Thursday, September 18, 2008

9/18/08 The End of a Season

Here's the National Weather map for tonight for Maine. A little part of the state is having a frost advisory and the whole rest of the state, including Farmington, is having a freeze warning. Bring in the pumpkins and the last of your peppers from the garden. ;-) [No, I do NOT have a garden with peppers or pumpkins or anything else that could get damaged by freezing temps.]

Think back to the blog entry about goldenrod. On 8/2/08 I learned the legend that 6 weeks after the goldenrod blooms, you'll have your first frost. That was 6 and a half weeks ago. :-)

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9/18/08 The Farmington Fair

Last year I attended the Farmington Fair for the first time (thanks, MRM!). I'm an expert at The State Fair of Texas, but this was a whole new world. I considered myself a beginner at Farmington Fair. This year I moved up to Advanced Beginner and actually worked at the fair!

Here I am with Andrea (who leads my church choir) volunteering in the St. Joseph's Food Booth at the fair.



Here are Jeremy and Claire (she's the head of religious education . . . I know her from being an on-call substitute for Sunday School) working in the back, doing all the cooking and most of the food prep.

Right out the window of the food booth, we could see the harness racing (and we don't have that at The State Fair of Texas!).

Every fair has its competitions: animals, cooking, canning, needlework and more. Farmington has its fair share, including cut flowers.

Ultimately, though, for some a fair is all about the Midway or the rides, but for me, it's about the food. Someone's planning on making A LOT of french fries during the one-week event.

MRM taught me last year that King and Queen fries are the best and she is sooooo right. I helped them make a tiny dent in this giant stack of sacks by eating a small order of fries.

They've got it all in this one booth. The cotton candy reminds me of Coney Island.

The Texas State Fair is famous for frying a lot of unique things. Both fairs have fried Oreos for sale.

But I know for certain that The State Fair of Texas doesn't have deep fried whoopie pies!