The County Fair

**Marigold2** · 08-27-2010, 07:30 PM

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.

**pomtzu** · 08-28-2010, 06:30 AM

I think it's just wonderful that the "hillbilly people" are tolerated at the fair! After all, it's "that type", and the farm people, who originated these fairs, not the uptown hob-nobbers dressed to the 9's, and wearing their $200 shoes.

**Bonny** · 08-28-2010, 07:08 AM

That is why we started a 4-H club in town so the town & country kids could get together. The pet show & dog show really work well in that area to bring people together. The way the farm folks dress may not look sanitary but you have to realize they have chores to do at the fair. People have to realize their food just does not come from a grocery store it comes from the farmer. If it wasn't for the farmer you would have to raise your own food or starve.

**Bonny** · 08-28-2010, 07:12 AM

I should also mention the up town hob nobers do buy the livestock at an auction & the farm kids go home with $$$$ in their pockets to bank & when they graduate from high school their is a nest egg their for college. The farm animals are purchased way over market price too. It has gotten better over the years believe me.

**pomtzu** · 08-28-2010, 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by Bonny

I should also mention the up town hob nobers do buy the livestock at an auction & the farm kids go home with $$$$ in their pockets to bank & when they graduate from high school their is a nest egg their for college. The farm animals are purchased way over market price too. It has gotten better over the years believe me.

I do believe that you missed the whole point of my post #22.

Did you miss these little guys?

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**Bonny** · 08-28-2010, 07:59 AM

Pomtzu, I am not sure? This mean

sarcastic? I was just putting in what I truthfully know about county fairs & the towns folk. Been there & did it.

I didn't look at Marigolds comment as an insult as you did Pomtzu. I took advantage of it to educate people. You can take a negative & turn it into a postive that is what I have learned to do in life. I learned that in 4-H.

As far as people not wanting to attend the fair because of the smell, dust, dirt, filth so be it. It is a free country they can do what they want to.

**pomtzu** · 08-28-2010, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by Bonny

Pomtzu, I am not sure? This mean

sarcastic? I was just putting in what I truthfully know about county fairs & the towns folk. Been there & did it.

I didn't look at Marigolds comment as an insult as you did Pomtzu. I took advantage of it to educate people. You can take a negative & turn it into a postive that is what I have learned to do in life. I learned that in 4-H.

As far as people not wanting to attend the fair because of the smell, dust, dirt, filth so be it. It is a free country they can do what they want to.

It was in no way anything against the farmers and "hillbillies" - quite the contrary. Fairs were their game, long before the "others" joined in. I just felt it was a snub of sorts by the OP, since the OP never misses an opportunity to show her self-imagined superiority. I was trying to be somewhat subtle about it, but guess it didn't work that way. But I won't delete my post - that's NOT my style, as is with others.
Besides - I'm on "ignore" with the OP.

**Freedom** · 08-28-2010, 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by Marigold2

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.

I think having a fun event (for you, the Fair) as the last place you saw your mom is a very nice memory! And I LOVE you having an elephant's ear for her lol

**Marigold2** · 08-28-2010, 10:13 PM

Thank you. It was very hard for me to go back that first time but I know she would want me to go. In fact I am sure she wanted me to go every year and see the animals, she so enjoyed it that last time. I remember how the sheep and goats loved her.
She died in 94 but I miss her so much. Every day I miss my mom.
I was so lucky to have such a kind sweet little mommy. Only 5.1 and about 97 lbs she was as small as she was good and kind. Even with all the bad in her life she would look to the positive.
Funny how some people can go through hell and back and come out kind, smart and sane and some become evil and murder.

Originally Posted by Freedom

I think having a fun event (for you, the Fair) as the last place you saw your mom is a very nice memory! And I LOVE you having an elephant's ear for her lol

**Bonny** · 08-29-2010, 08:34 AM

Marigold what are those elephant ears? Sorry to read about your mom. She was a tiny petite lady like my mom, same as your mom a tiny person with a big

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You were a country girl so got to experience life on the good old farm. I was a city girl & ended up out in the country on a farm. The love of horses is the cause of it, along with our boys going to a country school.