Another Mother's Day Cartoon

Results of the Crawfish boil

As it turned out the weather was beautiful by the time of the crawfish boil and remained so for the duration.  We made the mistake of showing up on time.  The tickets said the gate would open at 2:30PM and they did have us start making a line a 2:25 however; they didn't open the gates until 3:00.  They never said why the delay but they entertained us driving various lifts in among us and then deciding that it needed to be driven back out an another one driven in to the middle of our line.  Yes it was dangerous and annoying but not nearly as annoying as the rednecks hollering "hey, let us in it's two thirty already!" over an over for the next half hour.

Here we see my daughter and her friend next to the second of two lifts that they drove into the crowd, parked it and left as a nice obstacle.  Prior to this I had a nice shady spot that I was enjoying while waiting for the gates to open.

I wish they had waited until they were ready before asking us to line up.  Once inside the gates it was pretty nice.  They were at a new location this year but as this is my first year to go I can't comment on if it is better or worse than other years.  We made a bee line for the VIP area to get in line for the crawfish.  They had a decent enough setup.  You get in line for a plate of crawfish, boiled corn and new potatoes and go sit under a tent or in an open area and eat.  Not too bad but it would have been better if they had broken up the extremely long and close table rows into two columns instead of one large one.   Some of the people had somehow acquired live crawfish and were letting them walk around on the tables.  It was cool watching the kids admire them. 

This is one that I saw just walking around later in the day.  Wouldn't it be wild if some got off in the sewers of Birmingham and in a few years we could have crawfish taking over the sewers?

The music was pretty good later on in the day.  The first two or three bands were ho hum and didn't crank my tractor but it picked up with Cory Smith and got better as the night went on.  Flo-Rida wasn't bad on the one song I like of his but it was monotonous otherwise. Cory Smith was new to me and I liked his show except for the language.  There were too many kids there to be flinging cussing around so.  Gavin DeGraw had a nice polished show and played a lot of familiar tunes.  The real surprise for me was Fergie who I had no real interest in seeing.  She had the usual rappy crappy stuff that I expected but she also covered some rock hits such a barracuda and did them very nicely.

Overall it was a nice day out but I learned that you need cash at these things.  Not one place was set up for credit cards and that is about the only way I travel any more so I was seriously on the low side of cash as everything was WAY overpriced.  I should have done like my daughter and her friend and bought a juice drink.  They got free refills on them so that was a pretty good deal.  I don't mind walking around with a stupid looking drink glass if I'm going to get a free refill!  It looks like it would have been pretty good tasting too.  I may go back someday but will definitely bring more cash and get there later.  Eating crawfish is nice but you don't need a whole day to do it justice.

Mother's Day is soon!

The Crawfish boil

Today we are going to the Schaeffer Crawfish Boil and it is raining cats and dogs at the moment.  I'm hoping that by this afternoon when it kicks off that the rain will be past.  They won't allow cameras at the place so I won't be able to share any pictures from the event.  I mainly want to eat a lot of crawfish and hope that some of the bands are worth hearing.  All the good bands were last night but since I worked Thursday night I don't think I could have stayed up for it plus my wife wants to see Fergie who is on tonight.  I don't know any of the other acts but maybe I'll find some I like.

JUST STOP RAINING!!

Finally!

So, I finally decided to do a little more than the plain old banner. Of course, I'm not happy with it but I never am. boo hoo. I imagine I'll get better at it as I go along. I haven't decided if I want to tweak the art to fit the CSS or tweak the CSS to fit the art. Right now I've tweaked the art to fit the CSS. I don't have time to mess with it right now so it will just have to do warts and all.

Kirk out!