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| Double Webers and a 1950 Cessna 140A. |
The message went out over the Pond Branch Telegraph. The Tree Top Flyers from EAA Chapter 1467 were gathering at Pond Branch Airfield Sunday afternoon. The Jellystoners were invited to attend. "Falling off the Bone" baby back ribs were advertised!
Never one to turn down baby back ribs, I notified the Assistant Head Chef at the Pond Branch Sky Kitchen that I would provide a couple bottles of JP's All Natural Barbecue Sauce, from the Ole Smokehouse Restaurant in Charlotte, North Carolina. Back in the day there were two Ole Smokehouse restaurants. The original, close to Ma and Pa Cottom's Stokes Avenue Ranch, and a second location out by the airport that happily delivered to hungry line boys. Both are now closed, but JP's sauce is still available in local grocery stores. In our neck of the woods a good bottle of barbecue sauce is better than a $100 bottle of fancy French wine---even if your daughter does run a fancy wine shop!
Gusty winds forced a Tree Top Flyers drive-in. I delivered the sauce in the silver Tacoma---my first auto-arrival at Pond Branch Airfield.
Pond Branch Starter Chimneys---Brother Price uses paper to start the charcoal. No 100 octane aftertaste in the ribs at Pond Branch Airfield!
Weber #2. Ready for ribs. . .
Pond Branch "Falling off the Bone" baby back ribs, smothered in JP's barbecue sauce. Weber #1 in the background.
The meeting of the Royal Order of the Tree Top Flyers has now come to order. . .
After the meeting Brother Price invited everyone to tour the airfield. The beaver ponds are just off the departure end of Runway 29.
"There it is!" Another fish story. . .
Looking down Runway 11. Tree Top Flyers President Randy Berry (left) reviewing the judges' stand for the spot landing contest---canceled because of the gusty conditions.
Someone forgot to tell the judges.
Our hosts at Pond Branch Airfield, Sandy and Eddy Price.
Gusty winds forced a Tree Top Flyers drive-in. I delivered the sauce in the silver Tacoma---my first auto-arrival at Pond Branch Airfield.
Pond Branch Starter Chimneys---Brother Price uses paper to start the charcoal. No 100 octane aftertaste in the ribs at Pond Branch Airfield!
Weber #2. Ready for ribs. . .
Pond Branch "Falling off the Bone" baby back ribs, smothered in JP's barbecue sauce. Weber #1 in the background.
The meeting of the Royal Order of the Tree Top Flyers has now come to order. . .
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| Pond Branch Lagoon |
After the meeting Brother Price invited everyone to tour the airfield. The beaver ponds are just off the departure end of Runway 29.
"There it is!" Another fish story. . .
Looking down Runway 11. Tree Top Flyers President Randy Berry (left) reviewing the judges' stand for the spot landing contest---canceled because of the gusty conditions.
Someone forgot to tell the judges.
Our hosts at Pond Branch Airfield, Sandy and Eddy Price.
We were honored to have "Not So" Bob drive so far to see little old us. This especially so when there would probably not be any airplanes to gawk at. Wind was forecasted to be 16 miles per hour and not much chance any in our group would risk the 1500' airfield. His J.P.'s sauce was just right on the hickory smoked ribs. I can say the TTF's are an interesting bunch & Bob entertained us with many flying stories. We even learned about flare tubes that was on the Luscombe in Camden. He was first to come and last to leave, true sign of a great friend. Eddie & Sandy
ReplyDeleteI can't think of a better way to spend an afternoon! PBA truly is the center of the universe!
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