I'm pleased to report that we made it back to Knoxtown on Sunday after an uneventful 8 hour ride.
Now after drinks & dinner and sorting out the mail, I figured that I'd post some stuff here showing everyone what we've been up to the past five days.
Here's a view of the pile of raw materials after being dumped out on the ground at the Event Venue about 6:30 AM Saturday morning (click on any of the photos to enlarge).
And here we are with the tent set up, all of the food delivered, and the "Chili Shack" erection well under way.
All the roof framing up, and just a few more skins to install...that's EIGHT GALLONS of rendered pork stock there on the table in the big plastic containers.
The finished product, with decorations in place ready to serve our Chili...
There's Little Missy the Turbo Pup standing guard duty back behind the tent.
General crowd pictures...as you see the place was PACKED...and they started clammoring to be fed at 11 AM although the official start time and first judging sample wasn't supposed to happen until 11:30...
My 15 gallon chili pot somewhere about 12:15...we were in panic mode because we were supposed to serve until 2 PM but we ran out at 1:15...
The Turbo Pup again, sitting in the shade, looking for someone to give a good barking to...
A look behind the scenes at the cooking area and tent...notice the blue insulation board lables on the back side of the panels...
More crowd photos looking from inside the serving area in our Chili Shack. We were only one of three teams that actually did something besides tents and tables with banners/signs...
The unofficial estimate was a little over 2000 tickets sold.
Pat and John and our friend Walt yucking it up and handing out Green Butt Chili...
And the end of the day about 4 PM with everything loaded back in and on John's Explorer ready to head back to the Blackwater Grill...
And here's a look at the Guys and the Booth that beat us again this year...
Go figure...
1 comment:
It's clear to me that the judges are in the tank for those other guys. You clearly had the best booth, hands down. Local people, local judges.
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