It brings back a lot of memories.
When we first arrived in Turlock to go to graduate school.. none of us were to wealthy. We had a little one.. Heather Renneee and so we still gathered up our resources and went to the fair. We brought our own food.. tuna fish sandwiches. We had a good time except when it came to walking home. We could not find the exit gate that we came in to the park. Much of Turlock was made with angular streets and the fairgrounds roads are no exception. We came into the fairgrounds where it angles to a point right on the edge of East Boulevard and Canal. We tried several exits and they did not look right. Finally we figured out that we came in under the big Souza sign..that had a huge bouncing florescent sequence sign. Its no longer there. So out we went with stroller and and all.
We had a great time at the park. It was warm but not too hot. I had my favorite food, the sish kabob from the Assyrian club. There were not many takers or any kind of line for this food. That is too bad because it is really the prize of the ethnic food. It came in a sandwich with lots of fresh tomatoes green peppers and a sprinkle of cilantro. Sue had a bite of just the meat.
Latif's had the pie concession in the commercial building.(I had to have a piece of coconut cream)... along with booths for both presidential candidates. I bought a new wallet and Sue got some woodchip roses.
We had a good time in the petting zoo. I got some good movie footage of a mother sow feeding her piglets.. they were pretty rambunctious. The milk folks have a milk station set up to milk the cows that come to the fair. It was in full service. We talked to the operators and found out which numbers on the electronic readout represented the amount of milk the girls were providing.
It is measured in pounds. There were four being milked when we walked by. A couple of them were Jersey cows. The FFA was showing their goats in the arena. What fun and pretty tense for them.
They even had a place for tots to ride their toy tractors in the form of tricycles. I have some nice footage of them zooming around the enclosure.
Heather will be happy (not) that the poppers were working in full force at this fair. Many old machines were popping along from 1923 and before.
There were many nice quilts but not nearly as many as there are usually displayed at the Alemeda County Fair.
The Flowers.. particularly the Dahlias were wonderful at this fair.
They displayed about five times as much photography at this fair. Not many really good paintings however.
Overall we had a great Fair visit.
Pat
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sounds like lots of fun!
Most of the quilters are not showing at county fairs because many quilts have been stolen at fairs. Many of the fairs have started showing the quilts at high altitudes, but even then, they are hard to keep secure. I have read stories of how people have lost quilts during the putup/takedown times. Quilt shows that are put on by quilting clubs have changed so there are not that many quilts being shown as before. The big shows spend big bucks on security. These times, eh?
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