The county fair and summertime go hand in hand in our history. Days (and nights!) spent finishing projects, long hot hours in judging and the smell of hay and animals in the barns. The greased watermelon contest ended the fair for the 4-H kids, a reward for having worked so hard. Throwaway clothes, towels and a large vat of grease cutting orange mechanics soap. There was nothing funnier than our normally pristine girls scrubbing up afterwards in the cattle wash behind the barn.
Tippecanoe County's fair food is legendary. Ribeye steak sandwiches, hoagies, sweet corn, crisp hot elephant ears and lemon shakeups. We don't even sample these things elsewhere, knowing they won't measure up.
We'll be dropping in at the Tippecanoe County fair for a couple of days next weekend. Hannah is a first year 4-Her and some of our daycare kids will be entering the Kooking for Kids class in the Open Show. It will be good to see, hear and smell what's familiar for July fair time.
We started making some new July fair time memories here in Ohio this year. I entered the photography division in the open show and was surprised to win Best of Show with a photo of an egret on Sanibel Island. There were 738 entries so it really was a surprise when I won. The win came complete with ribbons, a plaque, gift basket, prize money and the opportunity to meet some nice people here in the community.
Miss Haylee as the Garden Fairie on the right side of my blog page received a Sweepstakes award in its division and Josh as The Bug Boy received a third placing in its class.
We're looking forward to what we know will be waiting at the fair at "home" in Indiana. The familiarity is comforting and sweet. But it's nice to know what we'll look forward to here in our new home at next year's fair. New familiarity can be sweet too.
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