Worse, 16 days until fair week.
Fair week? You don't like the fair?
LOL...great minds and all that. . . .
I've always loved the fair but of course won't be going this year--don't get the staples out until the day after the fair closes and still don't have a lot of stamina built back up yet.
The most fun we've ever had at a fair though was the summer we lived in West Virginia and Hombre was one of several photographers commissioned to photograph the Virginia State Fair. A small fair but so much fun complete with harness racing and all kinds of quirky and unique events.
One of the most fascinating events was the Sheep Lead Contest. That spring every woman competing had to shear a sheep she had raised from a lamb. She then had to spin the wool into yarn, dye the yarn to whatever colors she planned to use, weave the yarn into cloth, and then use the cloth to sew herself an outfit that she had designed herself and wore at the fair while leading the sheep. And the outfits were absolutely gorgeous. The number of skills that went into that one event were just amazing to me.