October 7 2006

Well gang, there’s good news this week. We have signed up a full compliment of twenty-five cooking teams for the annual benefit to be held at the West Alabama Icehouse on Saturday October 21st.

We can’t take on anymore cooks. And from reports that we have been getting, we might need a few more.

Members of the Montrose Beer and Gun Club know only too well the perils that attend the practice of drinking beer and shooting guns.

But since we only have a cooking competition once a year, most members have a tendency to forget that drinking beer and preparing food can get, to coin a phrase, a little dicey also Consequently, reports are starting to come in relating to burned, scalded and even completely missing portions of several cook’s anatomy.

Apparently, competitive cooking is not for the faint of heart.

Some have suggested that there be a special prize for someone who comes up with a piece of body human body part in a sample of food at the gathering. But they were shouted down by the more civilized members of the club, who claimed that we had a certain image to maintain, and that people might get the wrong idea.

As usual, five bands have been lined up. One of them, as a special treat, has added a contortionist fiddle player.

You don’t see contortionist fiddle players around much anymore, and we can consider ourselves lucky this year.

To old-timers, it will bring back memories of the last great contortionist mummers band from Philadelphia Pa…Those were the days.

But we digress.

Be sure to rummage around the house, attic and garage for things to donate to the silent auction. The auction is where we really make the money, and you know darn well that the kids can use it.

Come to think of it, we haven’t had a stuffed moose head at the auction in quite a while.

See you at the event gang.

Cook carefully.

Till next week
Helga Biermeister
Secretary