campfire hotdogs

 i did a meetup walk this evening, at a park in bloomington. it looked familiar while driving in, going past a ski jump, and i had done a walk there before, also a moonlight edition, over a year ago. it will be memorable for the campfire at the end, where we were grilling hot dogs. at first i saw others doing so, then asked if i needed to grill my own. it was hard to see when it is dark, and was told the dogs were in a crate near the benches, hebrew national. i hadn't grilled anything over a campfire in a while, so i tried one at first. we were using metal roasters, which looked like a big fork with two prongs on it. when i saw smoke rising from the hot dog, i pulled it away and looked at it with my flashlight and it was blackened enough on both sides for me. so i was given a bun and paper towel, put ketchup and mustard on it, and it tasted fine to me. and then i grilled another one. somebody played 'southern cross' by CS and N on a guitar as well. memorable from the walk itself was getting up to the top of the skiing hill where snow was being made, although it was starting to snow when i arrived for the walk. there were two signs up saying hiking was prohibited near there, but we kept going anyway. i got a picture of the second sign. i spoke with two people there besides the event coordinator. one had a saints baseball hat on, and said his wife was there, who had been hit by a car. the other spoke of working at a theater that will have a burlesque show early in the new year and had been struck by lightning apparently. i saw it as personal growth on grilling my own hot dogs- it just meant asking about it and was better than trying to find food somewhere else. all a matter of do it right or not at all, as i saw that the dog was pushed on the roaster far enough so it didn't fall in the fire. i left just as they were grilling marshmallows for smores. i had eaten some m and m cookies from the picnic table, as well as some potato chips. i also brought a 2-pack of reese's peanut butter, football shaped, so i had eaten plenty by then anyway. 

  i got plenty done before going on the hike. i picked up two orders from the post office, then took recycle to the capitol. by then it was time for a sandwich at jersey mike's. when i got home i went to aldi for groceries. then i watched more from the prep bowl, stewartville was already leading over annandale 21-7 by then late in the 3rd and went on to win 43-13. i decided this was the best game plan- watching it from my easy chair- as i likely would have missed the hike if i had laid down. after the hike i got a can of pryes from the liquor store so now five beers are waiting. during my walks i found 1 dollar 3 cents.