Well I think it was another great hang in the NC trees ya'll. KingsFord and I pulled in to the campsite Wednesday around 2:30pm and began setting up our palace in the woods. We were joined by Inspectorguy and his lovely bride before too long, then a few more hangers began to arrive. Old4hats and Georgia girl, Captain Morgan, Comet_seeker all got their set ups hung and we gathered for some food. A new hanger to us, Ofemur came out and relaxed with us as well. We had typical summer weather, so we didn't need a fire. Thursday we were up making some breakfast and planning a day of meeting more folks and gathering more supplies for the meals. KingsFord tried the smoker, and made some nice pork loins, though it took longer than planned. We all got to enjoy them. By Friday morning we were starting to get a crowd. Unfortunately Junebugdawn was still fighting her respiratory bug and had to head out to cooler air at a hotel during the night. Earlier in the day a large branch (with green leaves) suddenly snapped off and fell right beside Patman's set up. One of the branches lightly brushed his tarp. Friday morning Junebug decided she needed more recoop time in some cooler air for her to feel up to par, so her and Patman left us to head back to SC. Friday we had lots of folks join us to wander through the trees to find nice spots for hammocks. Old4hats, Squidbilly and KingsFord and myself already had our Squidbilly-Hammeck palaces set up. Friday night was relaxing with kids playing in warm summer air. Grannypat playing with the fire (thanks for the firewood Tacoma) and all of us happy campers full and enjoying strawberry shortcake and cobbler. Saturday arrived and the last of our campers arrived, as well as some day guests. Mike Lyle arrived before breakfast, and was able to join us. Kyle with Ripstopbytheroll arrived in the afternoon with a big box of free material, and lots of folks got something for DIY projects. We had some wonderful BBQ for dinner.Drew names for the door prizes, packed up the kitchen, cause it was supposed to rain in the AM, and set around the campfire til bedtime. I want to thank all those who helped us out with any little or big task. Ya'll are why we do this, cause ya'll treat us so well. Thank you JDK and Stubby for the pork you did. Thanks DRlupton for bringing it. And thanks JDK for making the swineapple (and thanks Sheri for helping too). Thank you TheloveDR for all your help with the packing. And thank everyone for helping pack up after dinner. WE really enjoyed hanging with you, and cooking for you. I want to mention that Sheri (maybe not spelled right) cooked the mountainman breakfast and frenchtoast pudding, as well as cornbread, grilled chicken, ribs and chili. And also Phantomgrappler supplied all the sandwich makings for the land, air and sea sandwiches. We certainly appreciated that Phantomgrappler. I also wanted to let everyone know, after we got home and counted up all the donations ya'll gave us for the food and site (some I didn't know KingsFord had put up) We came out pretty much at our expense cost. Thank ya'll for that. As I told quite a few of you, this is the last year we will host the Smoke Butt, so we hope someone else takes up the baton. We've enjoyed doing it the past 2 years, and we will attend future ones.
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