The Famous Shelley Spud Day

Shelley is a small town here in Idaho. I teach at the school and last year it finally became a 4A school. Anyway, they are still big farmers in the area and do alot of potatoes, we get 2 weeks off from school just to harvest potatoes. I have to go back tomorrow. I have really been enjoying my two weeks off. The only down side is that it cuts into our Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks a little. On Spud day they have a parade and then a thing in the park with booths. This year the choir did face painting and lets just say I got really good at spiderman. Ugh. I wish you were here mom. I also got requests for Sonic, Tinkerbell, flowers, hearts, horse, cat, dog, and butterflys. I like doing flowers and hearts. They do a spud tug. It's a tug a war but a mashed potato pit. As you can see from the pictures they are real mashed potatoes. What they do is they bring in a HUGE box of those mashed potatoe flakes and a cement truck. The fire department puts bucket after bucket into the cement truck and then they start mixing. Then just like cement they dump them out into the pit. Enjoy the pictures. The last picture is one of my nerdy choir shirts. It has a fermata (a birds eye) and has it's meaning which is, You Can Hold Me As Long As You Want.