This weekend was a whirlwind of events!
This weekend consisted of a bunch of barbecue and fire ants(not real ones PTL!)! My small town hosts the Fire Ant Festival every fourth weekend in March. There are many cute events held annually including the Strawberry Cookoff sponsored by Calhoun Produce,, a Fly-in in which children and adults are invited to visit our small airport and see the planes and go for a short ride over Turner County, a lip sync contest, health fair, and 5K run. It's been estimated that our small town of roughly 5,000 brings in 25,000 people! That’s quite a feat for such a small town! Learn more about our Fire Ant Festival here.
My Bubb cooked in the barbecue competition and was a trooper for just having surgery on Monday and only being able to use one hand! His team has a catchy name too, they call themselves the Flyin’ Swine Smokers. He of course had some awesome friends and a great brother-in-law to keep him company and provide some extra hands! They stayed up all night Friday night tending to the scrumptious barbeque smoking away on the smoker and it paid off! They won third in sauce out of 20-something teams. This is their first competition and they were only behind the two teams that tied for first and second by .3 pts! Below are some pictures of some of the chicken they entered in the competition.
Here are a few snapshots my sister took and posted to her photography page.
Yummy BBQ chicken from the Flyin’ Swine Smokers cooking team.
Awesome fireworks show on Friday night!
Some yummy entries from the Fire Ant Festival Strawberry Cookoff! They did a great job of incorporating the ant theme, even though this is not required!
5K and fun run!
This calls for a great weekend for our little town!
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