 Thanks for checking this video out. Your mountaintop news video is coming up in just a minute. Did you know that it's going to be watched thousands of times, shared a bunch of times, likes, comments, you name it, it's going to be there. Why isn't your ad here? Call me. Since 2009, Prestonsburg resident Dwight Sloane has been growing pumpkins as part of his hobby. This month, that hobby paid off in a big way during this year's Kentucky State Fair. Nerves were shot. Nerves were shot. The way off could not get here soon enough for me. Sloane's goal since he began was to break the state pumpkin record using his seeds. Having broken it twice, Sloane went at it again, growing a pumpkin at 1,663 pounds, breaking the record by a nice 69 pounds from last year. And it's been, it was a really good plant. I started this pumpkin and I got it out maybe just to fuzz too early and tried to start another pumpkin after it, but it didn't do that so I decided to keep this one. It grew 111 days old and that's a long time for the heated here in Kentucky. The longest I'd ever had one before was 95 days, so a little nervous about that, but thank God it held. Sloane continues to say that he started growing the pumpkin in March of this year, not knowing what can happen or what it would become. That's the one bad thing about this hobby. You can be perfectly fine one day and come home the next and everything can go downhill right quick because with diseases and stuff. So it's, it's something you got to watch daily. As for how Sloane feels after breaking last year's state fair record, it's pretty nice. Everybody has been so amazing. All the outpour of support and congratulations has been amazing, feel very blessed. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Porjol.