Jul 04 2015
It was a nice day for the 4th; as a rule it
always seems to rain here. It looks like nice weather through the week-end. We
always like to go to the local St. Joseph annual picnic and haven’t missed many
over 40 years. We like the greasy fair fries with malt vinegar and salt and
some whole hog sausage patties done on a flat iron grill. I get a double with
cheese, mustard and onion. My wife has to have a lemonade shake up. So we have
to stop at the lemonade stand, then the French fry stand and end up at the
sausage barn to eat it all.
When the kids were young we stayed the evening to see the
fireworks at 11:00. My wife always played bingo with the kids until they were
old enough to run around. I played show down poker and drank some cold beer. Years
ago they had bottled beer iced down in water troughs and you could walk around
with it. Then it got too big and some would get rowdy so now you have to go to
a fenced in beer tent to do any drinking.
My wife went with the kids and grandson at 5:30. I didn’t
think I could take all the walking so I stayed home with the dog and had our own
picnic. I had two ears of corn left from last night so I cut the kernels off
and fried it in some butter; and had added onions, peppers and bacon crumbs.
I heated the Weber Spirit on medium to grill the old
fashioned bung bologna. As soon as the grill was hot I fried the corn in my
Lodge CS skillet on my Camp Chef Pro 30 burner. When the corn was getting done
I did the bologna for about 4 minutes per side and put the bun on to toast
some.
I had a slice of Vidalia onion and mustard on my sandwich,
the corn tasted good and I had a Tennessee tomato sliced with salt and pepper.
The dog got 3 small bites of the bologna and was happy too!
The tomatoes are from a veggie stand that the guy drives
down and brings in. They are a few weeks earlier than our garden tomatoes here
and almost as good.
Last night the fireworks started, there were some neighbors
setting off big ones. They sounded like a cannon going off. I expect to hear
more later on tonight. A Dalmatian I had was scared to death of the noise but
my cock-a-poo does not pay any attention to them.
Frying the corn
Bologna on the grill
My picnic
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