Sunday afternoon, we packed up and headed to the first of the local fairs. The season is just beginning and around here, there are many wonderful, small country fairs to attend. I like the smaller ones, because they often have the "charm" of old fashion fairs... horse shows, lots of animals, handcrafts and the like. This particular fair was really small... smaller that even I expected, but it was fun, and great place to take Abbie.
The animals were all groomed to their finest, and lots of babies, because many of them have just been born over the past month or so.
We watched a "steer" class. Nice to see how well these animals work and I, for one, can appreciate the time, effort and training that goes into working with large animals. They had many good look "yoke of oxen", but this pair, I thought, was really good looking.
This is Zeus... a celebrity of sorts. He's a Belgian, but weighs in at 2100 lbs. and is 21 hands.... one big boy for sure. They say he eats a bale of hay a day and 50 lbs of grain a day... he sure was impressive, but I'm glad I don't have that feed bill. Abbie thought he was neat, but being around horses all the time, she wasn't as impressed as some of the other kids.
She did, however, fall in love with this sheep. He/She was particularly friendly and wanted all the attention it could get. Abbie didn't want to leave and several times kept saying... "go see baa"....
Course, you can't attend a fair without taking at least one ride. They actually didn't have that many to choose from, but the carousel worked fine for Abbie...
I hate to think that the fairs are sort of a sign of fall.. I'm far from giving up the summer... but, time is one thing I can't control...
1 comment:
I wish there were more fairs like that around here. The ones here are all about rides and cotton candy and no animals. I grew up in Ohio and the fairs there had rides, but were mostly about animals and 4-H and girl/boy scouts creativity. I loved going to the fair and seeing all of the animals. I loved being a party of 4-H & girl scouts and getting judged & blue ribbons for my creations. I just don't see that, or find it, around here. Your pictures look like so much fun!
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