The Green Corn Festival pics were great. The ones of Big Mac and all the guys sitting around in front of the building was funny. Didja tell 'em they looked like a buncha ol' farts sitting around the general store spittin' cussin, and gossiping? LOL!
I ended up not going to our Keller Festival. I kinda hated to miss it, but I got my husband started on my cross fencing project to keep Tennessee off the pasture and that was way more important in my book. Maybe next year.
LOL...they do look like ole farts don't they:)
The festival was nice, but I'm glad it's over. Lot's of stress...
The city of Bixby is so corrupt:), like most cites. The officals that run this festival, just kind of run rough shod over the business down town. I really don't like to pull power plays, but we don't like being taken advantage of either. Our building/parking lot is just right on the corner where all the activities take place. We had to monitor who the parked in the lot. 1. we just had the lot overlaid, and it's not really made for heavy trucks. 2. there are business in our building that depend on that lot....
With out even asking, the "officals' had earmarked our lot for handicap parking. Mack stopped that, mainly because he had already given permission for others to park there who "asked". They also have the band that plays for the street dance on Sat night set up on the porch of our building, and of course they've never asked permission. We don't mind, but Sat. we had a conflict:\
For the last 3 years a school that teaches clog dancing has brought their students to put on a demonstartion in the street. It's really cool and I really like watching. Well Sat. an hour before they were to perfom people started setting up on the sidewalk and our porch to watch, me included. About 15 minutes before they started the band showed up, and ran every one off the porch, and said they were going to have to set up while the kids were dancing....I mean, that's just rude. These kids come out and these guys were going to be setting up a ton of sound equipment right in front of them....I decided to put a stop to that.
It's funny how mouthy people can get, till they are told whose who. I didn't want to, but it finally came down to, "I OWN THE BUILDING AND THE PORCH", YOU'RE NOT SETTING UP TILL THE DANCING IS OVER.
Needless to say, I don't think Mack and I are very popular with the city...I guess we don't have proper community team spirit:)
Becky