Snapshots: The County Fair

The first weekend of August is our county fair weekend. Our fair is reeeally tiny. No rides, no food trucks, no concerts. It's really just agricultural products and crafts, livestock showing, a kids' rodeo, and a dance on the last night.

Let's go!

Our family entries for the indoor competition this year included basil from one child; a diorama from another; and cookies, shallots, Armenian cucumbers, and rhubarb from me.

The diorama, cookies, and cucumbers got first-place ribbons.

Our former neighbor in the village teaches dance for little girls, and also sews these really cute outfits for her dancers.

The kids got to watch their friends show their animals.

This is a market steer. I don't know why the steers are always foaming at the mouth in the show ring, but they all do.

Waiting for the parade to start on Main Street.

Pole bending during the kids' rodeo.

Getting ready to ride steers.

Ironing for the dance.

At the dance.

The dance is a community event for all ages, held in the livestock show pavilion, with a live band. The two oldest boys and Poppy wanted to go, so I went with them. It was fun. Lots of people, lots of kids, but way too late for me. I think it goes until midnight, but we left at 10 p.m. because I had to get up early this morning to be Church Lady.

I am very tired right now.

There you have it! My life, snapshotted.