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The county fair started yesterday and we managed to get there today to walk around and have a ride or two.
The fair is small but free; it's sponsored by the local 4-H board. We are a small, rural county. We don't have the best farming land in the state, but we're still a farming community; although lately we've changed from being all dairy farms to more diverse -- even exotic -- farms. The livestock exhibits are my favorites -- always have been. Checking out the cattle, swine, goats, sheep, horses, sheep, poultry... It's a nice stroll and it's fun to talk to my mom while doing it. Both her and my dad grew up on dairy farms and it's always interesting to listen to them talk about it; there is so much about life on a farm fifty or so years ago. There were two little goslings in a cage with their mother; if you've never been around goslings, they make quiet little peeping sounds. My mom sis that it made her homesick because they always used to raise geese -- 40 or 75 of them. They would then dress them out in the fall and sell them. That would be their Christmas money. They also raised chickens, turkey ducks and plain ol' ducks. She also told about the white pigeon that was her pet. It would sit on her shoulder and stalk cats in the barn. Until the morning she came in and there was nothing but white feathers left. She had a sheep named Timmy, too.
The rides at the fair are average and there is the obligatory games and carnival-type booths. The food is great. Burgers and fries and all that. Plus elephant ears and funnel cakes, cheesecake on a stick, monkey tails and more of the type of food that I'm sure the Surgeon General would ban if he/she could. Sunday you can buy a pass for $11 that will let you have unlimited rides from 1 - 4. We will buy a pass for Myr and Wil -- maybe. Wil's stomach hasn't handled the rides well the past couple of years. We're hoping not eating before riding and a good dose of Benadryl or the like will let him ride with her. Other times rides are $2.25 - $3.00 each. A little pricey if your going to do a lot of riding, so it's worth braving the lines in order to save some cash.
Wil is working late tonight and tomorrow, and we're not the sit at the fair and have a drink or two type people anyhow. But I'm thinking that Sat. night we may just head over and do that. Of course, since Wil has to get up early (4 - 5 am early) I don't see us hanging out there too late -- you can tell that we're just the "party-hearty" types.
Still, it a wonderful thing to spend a couple of hours at the fair, remembering that the world that I live in most of my life is all about small things: walking with my family and looking at animals, taking time to play a couple of games and watch my daughter take a ride an a carnival ride, eating a elephant ear and looking at all the 4-H projects that are being judged.
My life may be small but it is a damn fine life nonetheless.
The fair is small but free; it's sponsored by the local 4-H board. We are a small, rural county. We don't have the best farming land in the state, but we're still a farming community; although lately we've changed from being all dairy farms to more diverse -- even exotic -- farms. The livestock exhibits are my favorites -- always have been. Checking out the cattle, swine, goats, sheep, horses, sheep, poultry... It's a nice stroll and it's fun to talk to my mom while doing it. Both her and my dad grew up on dairy farms and it's always interesting to listen to them talk about it; there is so much about life on a farm fifty or so years ago. There were two little goslings in a cage with their mother; if you've never been around goslings, they make quiet little peeping sounds. My mom sis that it made her homesick because they always used to raise geese -- 40 or 75 of them. They would then dress them out in the fall and sell them. That would be their Christmas money. They also raised chickens, turkey ducks and plain ol' ducks. She also told about the white pigeon that was her pet. It would sit on her shoulder and stalk cats in the barn. Until the morning she came in and there was nothing but white feathers left. She had a sheep named Timmy, too.
The rides at the fair are average and there is the obligatory games and carnival-type booths. The food is great. Burgers and fries and all that. Plus elephant ears and funnel cakes, cheesecake on a stick, monkey tails and more of the type of food that I'm sure the Surgeon General would ban if he/she could. Sunday you can buy a pass for $11 that will let you have unlimited rides from 1 - 4. We will buy a pass for Myr and Wil -- maybe. Wil's stomach hasn't handled the rides well the past couple of years. We're hoping not eating before riding and a good dose of Benadryl or the like will let him ride with her. Other times rides are $2.25 - $3.00 each. A little pricey if your going to do a lot of riding, so it's worth braving the lines in order to save some cash.
Wil is working late tonight and tomorrow, and we're not the sit at the fair and have a drink or two type people anyhow. But I'm thinking that Sat. night we may just head over and do that. Of course, since Wil has to get up early (4 - 5 am early) I don't see us hanging out there too late -- you can tell that we're just the "party-hearty" types.
Still, it a wonderful thing to spend a couple of hours at the fair, remembering that the world that I live in most of my life is all about small things: walking with my family and looking at animals, taking time to play a couple of games and watch my daughter take a ride an a carnival ride, eating a elephant ear and looking at all the 4-H projects that are being judged.
My life may be small but it is a damn fine life nonetheless.
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Date: 2003-07-17 09:40 pm (UTC)From: