Fair Report - 2021

 Hooray!  The Durham Fair is back! What Fun

I love the agriculture displays

The Animals

Great Decorations for these cows!

Horse Pull

The demolition derby - oh yeah!

The food vendors - there are about 100

The pulled pork and mac 'n cheese in a waffle cone is as good as it sounds.

The personal achievements and displays

I loved this Girl Scouting display (and so did the judges).

Song of the Sparrow was awarded best Appliuqe' quilt.  So exciting! It will move on to the CT State Competition later this month.  The blue quilt next to mine is hand pieced and hand quilted.  

There were many lovely quilts and other needlework.

My Pineapple also won a Special Ribbon.

This was David's first time at the fair.  Needless to say he loved it.

I got my flu shot this week.  I figured since I'm teaching and lecturing at guilds in personal again it is a good idea.  I am not qualified for a covid booster so this helps keep me healthy I hope.

Happy Fall ya'll!  Soak up some homey feeling of autumn.

xo

Meet Me at the Fair!

I posted this photo on Instagram from our local Agricultural Fair, The Durham Fair, with a promise for a blog post.  So here we go....

We go for the food and the animals but the food is always first.

 MMMmmm, deep fried oreos and a lime Rickey (fizzy sweet and tart drink).

the gold standard of any fair - hand dipped corndogs.

 The canning competition.

 I really like to admire the farm stand presentations.

Oh, My GOURD!

We fell for these puppies waiting for adoption.  Molly and Gus, 3 month lab mix.

We found our favorite Cows! Mama, Amber and her calf Darcy.

 They were too busy eating to catch up with us.

 A chocolate bunny, lol....

 Hanna and Llama

Oh my, the sheep were in an uproar!  Check out the one who is chewing the railing.

The Goats were so curious about the sheep.  It was the first night of the fair so they were all excited.

There was one big mama pig with her babies.

Here are a few photos from yesterday at the Big E Fair.  It was celebrating it's 100 Birthday and here was the cake (over 200 pounds of cake).

here is what 600 pounds of carved butter looks like:

We paid $3.00 to see 3 bears in a trailer.  Would you?

 the painting was nice, but I hated to see them in a small space.

 They were eating peanuts from their handler.

We saw Karen giving rides - again, I hate to see an Elephant here, but she was sweet.

I petted a pretty little donkey whom I would have loved to take home too!

Block Swap packages are arriving here and there is a tie with 8 packages from each group.  Great job everyone!

Thank you so much for your sweet notes of thanks and also for the little extras.

I hope you have enjoyed visiting the fair with us!