July 22 County Fair

We found out the county fair was happening, and decided to go. We had a good time going through the different animal exhibits: dairy, beef, horses, swine, rabbits, sheep, goats, chickens, turkeys and one lonely silver pheasant.  We had fun watching a horse ground-driving class being judged. Walking behind your horse, you directed it with reins to go around objects, go into and back out of a rectangle, and stop by a mailbox while you collected the mail & put it back in the mailbox.  We discovered that the Chocolate Shoppe had a food truck there, so we got some great-tasting ice cream, then on to the midway. Grandma Kay was wise and had us walk through the rides so we could see what was there, and then each grandson could go on two rides. Had some fresh-squeezed lemonade and ate some pizza and then for the typical fair food--some COTTON CANDY.  We all had a fun time. A smile:  our grandsons seemed to have as much fun running throught the misting station set up to help peoiple get cooled off as they did with their rides.  
  An interesting note is how the people in the exhibits were almost entirely caucasians, but the midway was about 30% caucasians or so.  

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