The county fair…8/7/10

I have never attended a county or state fair that I can remember. I knew there would be livestock and rides, and cotton candy, but I didn’t really know what else to expect. It was much like the Western Stock Show in Denver, but on a much smaller scale. We brought Sequoia to help carry some of Adam’s oxygen equipment which he had previously successfully done. However, this time he got spooked by the tubing and kept stopping. I think I may have traumatized him before we went by trying to connect the O2 pull cart to his backpack and he couldn’t get away from it. Oops. I need to work on that one.

From the minute we walked in to the fair Sequoia was the hit of the whole show. People were stopping us asking his breed and commenting on how he’s so well-behaved. Everyone wanted to pet him. Then he spotted the lambs. It was love at first sight. He has always had an affinity for bunnies, and he gave the lambs the same lovelorn look he affords the bunnies. Of course he wouldn’t know what to do with them if he caught any of them. We continued into the tent where there were livestock in open pens. Those were the cleanest cows, pigs, and goats I have ever seen. We passed one cow who must have been herded by dogs because she spotted Sequoia and was promptly spooked, but she didn’t take her eye off him. The pigs on the other hand were all lying down in their pens just working on getting plumped up to go to market. They didn’t pay him any attention.

The fair didn’t offer much else. I guess there was a rodeo earlier in the day and some animal showing, but nothing much was happening during our time there. We hear from the locals that they go there for the food…dinner for $10 all you can eat and a pancake breakfast sponsored by the Cowboy Church. I never knew there was such a thing. It is just as it sounds; a kind of roaming congregation for the local cowboys. I wonder if the pastor is a cowboy as well. Adam did want to make a run back there tonight for a funnel cake dessert, but there had been a downpour and it looked closed when we got back. That meant we also missed the square dancing! Darn. Do you know I actually had Square Dancing lessons in gym during kindergarten? I could have finally put that knowledge to good use.