Leftovers

This'll probably just be a quick spastic blog about highlights from the 5^th annual Sherrick Pig Pickin'.

The "event" is technically on Saturday, but the Friday night festivities have gone through a disproportionate growth in attendance – compared to Saturday. The necessity for a Friday night party rose out of the issues of grilling a whole pig at eight in the morning. Basically, we invited a group of people who we knew would get up and put in work to make the party on Saturday happen. Then we started having so much fun that more and more people started coming up on Friday. This year, we had maybe 20 or so on Friday and only added a few stay-over guests on Saturday. It takes a lot of commitment to go in for the whole weekend, and it looks like our general population commitment level is rising rapidly.

Pops wanted to put the pig on earlier this year – about the same time we did for the first Pig Pickin'. It ended up being a little dry – about like the pig from the first Pig Pickin'.

Non Sig Eppers won the annual wiffle ball game this year – supposedly for the first time ever (so far Sig Eppers have been the ones keeping records). I'm not naming names, but somebody had a bases-loaded AB with two outs in the final inning of a three-run game and blew it. Austin had a great diving stop and base tag at the hot corner – easily the play of the game.

This was our first year with a live band. Everybody reported enjoying that, especially the band.

I met a lot of new people this year, which I think is a good sign. In previous years, I've always known pretty much everybody, but it was nice to have some fresh faces around.

Thanks to everybody who came out and made it happen, and if you didn't make it this year, there's always the next one.

Event of the Week:

UNCW classes start Wednesday. I get to meet a bunch of new students (roughly 125) and begin another semester of ruining young minds.