Saturday, August 24, 2013

fair time


It's back in town!!!! our annual, local, little county fair. We had the perfect weekend for it - considering that two years ago we had a hurricane heading our way and the fair was shut down early - and as happy as I am when the fair comes to town, it is definitely an "end of summer" event. I wanted to show Mocha this year, but I didn't get her paperwork completed... maybe next year!!!!
They had a huge entry of cows this year.... real beautiful animals, and some breeds that I had never seen before.....
I admired the way these young folks handle these animals... cows are so different from the horses (or dogs)... and there certainly is a skill that is required to get a cow to do as you wish!!!!!

Since Sadie had to work, we asked if we could bring Abbie along with us. She was so excited to go, and she so enjoys the fairs. What I think is neat, is she likes everything... most little kids only want the rides and food... but Abbie likes to see it all..... here she and Papa watch the ox pulls..







Course, the food is always a big hit.. and true to Grandparent style... we let her eat it all..... the word "no" didn't exist today!!!!
She rode just about every ride they had....
Sometimes... twice!!! She's fearless and will take on any one....
And next year... we'll have two in tow... as Reagan will be certainly old enough to try out his first fair season.....
At night we packed up Debbie and went back to the fair ... it's a great training site for the service dogs!!! As I pretty much figured.. I really didn't see the fair... everyone loves a puppy and I could manage to walk about 20 feet between stops... The funny thing is, I had so many people ask "what is this year's puppy named?"... (guess I have been raising puppies for a while now!!!)
Debbie just went with the flow.. she was interested in so many things, but always well behaved and never fearful. I have a very good feeling about this little girl.. that's for sure...
She didn't approve of the "fake service" dog......
But, she thought the "polar bear" was kind of neat.... in fact, I had a hard time pulling her away from him.... she loved all the attention he gave her....












Probably the "hardest" thing was just keeping her nose off the ground... it was just full of all sorts of "dropped goodies"....but overall, she did an outstanding job. I will certainly bring her to more fairs this fall....

So.. two of the "end of summer events" are done... Firemen's Muster, fair... next is Labor Day and then it's hello fall.... goodness that was a fast summer.....

1 comment:

Alex said...

We didn't make it over with my in laws 50th that weekend, i had hoped to see your craft entries- I always look for them!!