Fair Week

This week is Fair Week in our county. While I grew up in a rural area in Georgia, the fair was never this big-here everyone we know is involved somehow. While this is only our third summer here in Michigan, we already have a tradition of going to the fair on Wednesday night-we start out with dinner at the Rotary BBQ chicken booth, followed by ice cream from the 4-H booth, and end our evening at the harness race. Look for more photos later this week.

I've volunteered two of the last three years. The first year I was in the exhibition building with all the craft, plants, and food projects. This year I helped with the draft horse show on Sunday handing out ribbons, cleaning carts, and trying not to get run over by HUGE horses. Thank goodness the heat wave broke and highs were only in the 80s.

This is our neighbor's team of Belgian Drafts, which won its class at the fair.

There was time to walk around on Sunday to look at some of the farm animals. I was especially interested in the chickens as we will be getting a small flock next spring. I have very limited experience around chickens (brief encounters with them on the family farm out west as a child, and looking the birds as we drive past farms), so I was a little surprised by how big some of them are :-O.

What a pretty feather pattern!

Chickens don't really care to have their photos taken, but this guy perked right up when he saw me standing outside the barn with my camera phone:

These little piggies are headed for market...