Johnnie:
That food feeds what -- 5 or 6 of youse guys? Maybe just the immediate family? Sounds good, but kinda of sparse - if you know what I mean.
Well it's 10:30 AM and folks will be showing up for Dinner in a hour and a half or two. The meat is ready to come off the pit, but for now it's just polishing up with smoke.
We BBQ 2 times a year, Thanksgiving is the smaller of the 2, mostly family, others bring their meat over for cooking and then come by to pick it up for their own family Dinner. Then we BBQ for the 4th of July, That's the big one where family and friends and some folks I don't even know come by for the food, drinks, fireworks, party ...... mainly just a lot of fun. The 4th starts early on the 3rd and usually is well into the 5th before it's all said and done.
Way I see it, there's no point in living in a free country if you don't exercise a little of that freedom from time to time.
This is the day when We give thanks to God, Family, our service men and women, and all the patriotic folks, past and present, that makes this country so great.
Rouse