County Fair

T & I came to the startling realization the other day that in all the time we've lived here we've never been to the Perry County Fair. So we hitched up the buckboard and headed to Newport to check it out.

We discovered that we had been missing quite a lot.

We visited an antique shed where we saw an old coffee grinder and some cast iron skillets.

There were a couple of pavilions with crafts and the like. T went through these while I mostly trailed behind.

We went past a bunch of old tractors and a row filled with new farm equipment -- log splitters, outdoor wood-burning furnaces, and some of those cool zero-turn mowers.

There was a bored looking camel walking around in circles. Every time around he would stop at a little platform and someone would climb onto his back for a ride. The camel was moving his lips in a funny way. Probably muttering camel swear words.

It was a one-hump camel, for those interested in such things.

All of the local fire companies and ambulance crews had their equipment on display. The volunteers had their uniforms on, with utility belts dangling flashlights and two-way radios. Just in case.

There were three rows of food booths selling various deep-fried things. Even fried Oreo cookies, which we did not sample.

We saw cows, goats, sheep, and rabbits. There was a contest where two pairs of kids would throw a hay bale. The pair that threw the bale the farthest won. It wasn't clear what they won.

County-wide fame, maybe.

We didn't see everything, though. We missed the horse show, the pig races and the Moore Brothers.

Maybe next year.