Vic West Corn Roast 2

Fern posted some photos yesterday of my favorite annual event here, the Vic West Corn Roast. It's been happening every September for the last 10 years and just gets more popular and better every year. Free Ice Cream, Free Roast Corn, good live music, and Zucchini Races - what could be better? Today's photos focus on one of the major events, the Zucchini NASCAR Races.

Zucchini Nascar

Anyone who has a vegetable garden here or who has friends with a garden knows the problems with zucchini. As the end of summer approaches, the zucchini get larger and more numerous. Everybody has zucchini and delivers all their excess to their friends, who are unloading their extra tons of zucchini on other people and so on.... A few lucky zucchini, however, end up transformed into race cars for the Vic West Zucchini Nascar event. One fine vehicle is pictured above having a pit stop. And racers at the starting line can be seen on the right. Unlike the morbidly competitive parent Nascar event, in these races everyone wins. The final event of the annual Vic West Corn Roast is the raffle draw and below is a photo of the event's Master of Ceremonies, Mike Raymer, attempting (unsuccessfully) to cajole local children to draw HIS ticket stub.