And the Results are In??

Lovely Daughter and the New Man went down to the fair last night and picked up all our entries. As I expected, I didn't do as well as last year.

This one got a blue ribbon:

This one got a white ribbon (third place):

This one also got a white ribbon:

And this one didn't get anything:

The New Man had never been to a county fair before and seemed to really enjoy the experience. First we went to the demolition derby. I haven't been to one for years and all the smashing and banging was pretty exciting. There was one gal that entered the derby, a pretty aggressive gal. And you could tell that she had done this before. She did very well - made it to the last heat and came in second place. The night before they had a combine demolition derby - you know, those big machines that harvest grain in the field? I wish I had seen that. We'll have to make a point of going to that next year. Here's a picture that a friend of mine took:

Here's a couple shots of the demo derby we went to. One poor guy had his gas tank explode and start on fire. He baled out the window very quickly, but it took the firemen a bit of time to get the fire out. Fortunately the drivers are only allowed to carry a small amount of gas, a gallon or so.

Then we had to hit the animal barns. It's always so much fun to see all the 4-H kids working with their animals. Most generally they've raised these animals from when they were babies so they follow their owners around like little puppies and cry when their owners leave the pens. Many of the kids sleep right in the pens with their animals at night, just for security purposes.

First there were the sheep barns:

And of course the pig pens:

And the horse barns:

You could tell that a lot of the horses were "peopled out" as when we would walk up to their stalls they'd turn their back sides to us. Or then maybe it was just US they didn't like!!

And then there were the baby ducks:

And of course we couldn't leave without hitting the midway. This being a small county fair, the midway wasn't very big, but it's still a great place to people watch.

And after a funnel cake and some cheese curds it was time to go home (yawn).