Well the State Fair was fun, and cold yesterday!! The deep fried twinkie did not live up to my expectations, the twinkie was cold inside and the outside was just a barely sweetened tempura type batter, if the twinkie would have been melty and gooey it would have been really good. The chicken on a stick was excellent!! Yummy boneless skinless chicken thighs grilled in an awesome sauce on a wooden skewer..really really good, 6 bucks but worth it..the twinkie was 4 dollars!! The critters all seemed well taken care of, never did find the chickens though but dang there were about 200 hogs!!! Lots of cows and goats and the sanitizing hand washing stations were nice with all the door handles you have to touch to get in and out of those buildings. The canning section made me wish I had entered something, I thought, wow, some of this is beginner looking...and ya'll, the crochet awards went to some amatuerish looking stuff, shawls and small afghans, plain looking.. A bit of it was nice but most was beginner stuff. The quilts were nice too but you couldnt even see them, they were piled together on top of each other so all you could see was the binding and about an inch of the quilt. The painted gourds, egg gourd ornaments and birdhouse gourds were much nicer than last years..made me wish I had done some of them too and entered although that would have been steep competition as they were all relly good. I saw alot of jointed wooden animals, they were cute as could be. Not anything new and inspiring in the craft section though. Only a couple of pieces of jewelry and none of that was even inb the ball park with Haleth's work (a BYC jewelry maker)..it was a fun day, thousands and thousands of people and a MILLION strollers but fun all in all!
I haven't been on here in forever. We are sick right now with the flu. Don't know if it is h1n1 or not, b/c we went to an urgent care place and they don't test to see if it is h1n1. The only ones that aren't sick are one of the twins and the baby
