Tom Hartman showed up late , so it ended up being 11 of us . Patrick Moore decided to pick up the ticket and said he couldn ’ t buy lunch for him and Margo in Chicago for what he paid for all 11 of us . We headed back to The Birds Nest and the setup began . We started assembling the Easy Ups , the tables , picnic tables and the 10 by 20-foot tent . Judy and I began to unload some of the stuff out of the car and Bullocks had their swag shack in full swing with people manning that and selling Bird ’ s Nest merchandise like T shirts , pint glasses and coffee cups .
Friday evening rolled around , and the party started . I mean a good old-fashioned party that was people sitting out on the deck enjoying the weather , the sunset and the music . People inside the Nest are doing karaoke and dancing . Everyone was drinking Hamm ’ s and Grain Belt . There was an excellent array of food put out , and the porkchop guy was back this year . I ’ d like to call him Mr . Porkchop , but that ’ s not what he goes by . He ’ s with Faribault County pork producers . He was selling pork chops and man were they good ! He had a $ 5 chop on a stick , a $ 7 Chop which was kind of big and a $ 9 Chop . I bought the $ 9 Chop for Judy to split . She filled up eating some of the side dishes and had one bite and I cut a little piece off and then I wrapped it up and put it in the refrigerator for breakfast or a snack . Apparently , somebody in the middle of the night decided to eat it for their snack , so it was gone before morning . Big Bird shut the nest down about 1:30 . I got Judy out of there at 12:45 and got a pretty good night ’ s sleep .
Friday Night fun in the Nest .
Your hosts Dave & Missy Bullock before the big rush
The sun starting to set on Friday Traders
As usual with beer shows . Everybody was setting up bright and early . We got up , showered and dressed and went outside and got our table back into shape for selling . I started flying the drone a little bit . It was the first time I ’ ve ever had a good drone , one that could shoot good video and had a good camera , and it was about my third flight , so I wanted to get some drone photography and video on the on the event I did manage to get some . After getting home , I ’ ve been able to figure out where the SD card goes and so some of the videos I shot didn ’ t get retained . But we did get some and it was a lot of fun flying it and I think people enjoyed looking up and seeing it . Anyway , we did several drone flights throughout the day and people came here . Here ’ s live Sally going on raffle tickets being sold by Shelly and my daughter Haley and we got the auction items lined up and set out . The weather was perfect , right around 70 degrees just even though it isn ’ t quite fall yet . It was just like a perfect fall day or a late summer day . And you just couldn ’ t ask for a nicer day for a show . Well with attendance good and lots of good items being sold .
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