not so fair day at the fair

It was a dark and stormy night...

Actually not so stormy (and not night either come to think of it), but get a load of that dark brooding sky. This pic is from very late in the day right before we left for home. However, even earlier the weather was nothing like it was when I went on opening day two weeks earlier. NOT that I'm complaining! My daughter and I loved the cool breezy weather during our visit this past weekend. I don't think I can remember a day at the fair when we weren't enduring heat in a greater or lesser degree.


We stopped to watch a dance performance by the Otero Dance Company first. This picture above was a total fluke --just happened to snap it at the perfect moment to catch the dip. (There is a totally gorgeous professional portrait of this same moment at their website. I think it's so strange that I captured the same moment totally by accident.)


Ate some corn, then read some corny t-shirts that you can see here.


We had fun just the two of us.

dollar daze

Yesterday was opening day at the fair. It took me over an hour to get in due to a crazy new traffic funneling system that was put in place. Had I only known, I could have come from a different direction (all roads lead to the fair!) and not been detoured in a slow snail-like line of cars. Ugh!

The good part is that you can get in for a buck on opening day. The size of the crowd really isn't too bad either, which surprises me. I was only there for a short while since I had to be back in time to run Mom's After School Taxi service -lol! Just enough time there tho to enjoy roasted corn on the cob (yum!) and do a quick browse thru the arts & crafts building.

As you might've guessed I entered some SB stuff. This year there were LOTS of great entries - and lots more than last year. It was cool to recognize so many names on entries. My mom entered for the first time ever (and took a red ribbon --wooo hooo! You go, Mom!) My sister also entered several items (more ribbons -congrats!) And there were lots of yummy entries from my fellow good time girls as well as some of our customers. All in all, a great showing of awesome SB art and isn't that great to see? Early SB displays at the fair were very limited and the pages (if I may say so) were very conservative. It's terrific to have a varied and substantial display of creativity. Sheesh, better step down off the ole soapbox now.

On a related note... there were lots of ribbons on all the entries noted above, but two especially delightful ribbons were the orangey-gold "best of show" ribbons that went to two particular good time girls: drum roll.... Susan Bugelli, an SGT DT member took the rosette for stamping art and... TOOT! I took one for SBing. Woo hoo!

time for the county fair

It's almost here. Can't wait!