Vacation, Day 9, 10/29/2009, Part 2

It's starting to look like all we did was get ready to eat and then eat. Honest, we did other things. You'll soon see, I promise.


Milton brought lots of ingredients and spices to work with as he prepared more food for all of us. He even brought a blender!












Boston butt that will become pulled pork later in the week.


Ham for sandwiches later on in the week.


Pineapple and cherries for the ham.


Milton injecting the Boston butt prior to it's going into the smoker.


Ready to be covered and put into the smoker.


Injecting the ham with pineapple juice to enhance its flavor.


It's just about ready to be wrapped up.


In the smoker.


One more flavor used to enhance the ham--I think it's apple juice.


Splitting wood for the smoker.


There's the wood, ready to get heated up and impact the flavor of the two meats.


It's all going on inside now, for hours and hours.

Vacation, Day 9, 10/29/2009, Part 1

Sun's rising at Talladega Superspeedway, Thursday morning. You can see how many more rigs are in the campground, and there in the distance between the trees, you can see the grandstand at the racetrack.


Early morning look at another U-shaped spread at the campground. Halloween, college football rivalry, and Dale Earnhardt, Jr.--looking from right to left.


Part of a game of some sort at a corner camp site. Looks like they're all set to play, even after dark with that light on the top of the pole.


The other end of the game.


The game set-up, in front of a trailer decorated with three racetrack flags--Talladega, Bristol, Lowe's, and one driver flag--Dale Earnhardt, Jr.


This is the rig just to the other side of Kay and Milton's trailer. I count at least 17 chairs, for a smaller trailer and a pop-up trailer. Wild! Wonder if the ghosts glow in the dark?


Our omelet makers at work.


Sausage and ham on the griddle--one side's done.


Another helper deals with the bacon and the bacon presses on the other griddle.


Green peppers need quite a bit of preparation--those seeds are the pits!


You can have ham in your omelet.


Gotta get those eggs just right before they go into the skillet!


The bacon's done!


Cheese on the eggs in the skillet.


Ham, green pepper and onion, cooking in the other skillet.


Ah, the important combining-all-ingredients step.


Close to done, thanks to Milton and his helpers.


My plate--I had no cheese or green peppers because neither one agrees with me.


The absolute jewel in the crown of a grand breakfast, Steen’s 100% Pure Cane Syrup! Just looking at the bottle took me back to my childhood, eating biscuits and syrup with my Daddy. Yummy!


You can certainly see what I mean in this photo--perfection!