Festival Days 2009

Last Saturday was Farmington Festival Days. We skipped the parade and picked raspberries and did yard work. Around 2:00pm we went over to browse the booths and eat lunch...BBQ sandwiches from Alison Springer’s husband’s family trailer/business. It was a much bigger to-do this year…more games for kids and more booths and things to look at and buy and eat. The farmer’s market idea must be a craze this year. We went back at 8:00pm for dinner (Peruvian chicken kabobs and fried rice) and a free concert…a Beatles cover group called Imagine. They’ve been around for about 15 years and were great...vocals were a little flat once in a while, but the music was excellent and they played for 2 hours with only a short break. They came out in black suits, changed to beige Neru jackets and finished off with colored satin Sgt. Pepper costumes. I sang along with every word. There was a good crowd singing along, too. There was free ice cones/sundaes for everyone and a closing fireworks show. We’ve seen parts of them from the house for a few years, but this time we were up close and personal. They played music “clips” while shooting off the fireworks and it added a lot. The weather was a little cooler than other years, so it was a very pleasant day/evening. Way to go, Farmington.


Booths, picnic tables, parachute.


Singer/songwriter/guitar player was pretty good entertainment. We also watched mediocre (at least compared to Airie's group) cloggers.


Mayor Scott Harbertson at his daughter's booth.


Dinner while enjoying the free concert.

Paul, John, Ringo and George...they even used British accents.

Good music (our favorite stuff) and lots of fun.

Firework Finale.