said it was great. It should have been after cooking for 13 hours.
* W-spouse and I slept in longer than usual and even got a little quiet time. It was great just laying there snuggling and watching TV.
* Enjoy your Saturday, see ya Around The Corner!