Our County Fair

L and I went down to check out the action at the HP county fair. One of the banks in town held their annual feed and drew a lot of people. I think that you had to purchase a button, so we didn't go. Then there was the annual pedal pull. A little boy named Malichi was participating. We said hello to old friends, who we normally only see in passing on the streets.

The farm kids show their animals for prizes. Plenty of pigs, horses, cows, goats, and chickens. There is even a little kiddie barn. With a donkey, goats, and probably some kitties for sale. We didn't go through there either.

Then we went to the big blueish greenish fair barn where booths are located, businesses, and some of the open enteries are shown. We knew that PV had a booth and proceeded to walk over there. Before we reached the booth we saw a booth for the HP county courthouse celebrating 100 years in November. They showed the clock tower and we both thought of "Back to the Future," movies. Then we saw the Harper Historical Society's booth. This one should probably take a blue ribbon. I was very impressed with all the old newspapers of the town covering the booth. Then we came to the PV booth. Someone from our church had a collage of pictures showing what we do at church, plus a few ads for the cookbook and an informational pamphlet about our church. Of all the churches, ours was the most informitive.

Then we looked at the entries. There were a lot less kids entering art projects this year. In years past we have had someone who taught art over the summer. But that person got into some personal criminal problems and wasn't there to help direct the art program this year. The photography entries were good...especially flutes pictures. Someone entered a picture of a cat in black and white and the same cat in color...pretty redundant.

The sewing enteries had the most. I guess HP county is famous for their sewing.

In the area of foods there weren't too many either for the 4 H kids and the open class. Same way with the photography area, next to no one entered. In the 4 H sewing, it was pretty sparse too as well as the crafty area. Not a lot of people entered things this year.

The carnival with rides opened later in the night and you could see the glow of the Ferris Wheel looking north on Central. It looked pretty. The parade for the fair will be on Saturday. Usually that is a big noisy draw with the Midian shrine bringing their tiny motorcycles and featuring equipment from business in the county. Flute will probably be posting pics in the inky paper for next week and these will be shown for at least 3 weeks if not more.