August 5, 2009
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This and that and the other thing
Last week MK spent three days at the Boonville Oneida County Fair. This is an event that has been going on in this area since the horse and buggy days. She went up with some of her friends to learn about showing cattle. She came home all fired up to show cows next year with the same friends. She’s so lucky that she was born after the first of January so she can still be in 4H since she will still be 19 on the first of next year. Her friend’s dad said that she can show one of their calves since we don’t have any.
While I was there on Thursday I saw these two Scottish Highland oxen. They were beautiful to look at but I kind of felt sorry for them, there they were on one of the few warm days that we have had this season with all that hair. That yoke is pretty impressive too. That piece of equipment is not only useful but it is a hand-carved work of art.
There is my girl in all her damaged glory. Doesn’t look so bad from here you might say. I have the urge to photoshop an eye patch in. If you look closer you can see the large crack in the grill and in the bumper and in the side panel above the tire. Did I mention that it wrecked my alignment that I had the week before and I want them to check my new rim for cracks?
Saturday MK and I attended the annual Old Home Days on the circle in Vernon Center. This too is an event that has been going on for many, many years. There is a parade with fire trucks, my personal favorites, and old fashioned cars. Then there are booths with crafts and different churches have their offerings of goodies to sample. The local FFA has their Maple Sap house on display and of course the firemen have the smokehouse and other safety displays. I can never resist getting the handouts that are meant for the children. Fortunately the local volunteers are all friends and tolerate the crazy woman who lives on Indian Town Rd. I put the fire hat on Brutus when I got home and he hammed it up for the camera before taking it off and chewing on it.
The people that Doug works for raise Golden Retrievers, among other money making ventures on their farm. Two weeks ago one of their bitches had puppies. They are so roley poley I couldn’t resist taking some pictures of them.
Another of their mother dogs had puppies on the 31st, quite unexpectedly. There is such a contrast between the newborns and the two week old pups.
This one is still damp from the mom licking her off.
Comments (6)
Sorry about your car.
Those puppies are adorable!
Sleep well!
Okay, I’ll try to write about all 3 of your posts. Glad you were okay in the long run after the sting. BEWARE this time of year of the biting insects! Wil got hit by a swarm of hornets in a gooseberry bush. Not a pretty sight but he isn’t allergic, thank heaven. No more gooseberry bush! Now they have to watch for bees in the hay field since he mows without a cab on his tractor.
We have a Golden. They are the sweetest pups and grow like the wind and stay sweet as adults.
I’m with you on McDonalds…yuck….but if it makes him happy…….Wil has a farmer stance too. All stances are the same with farmers with their own little quirk thrown in so their wives can pick them out of a crowd.
@TheSunnyC - You got it about the farmer stance. When I’m old and grey and my eye site isn’t so great I will still know that man by the way he stands. I’d have a golden if only they didn’t shed so much.
Wow, the oxen are impressive! And that yoke – hand carved! What a skill. This post makes me wish we had a county fair that was less about rides, fried food, and noisy crowds of rude people, and more old fashioned.
@nettieheidmann - Ours is getting that way but we stay away from the midway and stay around the farm oriented things. My kids don’t like the midway because they were never treated to it when they were young. My favorites are the tractor pulls and the antique cars and tractors. I guess I’m more guy than girl.
Our Zeb is totally and completely an outside dog. He gets brushed off and on and I’d love to give him a good soapy scrubbing bath but can’t do it anymore. He is constantly in the pond or creek no matter what the temps but I still think he needs scrubbed to the skin but as you know with a Golden getting through their 2 coats to the skin is a BIG job.