The Turkey Pit (11/26/08)

This was my first year making Thanksgiving dinner...well, with my mom's help of course. In the past we have always gone to family or we have gone to a Thanksgiving buffet because my kids were too few and too young for the hassel and all the major leftovers that would be left to just Chad and I. I had it easy this year because we cooked our turkey underground in a pit overnight.
Some friends of ours in our ward...Buckey and Marcey have done this in their backyard for 3 years now.
We first cleaned out the turkey and then rubbed 4 cubes of butter throughtout it and threw in some garlic and seasoning salt. Then we wrapped it in two turkey oven bags, wrapped it in foil, and then in chicken wire. We made an "E" for Edgerton so we would know which was ours. There were 24 turkeys in the pit this year.

After the turkeys were lowered beams were put across the pit and then plywood on top.

Bucky and a few others are putting dirt on top of the plywood wherever smoke is seen to keep it all in.

We haven't had rain for the last 98 days until last night and it started to rain again so they decided to try and put a tarp on top because the rain was suppose to be heavy. Here's Chad covering it up. We brought our turkeys over at 10pm and will pick it up at 10am tomarrow morning.