Squealin' on the Square
Annual BBQ Festival and Competition
October 2nd, 2010
Laurens, SC

My buddies Steve and Jeff took their Piglet Enemy BBQ team down to Laurens, SC to enter in the annual Squealin' on the Square BBQ Competition.  Also joining them was my buddy Ron!

The Piglet Enemy BBQ Team

L to R:  Steve, Ron, Jeff

Even though it is only 35 minutes from my house, I have never been to Laurens, SC before.  Joining me was my father-in-law Chris who found himself right at home in downtown Laurens.

My father-in-law Chris at The Redneck Shop 

There was a lot more than just BBQ going on at Squealing on the Square!

There was an Antique Car Show:

An Antique Tractor Show:

Some Live Entertainment:

The Antique Tractor Parade:

And the worlds largest Pinball Machine:

But now, lets return to the BBQ

There are (4) categories in the competition:
1.  Chicken
2.  Ribs
3.  Pork Butt or Shoulder
4.  Brisket

Steve pulling off the Ribs

Ribs contest submission

Jeff prepping the pulled pork butt

The Brisket contest submission

Chris and I filled our tummies sampling some of the leftovers.  My favorites were the ribs and the pulled pork butt!  Since I wanted to get home in time for the 3:30 VT Hokie game, we left before finding out the results.

It was a beautiful day!  Chris really enjoyed himself and got some good ideas for the home-make smoker that he is working on.  And the day got even better as my Hokies got the victory with a come from behind 41-30 win!
 

Daddy Long Legs

I noticed a bunch of these guys hanging out under the eaves of my house.  I thought, that is interesting enough to be my photo of the day:

Daddy Long Legs!

I wonder, is this how baby Daddy Long Legs are made?

Post Card

Post

Card

These are the two words in this weeks 2 things challenge.

2 Things Challenge Rules:
Interpret the 2 weekly subjects any way you wish, in a photograph, collage, painting, poem, song, or whatever you can dream up and post on your blog. When done, leave a comment here to let us know.

This might not be my most creative 2 things submission, but it definitely fits.

A playing card on top a fence post!

Getting Ready for some BBQ

Squealin on the Square starts tomorrow.  This is an annual Barbeque festival and competition in downtown Laurens, SC.  

My buddies Jeff and Steve of the Piglet Enemy BBQ team will be entering the competition.  Steve sent me this photo.  It looks like they are ready!  Time to roll on down to Laurens and fire up the smokers! 

Photo by Piglet Enemy

Rain Guage

As I mentioned yesterday, we finally got some much needed rain!  I checked the rain guage this afternoon and saw we ended up with a little over 2 inches!

The best part about it was that it was not one of those intense storms that dumps boatloads of rain in a short periord of time.  It was about 36 hours of mostly light, but steady rain that really gets a chance to soak into the parched earth. 

Rain Out

I woke up this morning to the sounds of a light rain.  It was a delightful sound considering it has been six weeks since our last drop of rain!

I checked the radar and quickly decided to scrap any hiking plans I had today.  However, I did see what looked to be a short window of opportunity before the heaver stuff moved into our area.  So I grabbed my camera gear and drove on down to Hatcher Garden here in Spartanburg, SC. 

I was there about 10 minutes before the sky opened up and a torrential downfall caused me to retreat to my vehicle.  But not before I was able to snap this series of shots.

Raindrops on a Spiderwort Bloom

Not sure what type of flower this is

Rain Drop Macro

Saturday Morning Project!

Our driveway slopes downhill from the road causing a small lake to be formed at the end of our driveway after a good rain. To remedy this problem, we had a drain installed. This worked great, except along with all the rainwater, a lot of debris also gets washed down the drive. After a while, the drain gets clogged up with Debris and the lake forms again.


This hasn't been a problem lately since it hasn't rained in weeks, but we still wanted to address the problem for when the rain eventually comes back. So we moved the drain about a foot away from the end of the drive and surrounded it with rocks. Hopefully, this will still allow the water to flow to the drain, but the rocks will filter out all the debris from clogging the drain. We will see if this works!