I did walk on Saturday (yesterday). I just didn't make it a dedicated walk, as I went to the county fair and walked around.
In the exhibits buildings I noticed that 4-H knitting seems to be extinct, examined the cooking and place setting exhibits, studied the "Tom Thumb" flower arrangements (I remember my mom entering hers in the Grant Co. fair when I was a child), and saw an award given for the tallest sunflower. There were information posters of the Super Bowl, how eggs are made in chickens, and how to identify lice eggs on feathers. The 4-H sewing award went to the backpack, not the coat. The decorated cakes and sets of vegetables that followed the fair theme, complete with plastic pigs and cows got the biggest ribbons of rainbow hues and brown, both with gold lettering.
I ate a corn dog while watching a silly magic show ( Vampire oranges suck the juice out of blood oranges. Hee.). I was tempted to have a doughnut ice cream sundae, but I passed.
I did not get my photograph taken at the Old Timey Booth, or the one with the giant arm chair, or the $5 for four pics photobooth. I kinda regret not doing any of them, but given my current state of temporary unemployment, it was probably just as well.
I inhaled sandlewood smoke at the made-in-India out-door vendor stall, admired the colorful clothing and hats, fingered the leadlike necklaces featuring dragons and scorpions and peace symbols pendants.
OSU's costumed mascot Benny the Beaver was greeting people outside the live stock buildings. Inside, I studied the eyes of lambs and goats, and checked out the rabbits, where I saw the cutest little bitty bunny rabbit! that looked like it had hopped out of a Japanese anime forest. It had little black ears that were straight and pointed out, like a V, little black round nose, and little black slits of closed eyes. The rest was a pure white ball of short rabbit fur, paws tucked under where they couldn't be seen, where they wouldn't disturb the perfect symmetry of its round body.
I liked the little nature reserve that is on the grounds. It was nice and shady and had two ducks floating around in the small pond, and the little stream was musical.
I spotted the Balloon Lady, wearing her big hooped skirt, making her little pieces of art by the vendor building. Inside the vendor building, the Republican booth had a card-board cutout of Donald Trump, standing by itself apart from the table and the posters of the local and state office runners. I entered the library drawing and got a free notepad and pen for stopping by its booth. The cookware sales pitch had a nice little crowd, sitting in the folding chairs. The Tupperware booth had the measuring cups I wanted (with the 2/3 and 3/4 cups), but didn't have prices on them. I got some $30-a-jar aloe stuff rubbed on my arm,
Didn't go on any rides; there wasn't any Ferris wheel but there was a kiddie merry-go-round that was completely empty when I first walked around it. There was a long line of parents and toddlers waiting to get on the small horses and the one green winged dragon. I didn't see any live camel rides, but I didn't look very hard for them either.
So I was there for a while, got my hand stamped before I left. My car was parked at the end of the parking lot. I was careful to look at landmarks before I left, and so had no trouble returning to it.
Nice day, glad I went. No sunburn!
In the exhibits buildings I noticed that 4-H knitting seems to be extinct, examined the cooking and place setting exhibits, studied the "Tom Thumb" flower arrangements (I remember my mom entering hers in the Grant Co. fair when I was a child), and saw an award given for the tallest sunflower. There were information posters of the Super Bowl, how eggs are made in chickens, and how to identify lice eggs on feathers. The 4-H sewing award went to the backpack, not the coat. The decorated cakes and sets of vegetables that followed the fair theme, complete with plastic pigs and cows got the biggest ribbons of rainbow hues and brown, both with gold lettering.
I ate a corn dog while watching a silly magic show ( Vampire oranges suck the juice out of blood oranges. Hee.). I was tempted to have a doughnut ice cream sundae, but I passed.
I did not get my photograph taken at the Old Timey Booth, or the one with the giant arm chair, or the $5 for four pics photobooth. I kinda regret not doing any of them, but given my current state of temporary unemployment, it was probably just as well.
I inhaled sandlewood smoke at the made-in-India out-door vendor stall, admired the colorful clothing and hats, fingered the leadlike necklaces featuring dragons and scorpions and peace symbols pendants.
OSU's costumed mascot Benny the Beaver was greeting people outside the live stock buildings. Inside, I studied the eyes of lambs and goats, and checked out the rabbits, where I saw the cutest little bitty bunny rabbit! that looked like it had hopped out of a Japanese anime forest. It had little black ears that were straight and pointed out, like a V, little black round nose, and little black slits of closed eyes. The rest was a pure white ball of short rabbit fur, paws tucked under where they couldn't be seen, where they wouldn't disturb the perfect symmetry of its round body.
I liked the little nature reserve that is on the grounds. It was nice and shady and had two ducks floating around in the small pond, and the little stream was musical.
I spotted the Balloon Lady, wearing her big hooped skirt, making her little pieces of art by the vendor building. Inside the vendor building, the Republican booth had a card-board cutout of Donald Trump, standing by itself apart from the table and the posters of the local and state office runners. I entered the library drawing and got a free notepad and pen for stopping by its booth. The cookware sales pitch had a nice little crowd, sitting in the folding chairs. The Tupperware booth had the measuring cups I wanted (with the 2/3 and 3/4 cups), but didn't have prices on them. I got some $30-a-jar aloe stuff rubbed on my arm,
Didn't go on any rides; there wasn't any Ferris wheel but there was a kiddie merry-go-round that was completely empty when I first walked around it. There was a long line of parents and toddlers waiting to get on the small horses and the one green winged dragon. I didn't see any live camel rides, but I didn't look very hard for them either.
So I was there for a while, got my hand stamped before I left. My car was parked at the end of the parking lot. I was careful to look at landmarks before I left, and so had no trouble returning to it.
Nice day, glad I went. No sunburn!
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