Robot Claw

We went to the Columbia County Fair today. We saw many things! Here’s a selection…

The rabbits were very cute; there were big ones and small ones and two mums with babies. I’d say there were about two dozen in total and many of them seemed to be owned by the same person!

Fairs always seem to have scarecrow contests and this year one of the entries was Grease themed. Danny seems to have fallen over…

There was a crafting pavilion with a lot of olde-timey crafts being demonstrated including a blacksmith, basketweaver and feltmaker. The turned-wooden bowls were beautiful but very expensive.

You’ve seen many photos of sheep-in-clothing before on this blog and as usual I was charmed by them again. We glimpsed one of these guys sans cape being groomed and his fur was ultra short and soft (and clean)!

This giant pumpkin was conveniently shaped like a chair, but I very much doubt they wanted anyone to sit on it!

Over on the midway they had the usual array of beautifully engineered rides (none of which I rode), including a short mini rollercoaster with spinning cars.

The sideshow games were staffed by the usual frightening carnies and featured a dazzling selection of desirable prizes…

Unusually – and the first time we’d seen this – they also had a section of coin-pushers using real quarters that paid out cash?!? Isn’t this illegal? I put exactly one quarter in and actually did knock some coins down but they didn’t come out the hopper so there were shenanigans going on!

This was my animal of the show: an inky black and supremely handsome rooster! KLS said his eyes had a ‘spark of intelligence’ 🙂

And just before we left she treated herself to a chocolate-mint milkshake. At this point I was overrun with exhaustion, possibly from heat? Maybe I should have eaten something.

Overall a fun time, as fairs always are. I think we’ll visit one more this season..

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