Peanut Festival

We made our yearly trip to the Peanut Festival on Saturday night. We thought the yard sale was cold, but it was nothing compared to the fair.

Bo forgot his hat and gloves at the house. And I told him not to wear two pairs of pants, I was wrong about that one because our legs were freezing by the end of the night. Luck for us we had plenty of extra shirts in our car.

My mom is to cold to smile for the camera.

Fresh HOT boiled peanuts. A great reason to go to the fair. We mostly went and ate this year. Watched my nephew on a few rides and then went home.

My dad riding the scooter he rented. Lets just say this one was nothing like the one we rented at Disney World this summer. It barely made it two hours before it lost all of its juice.

Roasted Peanuts

Okay, I know that you are probably tired of hearing about peanuts. So I promise that this is my last post about them for a while.

This year at the parade we picked up a ton of green peanuts. I mean more than we could really carry, and we really didn't know what to do with them. We all ate a few at the parade, but I mean I had 2 and half quart size bags of peanuts that I didn't want to be put in the trash.

So, Bo roasted them for me. We were really not sure if it was going to work, but it did. He put them in the oven at 350 for 40 min., turning them often. They came out great! After he shelled and pealed them we had 3/4 of a pound of FREE roasted peanuts. You just can't beat that. Especially since I have several recipes to use them in this holiday season.

Peanut Festival

I know that I have shared pictures from the Peanut Festival Parade, but blogger hasn't wanted to let me share pictures from the fair with you.

Bo and I enjoyed a night of fun with my family. Here we are watching Nephew take a ride on the elephants. Nephew wasn't tall enough to ride the rides by himself so the adults in the group took turns riding with him. This ride wasn't our turn.

I loved this door that was displayed in the arts and crafts exhibit. It won second place. Bo and I say it every year, but next year we are going to enter the photo contest. It is a really big exhibit at the fair and next year we hope to participate.

A trip to the fair isn't complete without eating. There are so may local vendors and food to sample that there is no way you can eat it all in one night. One of the things that my mom and I love is the hot & fresh kettle corn and we have to get some. Our group shared this bag and what little was left I ate the next day for breakfast.

A fair would not be a complete visit with out a corn dog from the corn dog man. I only had to wait in line 15-20 min to pay $6.00 for two corn dogs, but man they were good.

Peanut Festival Parade

Bo watched his first peanut parade this weekend.

To start the parade was the dumping of the peanuts out of the cement truck on to the road.
Nephew and Brother picked up peanuts on the street.
These were some of the best green peanuts I have ever eaten.

I even got into the act of picking up peanuts.

We ended up with two quarts full of peanuts.

The parade had huge gaps in it. So we ended up not staying for the entire thing. It was really long. We did have fun sitting out on a sunny day with our family. We saw several people we knew both in the parade and watching the parade.

Alabama National Fair

Tonight Bo and I decided to go to the fair. As always it was a lot of fun.

The dress I entered won second place.

Needless to say I was disappointed, but there is always next year.

I couldn't go to the fair without playing some fair games.

I didn't win a prize, but I didn't feel like I was cheated either.

I don't what I would do with an extra large stuffed animal anyway.

I enjoyed my Carmel apple with peanuts.

I love these and could eat them until I was sick in my stomach.

Then we watched the racing pigs.

Bo was selected to participate in the Chunk-N-Dale Dancers. This is him dancing.

I wish I could have taken a better pictures, but I was having so much fun seeing him dance in front of 200 people.

Then finally the diving pigs.

Bo got a bumper sticker for participating. It says pot bellies have more fun.

Then we went to the petting zoo and feed the baby goats.

I loved our night of old fashioned, clean, family fun at the fair.

Weekend Update

These pictures are not exactly in the order I wanted them, but I'll share them anyway.

This weekend we went home and visited my family and finished the weekend by eating a Sunday night steak dinner with Bo's family.

We had such a great weekend! We at Sunday Lunch at Red Lobster, and they have to have the best cheese biscuit. Nephew agrees. He liked them so much that he licked his plate when he was finished. I snapped this picture before his dad could tell him no.
My brother was willing to try on the golfing pants I made. Apparently I sewed the fly in wrong because Brother said that I sewed it on the woman's side. But he says that he may wear them next year for Halloween.

I wanted to show you a picture of Nephew's costume. I couldn't get any really good pictures of him because he was nothing, but content motion Friday night. He even invited all of of his new little friends into the house to Tricker Treat. Boy, did he look cute.

Saturday night we went to the National Peanut Festival. I enjoy all of the wonderful fair food - a corndog from The Corndog man, a funnel cake, cotton candy, and of course boiled peanuts.

Opening Night at the Fair

Last night, Bo and I went to the Alabama National Fair and started our yearly participation in the Creative Living Center events. Which we won't be able to participate in as many events as in years past.

Bo made his Sweet BBQ Frog Legs for the President's Choice Cooking Contest. This year the president choice was "How do you like your Wild game?" Most of the other contestants cooked venison, but not Bo he had to think outside the box. He ended up not winning, but he did get interviewed by the paper and everyone wanted to try his frog legs so in the end if there would have been a popularity contest I think he would have won. There is always next year.

This quilt was one of my favorites.

The Fair Is Coming!

Last night in between laundry, dishes and vacuuming, I had time to look at this years Alabama National Fair book. I don't think that I will qualify for the "Busy Bee" Special Award this year, but I hope to enter as many contest as possible. The last two years I haven't really been able to participate, but this is my year. Do any of you participate in your State or Local Fair?