Cook-out with Rich and Karen

We went to Rich and Karen's for a cook-out, which was also a birthday part for Rich. Sunday, 6/27, was his 50th birthday. There were a couple dozen people there, some we knew and some we didn't. We had a great time moving around the groups of people, talking. For the meal they had a wild turkey (from the spring turkey hunt) rubbed with herbs and on a spit over a campfire. There was a salad of wild and garden greens, even a few edible flowers on it, and things like sliced beets and grape tomatoes. A cast-iron dutch oven kettle had sliced potatoes in a white sauce. It was a delicious meal.
Karen is building an outdoor oven near their babeque pit. When she gets the outside all covered over with bricks she'll cover the whole thing with adobe/clay. The fire will go in the bottom, and the heat/smoke will circulate up around the metal drum, under that mesh that's a couple inches out all around, then out through the stove pipe. The bottom of the barrel has sand and fire brick so that the heat from below won't simply "cook" the bottom of the food.
In the picture below you can see the fire pit with the turkey skewered on the spit, and below that and to the left is the dutch oven with the potatoes in it. The oven Karen is building is to the left of this, out of the picture. In the background you can see their garden and greenhouses.

We had a nice time there. We got home around 6:00. I mowed the strips of grass around the garden and between the planted areas, and transplanted 18 more broccoli plants from where the volunteers are coming up. Now I have 44 transplanted broccoli plants!