don't mean to blow my own whislte, but mainly i wanted to tell you guys what my club did for this show. last spring we used our old tractors to break and disk the ground for four plots tht were about 50 x 100. we planted corn, cotton, peanuts and sugar cain. we got to getter as a group and chopped the crops out and sprayed some with round up in the middles. this week end we had a tractror to dig and flip the peanuts over. we let kids and adults pick the peanuts and caried them to out tent and we boiled them for them. we had corn shellers set up and crushed the shelled corn into meal. we set up a mill to squzze the cain with and ran it off of a hit and miss engine. we had all kinds of tractor games, picked some of the corn with an old allis chalmers with a icker on it, had a concretre mixer running with q hit and miss engine. made some pillow cases pick sacks and let kids pick cotton by hand. we had several hand crafters on hand, including a basket maker, black smith, guy craving things witrh a chain saw, a wood worker making laminte plates, we had 4 class on different ways to do things on tractor clutches, hit and miss mags, a prony brake demostration, a guy with a cut down model of a stone grinding mill so you could see how all of it worked. the spectators weren't there is all since it was out first show there, but we had a lot of kids go through all the exhibts and they had a ball. we're a small club, but about 15 of us put this show on and spent a lot of time setting all these displays up and working together as a group. we pulled and old road grader with anybody's tractor that wanted to hook to it. we had a good time actually using out tractrors and hit and miss engines instead of just setting the tractors and engines out and displaying them. we actually had one of the best times we ever had at a show. we were all up and going and using these thngs and helping the kids with doing the demos we had set up.we crushed the cain and cooled it off and cut up some cain for the kids to chew on. i'd like to encourae some other clubs to give this a try. not only did we learn to work togetrher and get to know each other real well, but we also had fun. it was a lot of work to make it all come together, but it was worth every minute of it for every body in the club. we got to show kids some things and got to use our tractors and it was just a great day for every body. we felt like the kids really got to learn alot and we're hoping that some of these kids will grow up and remember this show and maybe get into a club at some time later and get some young blood in the tractor clubs. the name of our club is the southland flywheelers and we're located in and around huntsville in north ala. we have a web site, but we don't haver a good web master,but your welcome to check it out. we're going to work on it a lot this winter and tryh to get it up and going better. thaks for letting me brag a little bit.