JONESVILLE – Grady Lee was sitting on a hay bale beside T.C. Lindsey and Co., better known as the Jonesville Store, playing his guitar and yodeling through a cowboy song, "yo da la e ohhhhhhhh."

"I thought you might hear the coyotes howling at the end of that one," Lee said, from under his "Boss of the Plains" Stetson hat with a 7-inch high crown and a 5-inch brim.

In the meantime, about 40 people were sitting on their hay bales, basking under Saturday's mild fall sun, or standing and listening, most scraping their paper bowls for the last of Lee's smoke-flavored chili.

It was dubbed the "First Fall Fling" and that's all it featured, Lee's singing near his personal chuckwagon and the family chili, cooked over an open fire.

Wife Susan Lee – she and her husband, a professional musician, are Marshall residents – said the chili was created, as usual, by just throwing some ingredients in a pot.