Taquitos and a nice stout later for dessert.

blueberries, chips, and smores for dessert.

One scout thing that needs to be done......kids need to learn how to kill, skin, dress, and BBQ a whole hog and/or chicken for large gatherings. If I ran the show I'd have the scouts construct a BBQ pit. Find some hickory wood if available. Get some coals going, and cook a whole hog, or two, and have a pig picking. Maybe chicken. None of this bring a big cooker and cook a bunch of Sam's hamburgers and processed hot dogs. Nope.

Dig a hole, put up some concrete blocks. Lay a metal grate, cover with non-pressure treated plywood. Cut your own firewood. Make fire, feed coals, monitor hog. Slather copious amounts of red pepper vinegar-based BBQ sauce. Remove pig(s), dig in.

Maybe have some scout build a nice permanent BBQ pit for his(her now) Eagle project.

As it stands, we get a gas cooker, Sam's burgers, and the kids build a camp fire, and prepare food in a kitchen. Adults cook the food. Heck, I remember HIGH SCHOOL parties in the woods (swamp) with a whole pig picking. And the pig was killed, skinned, and prepped by "kids". They didn't borrow their daddy's gas cooker either. They built a pit. Cut the wood. Killed the hog. Skinned and gutted it, cooked it, made the sauce, and we ate like kings. And drank like the court jester. Just leave off the 4 kegs of beer and the cooler of PJ and it would be perfect for scouts.

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And his share of fish. Don't think they do hunting in scouts, so I'd probably have to leave that off. Still, buy the hog from the butcher. Otherwise, build a pit and cook it.

Of course then they'd be sued by some Muslim scout and they'd go broker. So I guess that's why I'm not in charge. Still a lot of fun, but their level of woods skills could be improved.

Example, the land owner was awesome enough to push up a bunch of fat lighter stumps on the property. Like a TON, several, literally. So starting a fire was no problem. BUT, the boy scouts (that's high school/middle) tried to chop the fat lighter stumps in log-length pieces with a hatchet. A group of four of them took turns. First with a hatchet, then finally with an axe. It was painful to watch. Chopping perpendicular, and straight down, perpendicular with the grain of the wood, ostensibly to cut logs for the fire. You ever try that with fat lighter? It's nearly impossible. But 4 boy scouts managed to cut it in half making two logs, after an hour of sweat. I then told them to use the axe to cut VERTICAL on the log, WITH the grain of the wood, and you will get long pieces that splinter off that you can peel off (and they will burn better).

Boy scout leader did not take kindly to my recommendation so I let it be. Instead, he showed them the proper (safe) way to swing the axe to spend an hour cutting sideways through a piece of fat lighter. Even then, he never told then to cut at angles to make a wedge then rotate the log around. So they chopped straight down each time. Painful to watch.

And the best way to swing an axe is actually not the way they show, because it's less safe. I didn't even show them that. If I were attacking that stump I'd start off with a 10-12 lb maul and split it in half lengthwise, then quarters, etc. Then with an axe, cut the smaller pieces in half to get a log-length piece of fat lighter. As it was, they managed to get 10-foot high flames from a standard lowe's fire pit, with all the fat lighter they managed to cut. Then after putting out a fire on the ground because of improper site prep, we had to wait for the fire to burn down for the smores. Ideally you use the fat lighter to dry then burn split green hardwood, or in this case there was plenty of hardwood on the ground they could have used to get proper coals for smores.

But they were very skilled in smores cooking. Experts. They had tables set up, smores sticks, yuge marshmallows, graham crackers and hershey bars. It was an assembly line and most impressive. Adults each had one after the kids were full.

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hey grandpaw, what's for supper?

Shrimp, sausage, peppers, tomato’s, onions

Cooked all week for a crowd while on vacation.

Probably not much

in laws were here - steak and salmon, tater salad, salad

dang fine meal there.

Re: hey grandpaw, what's for supper?

here's hoping.***

Will be mango/habanero wings. ******

Had Anchor Bar today.

had one o my fav Porters last night at the brewery.

It will be this and i think it might be good.

Never got to it, in fact I haven't had a beer all weekend.

What I've had for about 5 weeks in a row on Sattidy

this is what has kept me from doing this on Sunday nite.

Hamburgers, hot dogs, pork n beans, strawberries,

The only things kids are killing these days are...

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Dawgs. Lotsa dawgs.

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