The friday before Labor Day, Tom and I were able to go to the state fair, the boys were in school, and Tom had friday off (furlough Friday), so we took the morning to see what we could.
The weather was really lovely...not hot as usual, but mid 80's. We started in the exposition buildings and checked out the quilts (of course),
a very detailed art sculpture of San Francisco made of toothpicks,
and all the normal stuff...wood projects by students, food samples, bunnies, you know....
By then it was lunch time (or at least close enough) that we headed for the "fast food row"...I always have a corn dog...tom tried the zucchini weenie (a hot dog stuffed into a hallowed out zucchini - deep fried).
I had a soft ice cream and Tom had the county fair blue ribbon cinnamon rolls. We were set...tradition complete! (you know it is all about the food)..
We wandered through the commercial exhibits (looking for the cinnamon rolls), talked with the vitamix salesman, a cool swinging chair guy,
caught a quick look at the sewing machines (small exhibit this year - mostly embroidery machines), and headed over to the livestock nursery.
A litter of baby pigs had been born 4 days before,
they were cute...but the cows were still laboring along...no babies yet...They also have a wonderful garden there, so I was able to get some great photos of the sunflowers!
and beautiful rows of veggies...I hope that is what my garden will someday look like...maybe after I retire and there is a bit more time to play in the dirt.
Finally, while walking around the garden areas, we stopped and watched a guys from Crawdads restaurant making a mexican cocktail...a shrimp cocktail, but with a mexican flavor....and surprisingly, we got a wonderful sample! (sorry, didnt get a photo of that), but we came home and made some for ourselves...Kinda a gazpacho with shrimp on the top! Yummy....
a very detailed art sculpture of San Francisco made of toothpicks,
and all the normal stuff...wood projects by students, food samples, bunnies, you know....
I had a soft ice cream and Tom had the county fair blue ribbon cinnamon rolls. We were set...tradition complete! (you know it is all about the food)..
caught a quick look at the sewing machines (small exhibit this year - mostly embroidery machines), and headed over to the livestock nursery.
they were cute...but the cows were still laboring along...no babies yet...They also have a wonderful garden there, so I was able to get some great photos of the sunflowers!
and beautiful rows of veggies...I hope that is what my garden will someday look like...maybe after I retire and there is a bit more time to play in the dirt.
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