The Laughing Wolf

What A Good Weekend

My weekend actually started on Thursday with a day of cooking over at my cousin’s house. Let’s just say that my next two entries in Carnival of the Recipes will feature chicken since I cooked three at once, along with several batches of almond shortbread, scotch eggs, and much more.

Friday saw my cousin Mr. C and myself up around 0500 to begin set-up for the Stone Mountain Highland Games. Some problems meant that instead of leaving to go up to Helen and the Georgia Bloggerfest at 11 am, I did not get on the road until 4 pm. I managed to make it up by 6 pm, and had a wonderful time meeting those there. The all too brief meeting was highlighted by a fun rendition of the Loch Tay Boat Song by Eric the Straight White Guy accompanied by Jim from Parkway Rest Stop who flew down from New Jersey to visit. After about 30 minutes, I had to jump back in Pups and drive back to Stone Mountain for some final preparations and some rest.

Saturday and Sunday were the games, and most of my time was spent at the tent dealing with either the diner

or helping people up front find out information on their heritage. Yes, that is more than two tents worth of food, and we do live up to our nickname The Donnachaidh Diner and I can tell you that the chaffing dishes are real and five were used to hold the shrimp primavera, Cajun shrimp scampi, meatballs in garlic pesto alfredo sauce, BBQ, and other delights. I failed to duck fast enough at the business meeting and found myself made regional commissioner for vice (that’s my story and I hope to stick to it) with my lone nay vote overridden by everyone else there voting yea. Both days involved early rising, lots of work before sunup, and Sunday concluded with tearing it all down and leaving. Lots to catch up on today, so posting will probably be lite.

LW