Watermelon Festival

HUGE watermelons!!!!

All you could eat....red or yellow meat.

I love my watermelon!

Down town Russellville..don't ya just love the old theatre? They are going to redo ours in Moulton too.

Gotta have your typical Big A__ truck!

The old tractors

Chuck has always wanted one of these old Broncos Saturday was the " Russellville watermelon festival". Russellville is a small town about 27 miles from Moulton. They closed off the " down town" roads and set up all the booths. There were lots of different crafts, which Chuck and I got some " ideas" from. BUT!! there were no watermelons to be bought, or watermelon crafts any where. Not even a " Russellville Watermelon Festival sign. There were the usual old cars and tractors that have been at all the festivals we have gone too. Oh yeah!...of course homemade ice cream....and yes, I had some. Summer will be winding down here soon and there won't be any more homemade ice cream until next summer. Chuck looked at the old cars while I walked down the street and took pictures of beautiful homes. We also went into a couple of " junk/antique" stores. We did find the irons for our fire place. They are really old and really pretty. We just have to paint them black and they will go with our antique mantel. After walking around, we heard someone say that they were giving " free" watermelon away, behind the church, so we headed that way. They were having a watermelon contest and you could eat all the watermelon you wanted. " Red and yellow meat" . ( notice in the picture of me eating...how my face looks swollen.....I'm allergic to hot peppers and I had eaten some cold slaw with some kind of peppers in it the other day. My face has been itchy and swollen for four days now, this has happened to me before. That's why I kinda know what the cause is) One of the booths was stuff made out of some kind of cement/resin. There were some really neat benches. A couple I would love to have at Brambly Pines, but they were expensive. All in all, it was worth going to the festival....since I could eat all the watermelon that I wanted. :-)