Yard Sales and BBQ

We've spent the last couple of weeks posting some of our larger items that we need to get rid of on Craig's list and continuing to get things ready for the yard sale. I posted 5 items two weeks ago and sold the fourth one yesterday. We sold our beloved kegerator, a couple of Dell desktop computers and a motorcycle windshield. I'm sure going to miss that kegerator. I guess I'll need to get busy soon and post some other things that need to go. This coming weekend is the Lakeland Pig Fest so I don't think I'll get much accomplished toward that goal  in the near future.

We went to the Tampa RV Supershow on Saturday, the 14th. That was a lot of fun. It was the first time we had attended this show and man was it huge. We arrived about 9:00 AM and didn't leave until almost 6:00 PM. We attended two seminars that were about an hour each. One was  "Basic RV Maintenance" and the other was "Extended and Fulltime RV Travel". The rest of the time we checked out the vendors and walked through a few motorhomes. You just can't see it all in one day. It was reported that a new record of over 54,000 attendees visited over the five public days of the show. We really enjoyed going and checking out all of the vendors. There were some vendors soliciting for workampers which is something we're interested in doing once we hit the road. It was nice talking to them and finding out about that part of the RV lifestyle.

"Lakeland Pig Fest" is the first BBQ competition of the year for KCBS. We've been every year for the last few years and enjoy it so much. We were judges in the professional division last year for this event but decided this year we just want to hang out, have fun, meet up with some of our buds that compete in this contest, and listen to some good tunes. The following weekend is "Smoke on the Water" in Winter Haven. This is an FBA competition and we'll be judging it, so we can't miss that one either. Three weeks after that is "Ribs on the Ridge" in Haines City and we've decided we'll compete in that contest. We haven't competed in 9 months and we really miss it. We competed in it last year and didn't do too bad. Maybe we can get something done in between all these BBQ events in the next few weeks. We'll try. We fired up the smoker this past weekend and had a test cook. We had 4 butts and 8 slabs of ribs on the smoker. Our friends really like it when we test.