Today we opened for business at the organic market, featuring the meats of Tony and Siggy who raise animals organically. My smoker debuted to rave reviews. Mark finished up his last welding details on Thursday and Frank put the wood paneling on Friday, and we barely had an opportunity to get it lit up and do some preliminary testing before hauling it out early today.
After making it home Friday, my gardener Jason helped me get some polyurethane on the beautiful pachote wood paneling that Frank put on. Frank's original idea for the dimensions were to make it large enough to haul a quad on the back, and a big marine cooler in the front. So after he put the wood on, he loaded it up to see what it would look like. Frank seemed very happy to see his dream machine in good hands. But his second baby is keeping him busy enough and slow smoking takes time.
Yesterday when I was hauling my new machine home one of the wheels nearly came off because the wheel lugs hadn't been tightened and two of them fell off, leaving only 2 on one of the wheels. With a little help from friends including Gunther and Marcel I got back on the road. I had looked separately for a jack and tire iron, but apparently they were stolen out of my car, which is a problem down here. Not thefts of jacks, but crime in general. The same thing nearly happened again this morning with the other wheel, but we made into the parking lot at Tropical Giardino and got them tightened later. Anyway, Ryan and I served a lot of sandwiches today and things are moving ahead. We won't be cooking back at the organic market, though. This was a special occasion for the season opening of the market. But there is a restaurant there that serves lunch that isn't happy about me taking business away from them from their own parking lot, and I can kind of understand that, although it is a disappointment. Next week we'll start setting up at a location close to the main beach entrance.
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