Totally agree with you Cassiesmom.
I love looking at the veggies people grew. The flowers (are they nicer then mine?)
The homemade candies, candles, fudge.
The kids craft projects put together with such hard work and hope.
The quilts, wooden projects made by the farm people so humble and hardworking.
Of course all the animals from the big draft horse to the mini horse, the bunnies to the fat sow with babies.
All the fun food, cotton candy, my favorite candy apples, elephant ears, funnel cakes.
What I find truly disturbing is looking at the cows and pigs and the smell of hotdogs and hamburgers through the air, so strange. I can't eat any meat there, not sure how clean it is either.
Yes there are some real hillbilly people there but they are enjoying a day out with their family just like I am so God bless em.
I don't mind the smell of cow poop or cow snot, I love the smell of hay and horse butts are so cute along with pig noses and billy goat faces and rabbit feet oh I just love them all.
And then I can get dressed up and go uptown and hob nob with the best.
I can step in poop and 5 hours later put on $200.00 dollar shoes and go out. Life is so full of adventure and fun. Why not keep an open mind and explore it all and find joy and laughter in all of it. I do and it is wonderful.
For years I could not go to this fair, it was the last place I saw my mom before her car accident and death.
It took me about 8 years to go back and I am glad I did. I had an elephant ear that year with my mom and my daughter. Alicia was 7. Now every year we have an elephant ear for grandma at that fair.
I feel her with me. I remember how she loved the animals and how they came to her as well. They sensed her incredible love for them.
If you have never gone to a state fair it is a treat. I have been to the Columbus State Fair it is truly an all day event and it is a blast.