Swine- I am so sorry that you lost your friend. It leaves an emptiness that will always be there - even it's just a little bit.
Experience tells me that if you cook a comp and leave without making friends with at least one team, something is wrong.
We're small time competitors, and we've taken home medals or ribbons from just about every comp we've cooked.
But they don't mean jack squat compared to the friends I have made through this sport of BBQ. When I choose to no longer compete, the ribbons tatter and fade, and our successes forgotten by all but me, I will still have those friendships and memories to cherish. This is what matters.
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Clark
My Boys: Joseph (EI); Andrew (EE); Daniel (EE)
My Toys: 10 WSMs (B, C, E, DH, DA, EZ, DZ, EO, DU, DR); 5 - 22.5" Bar-B-Q-Kettles; 2 - 18.5" Bar-B-Q-Kettle; 4 WGAs (EZ, DE, N, B); 2 SJPs ( DR, DR); 2 Smokey Joes (A, K); Brinkman Cimmaron.
"For when democracy becomes tyranny, those of us with rifles still get to vote"
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