The Wayne County Fair
I’ve always been a big fan of the Wayne County Fair here in the great state of Ohio.
I remember going every year on fair day (we got a free ticket and a day off school). The fair started this past Saturday. We couldn’t make it to opening day, but we were able to go yesterday (and it was the perfect day – high of 72, partly sunny). So Mr Chiots and I and my mom all headed down to Wooster, Ohio to the Wayne County Fair.
We paid $3 for parking at the special “Boy Scout” area (really we just wanted to support them you can park for free in the field). It’s only $2 to get in to the fair, can you believe that? Nothing costs $2 nowadays. I think the sign must have been painted long ago and they just don’t want to change it.
The fair is full of fun and exciting sights, sounds and smells. We spent the afternoon walking through all the animal and agricultural barns and through all the vendors and the school craft barn (which I always had a few paintings in as a child).
Wayne County is a very agricultural county, it’s full of dairy farms and corn fields (if you notice on this sign Wayne County has been the #1 milk producing county in Ohio for a long time)
It was a great day. You just can’t beat the sights, sounds & smells of the county fair!
Every day this week I’ll be posting a few photos of the fair, so come on back and experience the Wayne County Fair.
What do you love about your local county fair?
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100 Reasons to Garden
Check out Skippy’s Vegetable Garden to help write the list of 100 reasons to cultivate your own.
Why do I garden? For many of the reasons on the list, particularly:
Exercise with a purpose
To get away from my computer & other technology
To grow some of my own food
So I can eat a tomato that’s still warm from the sun
To be more environmentally friendly
Because I can
For the beauty of plants
For that perfect hydrangea blossom
To make my yard more of a sanctuary for birds & wildlife (except rabbits that eat my lettuce)
To watch a vegetable or fruit go from flower to harvest (see eggplant post)
To have something to put all my rain water on from my rain barrels
Because pulling weeds builds character (at least that’s what I tell myself to get through)
To have something to put my compost on
Because it’s much cheaper than buying flowers every week at the grocery
So why do you garden?
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Lawn-Busting
Here’s an interesting article on Burpee’s about lawn busting. This is an easy pain-free way to liberate your yard and help the environment.
I’ve liberated 300 sq feet of lawn so far this summer, and I’m still hoping to free up some more. How much of your lawn have you liberated?
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A Perfect Chiots Weekend
Lucy had a great labor day weekend, she got to do all the things she loves to do. Lucy LOVES car rides, she loves to stick her head out the window and smell the world (I can only drive about 45mph because that’s her limit). She got to take 3 car rides this weekend. Saturday morning she went with me to the farmer’s market.
Funny enough, she doesn’t like to have her photo taken, so this is what happened when she caught me.
Lucy is also a HUGE fan of watermelon. So whenever we eat it she waits patiently for the rind (her favorite is the bowl end).
She’ll eat right down to the rind, and if she thinks you didn’t give her a big enough piece she’ll eat the rind.
Lucy also has a little Jack Russell friend named Ollie. She loves to go to his house to visit and run around his yard with him. They have a grand time together. Since we spent time on Saturday and Sunday with Ollie’s parents, Lucy got to spend 2 afternoons with her buddy.
3 car rides + 2 watermelon rinds + 2 afternoons with Ollie = Lucy’s perfect weekend
What did your dog do this weekend?
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Happy Labor Day!
Happy Labor Day out there for all you readers. Hope you’re enjoying your weekend. We’ve had a busy weekend here at Chiot’s Run. Sunday I potted up some hydrangeas (that were started from cuttings 3 weeks ago) and we built one more raised bed. Today, we plan on laboring part of the day in the garden, mixing up soil for the new raised bed and perhaps building more, if we’re energetic.
Before you start feeling sorry for us working all day, we did have an afternoon & evening out yesterday with our friends. First we headed down to 50th anniversary party at a camp we all worked at. It was a beautiful sunny day. If you’ve all been wondering what I look like, here’s a self-portrait.
After a few hours in the sun, we headed up to Cleveland to go to The Pub, an interesting little English restaurant with all kinds of frosty brews on tap (the front of the menu says it all).
Our friend was excited about finally being able to get a real black and tan*.
So what did we get for dinner? Fish and Chips of course and they were delicious (homemade tarter sauce was also spot on!).
A good evening was had by all. So what fun things were you up to this weekend?
*Remember to have a designated driver, Don’t Drink and Drive.
