The BBQ

The BBQ went well. We had about 25 people here according to Dody's count. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. We invited our new neighbor's Joey and Jackie over. Joey graduated with Ken and Jackie graduated with Jared. Jackie is real quiet and she was doing yardwork, so she didn't come over, but Joey is very sociable. He used to be a truckdriver, and he has a racecar and had a race on sunday, so after the race he came over. He's quite the redneck, but is nice. He's originally from Arkansas, loves to drink like a fish and tell jokes.

Last week, on Cleve's days off, Cleve had patched the hole in the tire on his tractor lawnmower, and needed to air it up, well, they both decided that using the can of carburator cleaner and a lighter would do the trick. Mind you, both had been drinking quite a bit before, so they used the aerosol can to fill the tire, and when Joey put the lighter up to it, the tire swelled up like they wanted, but the flame caught his hair on his hand and arm on fire, so he's swatting the flames and getting it out, if that's not a redneck neck thing, I don't know what is. I can only imagine what the rest of the summer is going to be like. Joey likes to sit by the firepit and drink and talk. His wife goes to bed and he says he can party all night, as he puts another log on the fire, and cracks open another beer, staggering the whole time.

We had Friends that Cleve works with at Home Depot over, Mark and Mindy and their three boys, Amber, Jaime, Ashlynn and Gabbo, Dad and Mary, Jared and Clint, Barb and Don and their three kids, Dody, Cody, Jasmine, Tori and Ken. We had pork riblets, about 20lbs, and they were slicked up pretty fast, along with potato salad, coleslaw and baked beans and veggie tray.
Lots of drinks, Mindy made a 5 gallon jug full of punch and I made 2 gallons of tea and 1 gallon of lemonade, besides the beer that different ones brought. Afterwards, we had a delisious cake, smores cake that Amber brought, and at dusk we started the firepit and roasted marshmallows.
Tori still hasn't had the baby, but still having the contractions, so maybe this week!!