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Pelican’s SnoBalls In Grovetown – A Great Place To Beat The Heat

This past weekend my family visited the Pelican’s SnoBalls location in Grovetown. It was a great way to cool down on a hot Saturday afternoon. My wife and I really…

Pelican's Snoballs Is A Great Place To Beat The Summer Heat
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This past weekend my family visited the Pelican's SnoBalls location in Grovetown. It was a great way to cool down on a hot Saturday afternoon. My wife and I really enjoyed it, however, I think our daughter Maddie was the biggest fan!

Pelican's SnoBalls Has Something For Everyone

With the heat being so bad in the CSRA right now it's easy to just stay inside where the AC is. However, we were looking for something to do to get out of the house. I suggested that we go get snowballs. We haven't been to Pelican's SnoBalls in a hot minute, and their Grovetown location is right around the corner from our house. So as soon as Maddie woke up from her nap, we headed over there.

Pelican's SnoBalls has so many different flavors, over 100 to be exact. So it was hard to figure out which ones we wanted to get. I settled on the Root Beer Float, which is root beer flavoring with creme mixed in. Kelsey and Maddie split a blue raspberry snowball, and as you can tell by this picture, Maddie really enjoyed it!

We will definitely be making more trips there this summer to give some of the other flavors a try!

There are a bunch of Pelican's SnoBalls locations around the CSRA, so odds are there is probably a location close to you.

  • 3644 Walton Way Extension in Augusta
  • 3326 Peach Orchard Rd in Augusta
  • 101 East Robinson Ave. in Grovetown
  • 707 Edgefield Rd in Belvedere
  • 210 East Gate Dr. in Aiken

If you want to check out more info about Pelican's SnoBalls, just click here.

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Speaking of summer, check out some of the best country songs of summer!

12 Of Country Music’s Best Songs Of Summer

Today (6/21) marks the first day of summer, which gives us the longest daylight hours of the year and is the official start of summer. The summer solstice happens when the sun appears to be directly over the Tropic of Cancer, and for 2023, that's 10:58 a.m. Eastern.

The longest daylight hours of the year will vary depending on how far you are from the equator. Daylight hours will gradually shorten until the winter solstice in December. The situation is reversed in the Southern Hemisphere, where winter starts in June.

Luke Bryan told us recently, before he launched his 2023 "Country On" tour for the summer, "Nothing is better than being out on the road in the summer."

For Dierks Bentley, summer is about having fun and lighting things up a bit. A few years ago, Dierks told us before he launched a summer tour, "Fireworks were a big part of my summers growing up and explosives and putting half sticks of dynamite in mailboxes and just having fun."

Chris Young told us a few years back that summertime is the time to work when you are a country singer, and vacations during the summer are few and far between. He said, "Everyone else is getting a chance to relax a little more, but as a musician, you're playing somewhere, and it's always tricky trying to work that out. Everyone is like, 'You should come over; we're having a barbecue,' and I'm like, 'I'm gonna be in the middle of the country."

Little Big Town's Phillip Sweet told us about his group's summer anthem, "Pontoon," when it first came out, "It's just fun, it really is, it feels like summer, and it feels exactly what it sounds like. I grew up on pontoon boats in the summer on the lakes and just having a blast."

As we bring in the official start of summer today, we look at what we believe are twelve of the best country music songs celebrating the summertime.

12. Blake Shelton - "Some Beach" (2004)

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Blake sings of frustrations and having to wait all afternoon at the dentist's office by wishing that he were "on some beach, somewhere."


11. Zac Brown Band - "Chicken Fried" (2005)

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The lyrics include, "You know I like my chicken fried / Cold beer on a Friday night / A pair of jeans that fit just right / And the radio up."


10. Chris Janson - "Buy Me A Boat" (2015)

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The song expresses the fact that "money can't buy happiness /, but it can buy a boat."


9. Carrie Underwood - "Southbound" (2018)

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Carrie said of the writing process on this song, "I was like, 'This sounds like fun, I think. We can do something fun with this.' But then you realize how tricky for some reason it is to be a woman and write kind of a drinking party boat song."


8. Kenny Chesney - "When The Sun Goes Down" (2004)

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The song is a summer duet with Chesney and Uncle Kracker.


7. Luke Combs - "Beer Never Broke My Heart" (2019)

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The massive hit that Luke closes out every show with, it features a list of various things and people that have disappointed him in his life before concluding in the chorus that "long-neck, ice-cold beer never broke my heart."


6. Luke Bryan - "That's My Kind Of Night" (2013)

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A big ole' summer hit, "That's My Kind of Night" helped Luke set a record as the first male country music artist to top the Billboard's Hot Country Songs and Top Country Albums charts simultaneously.


5. Sam Hunt - "Body Like A Backroad" (2020)

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According to Hunt, the song was written after his engagement to Hannah Lee Fowler. Sam described it as "a lighthearted song."


4. Florida Georgia Line - "Cruise" (2012)

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The song's video was filmed outside Nashville and featured the duo driving and performing against an American flag backdrop at a colorful paint party.


3. Keith Urban - "Long Hot Summer" - (2010)

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Keith co-wrote this infectious summer anthem with 1980s pop star Richard Marx.


2. Little Big Town – "Pontoon" (2012)

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A career-defining song, "Pontoon" won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance. It screams summer and makes you want to board a boat as soon as possible.


1 - Alan Jackson - "Chattahoochee" (1993)

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Luke Bryan said in a recent interview that when he thinks of summer, this is the song he thinks of. Alan said of the song he co-wrote, "It's a song about having fun, growing up, and coming of age in a small town - which applies to anyone across the country, not just by the Chattahoochee."

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Bryan “Dub” Axelson is the host of the Kicks Wake Up Krew on KICKS 99 and has been with Beasley Media Group in Augusta for over 20 years. He got his start in radio by being a regular caller on the Kicks 99 morning show. He was soon hired and has worked in various roles in Augusta, including Promotions Director. He was raised in Georgia, and currently lives in Grovetown with his wife Kelsey, their daughter Maddie, and their 3 dogs. Dub enjoys watching sports, playing golf, spending time with his family, and discovering new music.