The fair lasts all week long and the kids have been so excited about it, seeing the animals, eating the legendary fried dough (how my teeth, skin, body all cringed at just the sight of it, batter having been deep fried, smothered in butter and then liberally coated with sugar) and going to bracelet night - all rides included in the entry price.
I popped along last Sunday for a visit. The animals ranged from the very cute - lots of piggies, goats, hens, rabbits and guinea pigs, miniature ponies - to the not so cute but rather majestic - oxen and pulling horses.
We watched some prize goat judging which looked kind of mean to me as they all desperately needed to be milked and could barely walk, but they had to be this way in order to be judged properly.
We also saw some horse pulling. Humungous horses are all decorated beautifully and are attached to a harness to pull along some very heavy blocks of concrete. I almost forgot to mention the weighing of the pumpkins. These incredible brutes had to be picked up by a fork lift truck in order to be transported to the weighing scales. The one in the picture weighed 1050 lbs. You could make a fair bit of Pumpkin pie out of it, but carving it up might take a while!
There were some great exhibits about Maine's agricultural history but it reminded me a bit of the balloon festival in terms of the quality of the stalls!
As you can see from the pictures, we had a September heat wave last weekend too. Away went the tights, out came the shorts and sunglasses again and it was beautiful. Not so as I write this...chucking it down and feeling very autumnal. Fall is well on the way and the leaves are beginning to change. It is strange without conkers. Not sure I miss that blooming conker tree in the playground though, or rather I don't miss having to be the tree police and draw monitor for mouldering conkers!
Halloween too is on its way and preparations are in full swing. There's a great house I pass on my run which is already done out with pumpkins and ghouls and the front door is covered in cobwebs. Pumpkin head beer has hit the shops and my taste buds, as has Anne's yummy homemade pumpkin bread.
To avoid ending on a food note yet again...I hit the charity shops today (or rather the Goodwill thrift shops) in search of reading material, having completely given up on American TV, and came home with a bounty of books for 10 bucks. Did have to laugh that a British copy of one of the books (telltale sign was a 99p sticker) cost a dollar more than the US version. Obviously British translations are worth a premium here..it must be the extra letters in colour and bahaviour that do it!
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