Before I fall asleep, I figured I'd better throw in a post to update everyone on recent happenings. This weekend, Tank and I did the Big Equipment Auction at Richmond on Friday, which was huge, packed up an headed for Harrisonburg for the Rockingham Memorial Hospital picnic on Saturday.  Peggy worked it also plus we set up our double fryers  we use for high volume events.  Would you believe we did 986 funnel cakes in five hours?  That's cranking them out.  Almost 200 per hour or about three per minute.  Afterwards, I crashed at Peggy's because I didn't have the energy to drive back to the farm. On Sunday morning, I drove to Lynchburg, unloaded  Sweet Pea (my new Mitsubishi) and dropped the trailer after unloading the equipment.  About 11am, I left for Summerdale, Alabama to pick up Big Red.  I got as far as the middle of Alabama before stopping on Sunday night.  On Monday, I drove the 150 or so remaining miles and went thru all of the paperwork, checked out the new trailer and [flickr style="float: left"]photo:2760198652[/flickr] its equipment and got some training on all of the features.  I left about noon and headed back.  It took 19 hours total driving time pulling Big Red but finally got back to the farm late Tuesday afternoon. I'd hoped to use it this weekend but I'm not sure I can get all of the preliminary work done like seasoning the griddle and boiling out the new fryers, plus setting up the Health Department inspection.   I also have to get the new propane tanks and have them installed on the tongue.  In addition, I have to set Tank up in Bedford on Thursday and still have the auction and Amelia on the weekend.  So it looks like the Chesterfield County Fair will be the unveiling of the new Big Red starting on the 20th. I'll try to find time tomorrow to take some pics and get them posted on Flickr plus will have plenty from the fair. The past couple of weeks have gone pretty well.  The auction and Amelia have been solid.  Tank's tour went well except for Altavista that has had a change of policy on food vendors.  And we celebrated mom's 90th birthday. For now, its time for a nap.